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Sustainable Business Support

When should I start thinking about sustainability in my business?

You don’t need to wait until your business is bigger, greener or more established to start thinking about sustainability. The most effective changes are often the simplest. By taking small, practical steps now, you can reduce costs, improve efficiency and build a more resilient business for the future.

Our sustainable business support courses are designed to fit around your working day, with options in the evenings and during the day, giving you practical tools, hands-on learning, and a supportive community of like-minded people.

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Make sustainability part of your business

Here’s what we offer:

Sustainable Masterclasses

Our sustainable masterclasses offer you the chance to delve into a specific area of making your business greener and stronger. From “Turn Your Green Story Into an Asset” to “Make ‘Going Green’ Work for Your Business”, our experts will show you the practical benefits of sustainability for your business.

No jargon. No overwhelm. Just real ideas you can actually use straight away.

Sustainability Clinic

We also offer one-to-one support for small businesses, community groups and organisations across Wales.
Looking to reduce waste, save money, strengthen your community impact or simply work out where to start with sustainability?

This is not a workshop or a lecture. It’s a practical conversation focused on your own challenges, opportunities and next steps.

5-9 Club Programme

Our 5-9 Club also has sustainable business support baked into it! It’s a dynamic 8-week evening programme to help you uncover your potential, spark ideas, and explore possibilities, even if you’re not sure what direction you want to take yet.

This is all about discovering what works for you, gaining clarity, and taking meaningful next steps.

Grow Course

An 8-week course (evening or day options) for those ready to push boundaries and take their business or career to the next level.

From scaling your business to sharpening your leadership skills, each week brings expert insights, practical learning, and the chance to showcase your progress. Think of it as your launchpad for growth.

Join Welsh ICE to learn, connect, and take your next step in a safe, supportive, and inspiring environment. View our sustainable business support events below!

Sustainability Masterclass

Make “Going Green” Work for Your Business

The Environment Centre, Swansea – 23rd June

To sign up and find out more details just click the link!

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Sustainability Masterclass

Turn Your Green Story Into an Asset Masterclass

The Environment Centre, Swansea – 30th June

To sign up and find out more details just click the link!

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Sustainability Masterclass

Turn Green Ideas Into Action

The Environment Centre, Swansea – 7th July

To sign up and find out more details just click the link!

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Funding

Some of the above projects are funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025.

The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK, investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus

Hear from past cohorts

Zoë Gable

It was exciting to be in a room filled with people like me, all of us with a passion to be entrepreneurs and a desire to help each other and the world.

I hope I can look back in a few years and come across some of these businesses that I was there to witness at the very beginning

Tracy Kinsella-Evans

I completed the Welsh ICE 5-9 Club (an 8-week after-hours, bit-sized, business course). Fantastic course content, inspirational, engaging, and relatable speakers, who have practical experience to draw from, as business owners themselves.

Welsh ICE is a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community and everyone associated with the organisation wants to do all they can to help you succeed.

Met wonderful, like-minded people on the course, all with different business ideas and at various stages of their journey.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone with a business idea or those at the initial stages of their business journey, as it will give you the fundamentals and transferable knowledge and tools to help build a successful business.

LJ Jan

I completed the 5 to 9 Club run by Welsh Ice. It was so much more than I expected. It really helped me clarify so many things: who my client is, how to communicate with them, all the business-related ‘back of house’ things. I feel like this course really helped for all the scattered things to come together. I feel I know what I need to do now. It also helped me overcome some blocks that were preventing me from moving forward with some things, especially in relations to marketing. The whole programme is very comprehensive.

The whole community is brilliant. Everyone’s really dedicated, knowledgeable and are genuinely rooting for you. Another thing I really loved was that it isn’t the ‘traditional’ suited, booted and uptight kind of people but very down-to-earth, easy going and approachable. I felt like I fit right in.

Cathy Groves

The 5-9 club is an absolutely fantastic course for people starting a new business. Each of the 8 weeks different speakers come in to talk about different topic areas. They provide exactly what you need to know and how to go about it – everything was so relevant and useful. You get the recording and slides each week, so you can go back through it at a later date. The speakers and Welsh ICE staff are fab, as were the location and environment.

I cannot recommend this highly enough. I was a bit gutted as I couldn’t get to do my pitch, and attend the night out at the end due to being on holidays, so may attend again!