Events for Jan 2025 and beyond
January can be challenging for many of us as we recover from the Christmas break and face paying our tax liabilities and bills.
Many exciting events are happening in January and beyond here in Surrey to cheer everyone up.
These events are designed to help you achieve your 2025 goals and New Year’s resolutions and meet other Surrey businesses working towards their sustainability goals.
Green Monday
Something big is celebrating a day of sustainability-focused events on 20 January 2025.
There is a great mix of in-person and online events.
Please see Something Big’s website for more details.
https://somethingbig.co.uk/green-monday-a-day-of-sustainability-focused-events/
Workshop
Carbon Reduction Planning and Sustainability for Small Business Workshop at Switchfoot Towers – on 28 Jan 2025 and will be run again during B Corp month (25 March 2025)
The Switchfoot team have a fun way to explore decarbonisation and can help you start to build a plan for free.
Bring your decarbonisation questions for the team.
Tickets are available on Ticket Tailor
https://buytickets.at/switchfootaccounting/1466478
Myth Busting
The Surrey Chambers is hosting an online session which aims to Bust the 10 Top Sustainability & Climate Change Myths on 30 January 2025
For tickets, please see Surrey Chamber’s website.
Green investments
From Savings to Solutions: Making Your Money Work for You and the Planet at Zero Carbon Guildford on 12 February 2025
Come find out how to make your money work for you and the planet. The Switchfoot team will share their experience of making the biggest difference you can with your money and investments.
Make My Money Matter estimates that “making your pension green is 21x more powerful at cutting your carbon than giving up flying, going veggie and switching energy providers.”
Bring all your pension and sustainability questions for the team.
Tickets are available on the Zero Carbon Guildford website
System Thinking
For B Corp month (March 2025) – B Local Surrey is hosting a half-day workshop by the School of System Change, followed by a social meeting on 6 March 2025. This introductory course is for leaders of Certified B Corporations with links to Surrey to help understand system thinking and how to use it to create impactful change. The course will be professionally facilitated by and hosted at Zero Carbon Guildford. Subsidised tickets will be just £100.
Please contact Seb Elwell at Switchfoot Wealth for more information and/or to request to participate.
Other Events
It would be great to see you at these events and let us know your action points as a result of attending them.
Please let us know if you are running any events in the area or if there are any other events you would like to see in 2025.