promoting positive business
What is Blue Patch?
We’re a friendly sustainable business community that puts people and planet first.
A non-profit organisation, we focus 100% on sustainable development.
We promote positive business through our marketing campaigns, events and Positive Shopping, our mini-guide and our retail collaborations.
Free sustainability training and workshops
We provide a supported programme, workshops and mentoring.
Just starting out? Blue Patch’s Let’s Do Net Zero programme gets the basics under your belt. Course includes how to measure and reduce carbon emissions and waste and create an environmental impact page for your company website. Join the Let’s Do Net Zero programme for free when you become a member.
Enjoy our monthly interactive workshops Sharing and Solving Challenges Together led by chartered environmentalist and mentor Alice Doyle. The workshops bring members together to learn and to co-create solutions in fun-packed, friendly sessions.
What are the benefits?
- Showcase your business on bluepatch.org, the sustainable directory
- Be a member of a national non-profit organisation and back sustainable development
- Join our interactive workshops ‘Sharing and Solving Challenges Together’
- Take positive steps towards reducing environmental impact with Blue Patch’s Let’s Do Net Zero programme
- Receive free social media and blog posts
- Enter the annual sustainability awards
- Advertise in Positive Shopping
- Connect with like-minded business owners
We build partnerships
Blue Patch is all about connections. We help members to become museum sponsors, find partners for funding bids, collaborate to put on exhibitions and to be represented at trade fairs. Members regularly receive donated materials from the Royal Ballet & Opera, fostering the circular economy and reducing waste. Blue Patch fosters collaboration to help members to reduce costs and share skills and materials – we are a sustainable community.
Blue Patch standards
The Blue Patch directory is curated. We champion climate-conscious businesses, great design, natural materials, organic production, heritage skills and cutting-edge innovation. We also welcome accredited service-providers. We’d love to hear about your business.
Larger businesses
Larger businesses, including suppliers and outlets must have accreditations appropriate to their sector and meet Blue Patch’s ethical policy (updated policy due 2025). Larger companies may become Patrons or Sponsors and support the work of the charity. Tell us about your business.
Join Blue Patch : the future starts here
Please get in touch with Margy Newens if you’d like to know more about membership: +44 (0)207 738 7267 joinus@bluepatch.org
Member |
Silver Patron |
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|---|---|---|
| Benefits | ||
| Directory listing | Yes | Yes |
| Posting on social media | Yes | Yes |
| Net Zero training programme | Yes | Yes |
| Sustainability Awards | Enter free | Enter free |
| Interactive workshops (monthly, online) | Yes | Yes |
| Opportunities for partnerships and networking | Yes | Yes |
| Additional contribution to support Blue Patch’s mission | Yes | |
Testimonials
Net Zero training
Blue Patch’s workshop was very insightful. It was great to hear about ESG and the impact it will have on businesses. It was also great to interact and learn from other attendees. The session was eye-opening and I would highly recommend it to others.
Kemi, entrepreneur
Our partner network
Manchester Art Gallery is very happy to be hosting Blue Patch at the gallery, as part of our drive to support a more sustainable and ethical economy and switch to an ecologically sound way of life. The gallery has always had a role as a kind of ‘regulator valve’ as Manchester has grown from a town to a super city, championing the role of both ethics and aesthetics in the development of a healthy society. Manchester has set a zero carbon target for 2038 and this project underlines our commitment to achieving this goal, and at the same time supports the growth of community owned green energy across the land.
Alistair Hudson, Director of Manchester Art Gallery, 2018 – 2022.
Ruskin reminds manufacturers that the things they make and how they make them determines the nature of everyone’s world. The attention to thoughtful manufacture by Blue Patch makers makes them champions of social justice and environmental responsibility. That they achieve this by creating products of inspiring beauty is all the more remarkable. We are delighted to have Blue Patch at Brantwood.
Howard Hull, Director, Brantwood, 2024
In 2023 we applied for an Innovate UK grant. As a requirement for the application, we required a large company to partner with us. Blue Patch made introductions to the correct people in a very short space of time. As a result we won the grant. It has been a great journey which started with a simple phone call 🙂 Thank you Blue Patch
Nishant, Member since 2022
Well done Blue Patch for being on the leading edge of the curve and thanks for promoting Laura’s Loom. I have to say of all the groups I’ve joined, the only group that I feel really cares about my business is Blue Patch. You’re always finding ways to help promote your members in a way that I’ve never experienced with any other marketing group. It makes being a member more than worthwhile, so thanks for that too.
Laura, Laura’s Loom. Member since 2017
Frequently Asked Questions
Blue Patch recognises that its members are unique and that pathways towards greater sustainability will vary depending upon the type of business, its resources and progress to date. We fully support members on their journey.
Blue Patch is not an accreditation or accreditation body.
If you would like further information you can contact us on joinus@bluepatch.org
tel. +44 (0)207 738 7267
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