An archive of recent articles from the ESTA Members Newsletter
An introduction from our latest ESTA member:
You Co-op Business Solution
You Co-op Business Solution
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Your Co-op Business Solution is proud to be the latest member of ESTA. We provide
a suite of solutions that allow you to hit your sustainability goals whilst being cost effective. Including; - Climate positive home broadband - 100% renewable energy from small scale, community solar, wind and hydro farms - Cloud first business communications & climate positive business connectivity - Fairphone 4 – the world’s most sustainable smartphone - E-mopeds and electric vehicles salary sacrifice schemes |
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We can help you do it all and we are with you all the way.
ESTA members, did you know that from 2025, the world of telecoms will change dramatically with Openreach switching off the analogue network. Let us guide you through this starting with a free 1 hour telecoms consultation, ensuring its always
business as usual.
Find out more by simply filling out this form adding ‘ESTA member’ in Agent Name: broadband.yourcoop.coop/agentenquiry and a member of our experienced team will be in touch soon.
ESTA members, did you know that from 2025, the world of telecoms will change dramatically with Openreach switching off the analogue network. Let us guide you through this starting with a free 1 hour telecoms consultation, ensuring its always
business as usual.
Find out more by simply filling out this form adding ‘ESTA member’ in Agent Name: broadband.yourcoop.coop/agentenquiry and a member of our experienced team will be in touch soon.
The Continuing Evolution of ESTA
Apart from the Business+ Network, ESTA is, in its inimitable slow-organic fashion, developing two other bowstrings: ESTA Green Door Community, which is a residential-household focussed application of the ESTA collaborative ethos and four bottom line framework, and ESTA Local Loop, which focuses on assisting the development of local circular supply and demand chains. This means that the membership will become even more diverse, over time. the ambition is to play a role in creating a fully integrated living, working and learning community in which everyone is increasingly free to find their own place within it and to make their own contribution to it. It sounds ambitious but, quite frankly, I don’t think we have any other choice.
Apart from the Business+ Network, ESTA is, in its inimitable slow-organic fashion, developing two other bowstrings: ESTA Green Door Community, which is a residential-household focussed application of the ESTA collaborative ethos and four bottom line framework, and ESTA Local Loop, which focuses on assisting the development of local circular supply and demand chains. This means that the membership will become even more diverse, over time. the ambition is to play a role in creating a fully integrated living, working and learning community in which everyone is increasingly free to find their own place within it and to make their own contribution to it. It sounds ambitious but, quite frankly, I don’t think we have any other choice.
Invitation to Join a Food Futures World Cafe Event
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FoodFutures is launching a five year project called Closing Loops funded through the National Lottery Climate Action Fund. Closing Loops will support community-led action and local initiatives to transform waste into a valuable resource whilst cultivating a circular and regenerative local economy.
To celebrate the launch of Closing Loops, FoodFutures is hosting four “world cafes” in the heart of communities around our district. A “world cafe” brings people together for short, focused conversations around a specific topic. The outcome of these conversations will shape the work of the Closing Loops project over the next five years. The conversations will be followed by a two-course meal cooked by a community chef using locally produced, seasonal and surplus food. |
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Please join the Closing Loops team for a pleasant evening of great food and inspiring conversations to celebrate the launch of the project. All are welcome to join in and share ideas around the Closing Loops themes:
- Growing, cooking and eating local, seasonal food
- Composting, surplus food and reducing food waste
- Reimagining a circular and regenerative local economy
Launch of ESTA Local Loop Mutual Clearing Club
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At the Lancaster business Expo, on the 30th of September, an ESTA team launched the ESTA Local Loop platform.
This is a mutual credit invoice clearing system that, when fully operational, will allow anyone trading in the Lancaster and Morecambe area to potentially offset their invoice payments, using a clever bit of software that has been operating in Slovenia for the past thirty years. The idea is that, if you are part of any local supply chain that loops back on itself, this can be automatically identified in such a way that no money needs to change hands between the businesses/organisations in the circle. |
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It’s the kind of stuff I have been talking about for years and now, with our partners, we have a platform that can make this a reality. for more information watch this three-minute video.
Very positive feedback from Cumbria Universities SDG Knowledge Exchange
On 14th September, ESTA played part-host to a University of Cumbria Event, along with David Murphy, Justin Larner, Claire Benson, and Joanna Murphy.
The aim was to make local businesses, organisations, and community leaders more aware of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can play, and are already playing, an active role in helping us achieve these goals.
The general feedback was very positive, and I was particularly pleased with the way that our SDG version of the "ESTA Game" worked in forming a deeper and more active connection to the goals amongst participants. A big thank-you shout out for Ulrike Zeshan for coming up with the idea for and helping develop the game.
The intention is that the work that the University of Cumbria team and ESTA partners have begun will continue and will play a role in helping move our community in an increasingly sustainable, equitable and prosperous direction.
The aim was to make local businesses, organisations, and community leaders more aware of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can play, and are already playing, an active role in helping us achieve these goals.
The general feedback was very positive, and I was particularly pleased with the way that our SDG version of the "ESTA Game" worked in forming a deeper and more active connection to the goals amongst participants. A big thank-you shout out for Ulrike Zeshan for coming up with the idea for and helping develop the game.
The intention is that the work that the University of Cumbria team and ESTA partners have begun will continue and will play a role in helping move our community in an increasingly sustainable, equitable and prosperous direction.