Accelerate SME Climate Action
in your Local Authority
Giki Actions facilitates climate action across your whole business community. Your SMEs build practical plans, and you get the evidence.
Every SME is different.
Giki Actions gives you a way to help them all.
It's not easy to empower your whole SME community at once, but with Giki Actions you can support everyone, regardless of size, sector or starting point.
Hands off, cost effective, and tailorable to your needs.
“Our first workshop with Giki Actions was over-subscribed in a few days. Local businesses from defence, to manufacturing, to fruit farms, rail maintenance and luxury spas joined to build their own climate action plans, and the reporting outputs have helped us hit our targets.”
How it works for you
From sign-up to evidence in three stages
Our platform enables every SME in your network to quickly and easily build and implement Climate Action Plans, and provides you with the evidence you need.
Every business in your network builds its own climate action plan — through group workshops, 1:1s or self-service, depending on your programme.
SMEs put their plans into practice with templates, how-to guides and expert resources — while you see engagement and progress across the whole programme.
Insight reports show what your businesses have achieved: emissions reduced, actions completed, and their future plans and priorities.
How it works for SMEs
The SMEs' Experience
In under an hour, each SME builds a tailored climate action plan to implement and track, with relevant actions for every sector, healthcare to hospitality to retail.
Complete Quick-start Questionnaire
SMEs answer a short set of questions about their business: size, sector, business functions, and current sustainability activity. Based on their answers, our algorithm finds the most relevant, impactful actions from our huge library.
Get Impactful, Relevant Actions
Each SME works through our recommendations, covering operational emissions, supply chain, and employee engagement, choosing the actions that are most appropriate for their business.
Publish a Living, Actionable Plan
Every action comes with the resources needed to implement it: guides, templates, and expert support, so SMEs can get started immediately without needing specialist knowledge. SMEs can add and refine their plan as they go.
What SMEs are saying about Giki Actions
“What I really valued was how it breaks down something that can feel overwhelming into manageable, structured steps.”
“The workshop was really good! So practical and easy. We had our carbon reduction plan done within the hour.”
“I'm absolutely blown away. We have been trying for years to set out a plan. Thank you so much. One of the best and most useful workshops we have ever done.”
“Giki have SO many brilliant tools and advice sheets, whether you're just starting out or want some direction on current progress. Highly recommend!”
“Exceeded all expectations, brilliantly efficient and relatable to my organisation.”
“If you are looking for a powerful tool to enhance your sustainability efforts then Giki Actions is brilliant.”
“What I really valued was how it breaks down something that can feel overwhelming into manageable, structured steps.”
“The workshop was really good! So practical and easy. We had our carbon reduction plan done within the hour.”
“I'm absolutely blown away. We have been trying for years to set out a plan. Thank you so much. One of the best and most useful workshops we have ever done.”
“Giki have SO many brilliant tools and advice sheets, whether you're just starting out or want some direction on current progress. Highly recommend!”
“Exceeded all expectations, brilliantly efficient and relatable to my organisation.”
“If you are looking for a powerful tool to enhance your sustainability efforts then Giki Actions is brilliant.”
Why Choose Giki Actions?
Giki Actions is the perfect Climate Action solution for your Local Authority
Scalable
Reach every business in your area with one programme. Our workshops and platform allow companies across sectors and sizes to each build personal, actionable plans.
Flexible
It's your programme. We'll design it to your needs, to match your budget, and provide the impact evidence and insights you require.
Expert-led & hands-off for you
Giki Actions is built and run by sustainability experts. A credible, expert-delivered programme on a modern platform designed for flexible high impact delivery.
The support your SMEs need
Every business is unique. With Giki Actions, every plan is unique too, with recommendations aligned to each SME's specific situation, needs and goals.
Evidenced
Evidence your support programme with regular insight reports on the impact across your business community.
Cost-effective
Giki Actions is extremely time and cost effective for your team. The Giki team provides everything you need.
Trusted by councils across the UK
Feedback from councils, authorities, and the networks that support them.
“I love how practical this is. People and business leaders can often leave sustainability events feeling a bit overwhelmed. The Giki Actions approach is different. It is really practical and enables local businesses to give just one hour of their time and leave with a concrete action plan.”
“Our first workshop with Giki Actions was over-subscribed in a few days. Local businesses from defence, to manufacturing, to fruit farms, rail maintenance and luxury spas joined to build their own climate action plans, and the reporting outputs have helped us hit our targets.”
“I joined a Giki Actions workshop and was really impressed by the power of it. As a result we hosted a workshop for West Yorkshire businesses to reignite focus and momentum on taking action. Feedback so far has been excellent.”
Recent Case Study
How Staffordshire County Council took action
See how SBEN, run by Staffordshire County Council, used Giki Actions to help businesses from fruit farms to fudge producers build their own sustainability plans and reported on the impact.
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The proof is in the numbers
Programme Pricing
We know every local authority is different and that getting real value matters.
We will work with you to build the perfect programme for your local authority. Here are some examples of the support we provide.
Live sessions (Workshops and 1-1s)
We handle everything before the day: a planning call, custom promotional materials and full workshop prep and briefing with your team.
A live facilitated session where every participant builds their own personalised climate action plan using the Giki Actions platform.
Participants keep platform access after the session, and you receive a full insight report to evidence engagement and outcomes.
Giki Actions Platform
Unlimited seatsEvery business in your community gets ongoing access to the Giki Actions platform to enhance and report on their plan after the workshop. You can also provide them additional support to implement if required.
Evidence
Regular insight reports to evidence your business support programme and make the case to your funders.
Ongoing Support
Optional add-ons to extend your programme, champion it internally, and reach more businesses.
Mission-led. Evidence-backed.
Giki is a mission-led B Corp, founded in 2017 by sustainability leaders James and Jo Hand. A SME Climate Hub partner, funded by the UK Government's DESNZ, and an advisor to UK net-zero standards bodies. We've helped 800+ companies worldwide, from SMEs to global market leaders, with 150,000+ people taking over a million climate actions through our platforms. Learn more about who we are.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a programme cost?
Programmes start from £3,950 +VAT. Every local authority is different, so we'll work with you to build the right package for your area and budget. Get in touch for a quote.
How much work is it for our team?
Very little. The main thing you do is invite local businesses. We handle registration, delivery and reporting, and provide ready-made copy and imagery to help you promote the programme.
Is there a cost to participating businesses?
No. There's no cost to the SMEs taking part. Your programme covers their access so every business in your area can build a plan for free and if you choose to support them with implementation, we can help with that too with the premium plan.
Do we need any sustainability expertise?
None at all. Giki is built and run by sustainability experts and delivers the whole programme. You don't need any in-house sustainability knowledge to run it.
What evidence do we get back?
You receive insight reports covering what companies are adding to plans, key challenges and priorities, and survey insights, to evidence your programme to funders and stakeholders.
800+ Organisations use Giki to take climate action
Join a workshop to learn more
Get in touch and we'll invite you to the next workshop so you can see the Platform in action and ask any questions you have.
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