1. Sustainability Manager
RNLI
&
Sustainability
Anna Frizzell
Sustainability Manager

2. Agenda
RNLI Introduction
What does “Sustainability” mean to us?
Environment - Where are we now?
The future?

3. RNLI - What do we do?

4. RNLI - Facts and figures
4,600 volunteer crew members
Over 20,000 fundraising & supporter volunteers
£140 million per year to run
2012 income was £166.4 million
83p from every £1 goes directly to the rescue service.

5. Lifeboats 237 lifeboat stations 346 lifeboats 8,346 launches
2012 figures
Shannon ALB
costs £2m ea
7,964 people rescued
Average 22 per day

6. Flood Rescue 200 crew in UK Lifeguards 1,000 in 2013 Sea safety
Education
4,000 crew
Plus
Training
Senegal, Cameroon, Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Mauritius, Thailand and the Philippines.
8 countries
International

7. Economics People Corporate Social Environment Responsibility (CSR)
Sustainability
Economics
CSR - Being a good employer and neighbour Basing assessments on GRI indicators. (Inc sector supplements for charities)
H&S - H&S team
Diversity & Equal – OD team
Discrimination - OD team
Employment – OD team & People department.
Retention and return to work – OD & People department.
Community engagement – Vol & fundraising
Economics – Using our buying power wisely and making choices that don’t damage people or the planet
Procurement – Local suppliers, suppliers env’ & social criteria – Are teddies / clothing made by 12 year olds in sweat shops?
Investments – How ethical are our investments? (We do have some sust’ criteria but how robust) Often perception that either or whereas in fact many ethical / responsible investments doing as well if not better than most of the marketplace.
- Transparent financial reporting
Environment – Making sure we don’t pollute, we use resources wisely and comply with the law. I will go into the environment in more detail in a minute.

8. Rescuing Now Lifesaving Indefinitely
For me personally this is what true sustainability for the RNLI is all about.
It is “Future Proofing” the organisation to ensure we can keep doing what we do indefinitely and to show people we make best use of the time, resources and funding they give us.

9. Purpose
For the RNLI to be recognised as a charity that has fully integrated sustainable thinking and ways of working into our core business, with measureable improvements being made against all of our sustainability indicators.
This is what is proposed as the purpose of sustainability at the RNLI
Currently awaiting approval from management & trustees of Sustainability indicators and measures we will be using.
Once these are agreed I will be having discussions with the management teams to work out together and agree what improvements we can realistically achieve.

10. To create more value than we take
Vision
To create more value than we take
This is the proposed vision and again it is awaiting approval.
This basically means that rather than aiming to be a bit less bad we aim to be a real force for good.
This is a long term vision i.e. over the next 20 years or so, however other enlightened organisations are also aiming for this so we are not alone.
Aiming for Net Positive

11. Environmental Management
ISO 14001
Environmental Management
standard
We were re certified to ISO in July 2013
However my review has shown that real progress has stalled.

12. Environment Energy Transport Waste Water Materials use
Legal compliance
Energy – Electricity & Gas – Two providers Inenco and Energia. Big and dispersed estate. Refining system for measurement and monitoring. Converting to Carbon and reporting qrtly to ET
Energy renewables - £100K saved in last 12 months
Transport – Cars, vans/trucks/lorries, RWC, inflatables. Reviewing our fuel card provider and reporting data. Flights and ferrys. Will form part of our footprint and qtrly report.
Waste – Not currently collecting and collating waste data accurately. Big piece of work next 6 to 12 months. Diverse loactions with different types of waste. Kit, paper, food, oils, fluids to do with boats and vehicles.
Water – in and out, controlled water and pollution prevention. Backwash from training pool.
Materials use – paper, batteries, fuels, equipment
Legal compliance – Pollution prevention, water, contaminated land, air pollutants etc.

13. This is our current EMS toolbox which is broken down into different functions
This was developed by my predecessor but will be changing to a different operating system soon.

14. This was developed by my predecessor but will be changing to a different operating system soon.

15. The future
Short term -
Setting up measurement and monitoring for energy waste, water and agreeing targets /objectives with managers.
Also ensuring we are legally compliant and that each function knows what they need to do and where to get the right information.
Getting good ideas from RNLI people on what we could / should be doing environmentally
Medium term –
Improving our performance and collecting evidence to demonstrate continuous environmental improvement
Longer term –
Aim to be carbon neutral and then “Net Positive”?

16. Energy – Site review id £180k Waste – Lifejacket recycling
Future
Renewables on going
15 PV installed 140MWh (£100k)
12 Heat pumps so far
1 Wind Turbine
Energy – Site review id £180k
Waste – Lifejacket recycling
Heat pumps
Currently 12 commissioned, with 3 or 4 more due for commissioning this year.
Wind Turbines
Aith is the only turbine, and is currently running well. Dec 2012 – May 2013 generated 11MWh. Earning over £3k, saving a further £1k. Despite having had several months of down time this year. PV
Currently 15 installations, totalling 150kWp installed capacity. Dec 2012 – May 2013 generated 60MWh. Earning £22k, saving a further £5.4k. On target for 140MWh this year, which is in line with predictions.
The 16th installation (Portsmouth) was completed last week.
Next set of readings are due end of this month, which will likely be in the region of £25k of earnings. This next set of readings will take the total benefit (earned and saved) for PV so far to well over £100k.

17. Thank you for your time
Any questions?

18. Contact details
Anna Frizzell – Sustainability Manager Based in Poole HQ site