Carbon Reduction Plan
Publication date: 10.06.2025
Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Shared Health Foundation is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2035.
Baseline Emissions Footprint
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.
Baseline Year: 2025
Additional Details relating to the Baseline Emissions calculations:
Shared Health Foundation no previous reporting or baseline for carbon emissions. This is the first time the organisation has committed to reducing its CO2.
Baseline year emissions:
EMISSIONS
Scope 1
TOTAL (tCO2e)
Shared Health Foundation does not have any direct company carbon emissions. This is calculated as the organisation does not own any company facilities or vehicles.
Scope 2
Shared Health Foundation does not purchase any electricity and heating for own its own use.
Scope 3
(included Sources)
Leased Assets
Shared Health Foundation lease a small office in Earl Business Centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester. In the past 10 years, the building recently went through a full renovation by replacing all the fluorescent lights to high efficacy LEDs and converting the low efficiency heating system to an air source heat pump system. This increased the EPC from 95 D to 44 B. The 3rd floor, where Shared Health lease one room, is rated C.
https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/energy-certificate/8188-0953-5377-8782-2781
The combined building CO2 emission from the 3rd floor is 22.46 kgCO2/m2 per year.
Shared Health’s office is 107 sqm so our estimated CO2 emissions from electricity and gas is 2,403kg. We are waiting on the landlord to provide measured energy data to update this figure to be more accurate.
Total leased assets: 2,403kg per year
Commuting
Shared Health Foundation has a small team who all commute to the office mostly by car. The combined total of weekly commutable miles is 650, x50 weeks (minus 2 week company shutdown over Christmas) totals 9,759.428. This total is calculated by the average type of car (medium, petrol) at 0.30029 kg CO2 conversion rates from the Gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/greenhouse-gas-reporting-conversion-factors-2020
Over the next 5 years we are reducing our carbon footprint by implanting the following policies;
- Promoting public transport where necessary. One of our team already cycles into the office.
- Car sharing where necessary. 2 of our employees already car share from the same area in Manchester.
- Introducing flexible work policies to work from home and/or travel at less congested times.
- Encouraging employees to invest in hybrid and electric vehicles.
Total commuting: 9,759.428
Rail travel
Shared Health employees, on average, take 20 trips to London Euston for meetings. This is a total of 4,150.76 miles which produces 13kg of CO2.
Total rail travel for business: 13kg per year
Total Emissions
12,175.428
Current Emissions Reporting
Reporting Year: 2030
EMISSIONS
TOTAL (tCO2e)
Scope 1
Shared Health Foundation has no future plan to own company vehicles or facilities so our emissions for Scope 1 is unlikely to change.
Scope 2
Shared Health Foundation has no future plan to purchase any electricity and heating for own its own use.
Scope 3
(included Sources)
Shared Health Foundation is encouraging employees to swap their main commuting car to a vehicle that doesn’t produce carbon emissions, such as electric vehicles. We are looking at an EV salary sacrifice scheme so employees can lease an electric car through the company. If this is successful, we anticipate 20% of the employees to adopt this policy. In the meantime, the organisation is looking to support employees to car share and use public transport where necessary.
Total Emissions
10,116
Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress to achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets.
- Car sharing for commuting
- Using public transport where necessary
- Encouraging flexible working arrangements to ease capacity in office consumption
- Encouraging swapping commuting vehicle to EV vehicle. We are looking into an EV salary sacrifice scheme for the organisation.
We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 7,700kg tCO2e by 2030. This is a reduction of 20%
Progress against these targets can be seen in the graph below:
Carbon Reduction Projects
Completed Carbon Reduction Initiatives
The following environmental management measures and projects have been completed or implemented since the 2025 baseline. The carbon emission reduction achieved by these schemes equate to 2,400kg tCO2e, a 20%ge reduction against the 2025 baseline and the measures will be in effect when performing the contract.
Shared Health Foundation has not previously had a carbon reduction plan or has committed to reducing it’s emissions. This is the first plan the organisation has put in place and is committed to reducing its emissions through performing this contract.
Shared Health Foundation is encouraging employees to swap their main commuting car to a vehicle that doesn’t produce carbon emissions, such as electric vehicles. We looking at an EV salary sacrifice scheme so employees can lease an electric car through the company. If this is successful we anticipate 20% of the employees to adopt this policy.
Declaration and Sign Off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard[1] and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting[2].
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard[3].
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors (or equivalent management body).
[1]https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard
[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-conversion-factors-for-company-reporting
[3]https://ghgprotocol.org/standards/scope-3-standard
Signed on behalf of the Supplier:
Laura Neilson
Date: 10.06.2025