Bury Free Press West Suffolk Business Awards 2023 Green/Environment Award winner: EcoCarriers BSE
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00:02 - I'm joined by David Fisher, Libby Ranzetta,
00:06 and Rowan Wilson from Eco-Carriers Beresford Edmonds.
00:09 Winners of the ARC Shopping Centre
00:11 Green Environment Award.
00:14 Congratulations to you all.
00:16 What does it mean to be winners here tonight?
00:19 - Absolutely fantastic.
00:20 I mean, brilliant for what we do in Beresford Edmonds
00:23 and what we do across West Suffolk as well.
00:25 So brilliant, absolutely fantastic.
00:27 - What is it exactly that you do across West Suffolk and Bury?
00:31 - We do zero emission deliveries.
00:33 So we deliver stuff by bicycle and e-cargo bike,
00:37 but we also run a lot of cycling community projects.
00:40 So we teach kids to ride bikes.
00:42 We have a bike library.
00:43 We cycle with children to school in our bike train.
00:46 Yeah, anything cycling, that's us.
00:48 - You're a not-for-profit social enterprise.
00:50 Is that right?
00:51 What does that mean in practice?
00:53 - So it means, well,
00:55 we're a community benefit society technically,
00:57 which means we've got a trading arm and a community arm.
01:00 So any surplus trading profit we make
01:03 goes into our community projects.
01:04 So we think it's a very good way of working.
01:07 - And environment is at the heart of everything that you do,
01:11 presumably hence the award tonight.
01:13 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:14 Yeah, we use bicycles, electric assist bicycles
01:20 for everything we do.
01:21 So our emissions are low and our pollution is low.
01:25 Yeah, I mean, we're attempting to keep the fumes
01:29 in various environments as low as we can.
01:32 We just need more people to use us.
01:33 - Excellent.
01:34 Okay, well, congratulations to you all.
01:36 Well done.
01:37 - Thank you.
01:37 Thank you.
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