Maker Annual Report

Dear Green Maker

We would like you to report on how you are monitoring, managing, and reducing the environmental impact of your business/practice in the last 12 months. We are doing this to expand the community of environmentally aware makers, share best practices and develop/support each other where we face challenges in reducing our environmental impact.

This is an informal report that doesn't need to follow a particular structure. Below we have given some suggested headings in a template, which you are welcome to use, or you can provide your report in any other way you like.

If you choose to use this form, please note that when you click 'Submit' the form will be stored on our JotForm account and you will be emailed a copy.

We don’t expect everyone to be doing everything listed below, but they may give you some ideas for things you can impact. Please send us images too, if you can, as we would like to feature some makers throughout the year on the Green Maker pages to inspire and inform others.

Name

Business/practice name

Email

example@example.com

Craft/media

Description of your making/business activities

Please include a brief description of the materials, processes, what is made, how it is sold/exhibited

What methods are you using to monitor your use of resources?

Water, energy, materials transport, printing, waste? Carbon measurement tools, meters, manual recording of meter readings, etc.

Are you able to reduce the environmental impact of your place of work?

Do you have a renewable energy supplier? What heating are you using? Is your place of work insulated? LED lighting? Use of water? Waste reusing/recycling?

How do you obtain your materials and what do you know about their source/manufacture and supply chain?

Have you considered carbon-neutral printing?

What energy is used to produce your work?

Is your energy supplier using renewable energies?

What waste is produced and what happens to the waste?

Could you waste be useful for others? Where appropriate, have you considered making your ‘waste’ available to others, such as off cuts, or biproducts, such as saw dust, packaging materials?

Do you package your work?

What materials do you use? Can you recycle waste materials?

How do you transport your work to customers/exhibitions?

Are there green transport options that you can use, or encourage your customers to use?

Do your customers/audience travel to you or shop/exhibition?

How far do they travel, by what means? Are sustainable transport options available?

Have you had the opportunity to communicate that you are part of the Green Maker Initiative or how you are reducing your environmental impact?

Are you displaying the Green Maker Initiative logo in your promotional materials? Have you communicated the issues to others in person, in writing at events or via other platforms?

Does your business/organisation have an environmental statement or policy? If yes, please can you share this with us.

Do you include this on your website? Is this shared with your colleagues or staff?

Tell us anything else that you are doing, please provide examples and send us pictures if possible!

NB: if sending pictures or supporting documents please email hello@makesouthwest.org.uk with subject line: [your name] GMI Report Supporting Documents

File Upload

Please upload any supporting documents or photos if you wish. Unless otherwise stated, we will assume that it is ok to share your photos on our GMI pages.

Maker Annual Report

Your details:

Your monitoring:

Your premises:

Your making:

Your distribution:

Your communication:

Other: