Becky Toal Wins the Diverse Business Award at the Enterprise Vision Awards 2023!

The Enterprise Vision Awards took place on the 29th September in the Blackpool Winter Gardens, the largest awards for women in business outside of London. Becky Toal CEO of Crowberry Consulting was delighted to be the winner for the Diverse Business Award saying, “We work hard to ensure our team is diverse and inclusive and offered many posts to international graduates over the years, we are also a signatory to the Employer Champion Scheme with Society for the Environment, Disability Confident and an Armed Forces Convenant Signatory. Winning this award means a lot to me and I hope it inspire others to focus on diversity and inclusion.”

Our MD Becky Toal was delighted to recently win the Inspirational Woman in STEM Awards presented at the House of Lords in London. The award and campaign aims to raise awareness of how few women are currently working in STEM and Construction in the UK. All winners of the award will be paired with a young female ambassador who is currently working in STEM to act as a coach/mentor for their career. The campaign which is supported by the Federation of Small Business and Jomas Associates follows the Alison Rose Review which concluded if more women worked in STEM and Construction that the UK Economy could grow by billions of GBP. Becky Toal said “I am over the moon to be recognised as a leading and inspirational woman working in STEM as I am to inspire the next generation of environmental and sustainability managers in the UK. I look forward to providing coaching/mentoring to one of the young ambassadors.”

Becky Toal MD and Founder of Crowberry Consulting Ltd has been honoured in this years ENDS Top 100 Power List of the UK’s most influential Environmental Professionals. Becky said “It is fantastic to be recognised in this way and also to celebrate all the folks on this list who work hard each day to protect the environment and prevent pollution, its a real honour indeed.”

The team at Crowberry Consulting Ltd recently signed up to an office lease at the iconic Guinness Enterprise Centre, Dublin, Ireland. We have many clients in the Republic of Ireland and have grown a EU client base over the last five years. The GEC accommodates a range of businesses from start ups to well established businesses and critically they have a new Sustainability Cluster. Becky Toal Managing Director said, “We are delighted to have a physical presence in Ireland to better serve our growing customer base across the EU. We are also excited to be a part of the GEC new Sustainability Cluster, which will support our clients even further.”

Our team recently visited the House of Commons and the House of Lords in London to visit the Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, who represents our area Chorley, Lancashire. The team discussed women in business and sustainability issues of relevance to the Speaker. Mary Toal Head of Quality and Customer Service said “This was a fantastic opportunity to discuss sustainability issues with the Speaker of the House and to promote women in business.”

Managing Director of Crowberry Consulting® Ltd – Enabling Sustainable Futures, Becky Toal, wins the Society for the Environment Award for Environmental Professional of the Year 2022!

The finalists were selected from an array of high calibre nominations, received for environmental professionals working in energy, agriculture, environmental management, water supply, transport, resources and waste, chemical engineering, the built environment, and more. Nominees also ranged from freelance to Directors working for multinational consultancies

Designed to recognise those outstanding individuals who have innovated, inspired, and have gone beyond what’s expected in their recent work to protect, preserve, or enhance the environment, there are two prestigious awards up for grabs:

• Environmental Professional of the Year
• Registrant Newcomer of the Year

In judging Becky to be the winner of this prestigious award, the judging panel noted her clear knowledge and leadership, excellent communication skills, and infectious passion for protecting the environment. Setting up and leading her own business Crowberry Consulting Ltd since 2006, in this time she has supported swathes of UK and EU based businesses to become more sustainable by implementing ISO environmental management systems, delivering innovative training courses, and giving back to a profession that has given her so much, by coaching and mentoring early career professionals. A career highlight was achieved in 2021, as Becky was appointed – in partnership with Arup – as Lead Sustainability Consultant of both G7 and COP26, with her work duly recognised as the events were awarded the ISO 20121 standard. All of this and more shows Becky as someone truly going above and beyond to protect the environment – and a worthy winner of the 2022 Environmental Professional of the Year award.

“I am truly delighted to be awarded Environmental Professional of the Year 2022, especially given the strength of the competition. This reflects the professionalism of the sector and how far the respect for our work has come over the years. To be the winner feels amazing and I hope to inspire the next generation of environmental managers, auditors, and consultants to work hard, go for their dreams and apply their skills and knowledge to continue to support protecting the environment. Thank you to the Society for the Environment for this recognition, it really means a great deal to me and my team at Crowberry Consulting.” Becky Toal, MD.

The Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards was held on 31^st March at the Mill Farm Sports Village to celebrate the success of apprenticeships and kick starters across the county.

Crowberry Consulting was the winner of the category SME Employer, for the county. As a Chorley based business, they have invested in apprenticeships for over 10 years offering a range of roles including Project Management, Digital Marketing, Business Administration and Team Leading.

Becky Toal Managing Director said “We are proud to have offered a range of quality apprenticeships since 2012 working with various local colleges in the North West. In 2017 we were recognised by the National Apprenticeship Services as a Top 100 Employer of apprenticeship, and in 2020 we won the North West Regional SME Employer of Apprenticeships. We are also a Lancashire Skills Pledge signatory and a Society for the Environment Employer Champion to promote the professional skills in our sector. As a sustainability consultancy we believe in learning and development and continued professional development for all our staff, it’s a delight to have won this Lancashire award”.

Nicola Adam, Editor of Lancashire Post said “These awards celebrate those who have grasped the opportunity and bloomed within their chosen apprenticeship, setting a solid base for their future while playing an invaluable role within industry. All the finalists and winners have been carefully selected by an independent judging panel, including the Head of Business Development at Blackpool and Fylde College, Sarah Hall, representatives from the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub and Group Marketing Manager at Porsche Centre Preston. Collectively the panel reviewed hundreds of nominations before selecting the winners and finalists”.

There was a total of 12 categories on the night, and many local colleges were represented. The host for the evening was Jordan Williams.

Crowberry Consulting® is sponsoring the newest category at the Enterprise Vision Awards – Sustainable Business. The EVAs is the North West premier business awards for women owned companies.

Established in 2011, the Enterprise Vision Awards have marked over a decade of glorious years celebrating the outstanding successes and achievements of the North West’s most talented female entrepreneurs.  Outside London, the EVAS are now the largest business awards dedicated solely to women. The awards distinguish those women who are leading the way in their industries or are building businesses that are not only judged on turnover, but creativity, ethics, passion and commitment.

The EVAS are open to all women in business in the North West including business owners, employees, CEOs and homeworkers, young entrepreneurs and silverpreneurs. You can enter yourself or nominate a woman who you believe deserves to be recognised for her outstanding work. The Sustainable Business Award recognises a business that has a product or service that can demonstrate real progress with sustainability be this environmental/social or economic over the last 12 months.

Crowberry Consulting – Enabling Sustainable Futures, was established in 2006 by Becky Toal a recognised sustainability professional with over 20 years business experience of delivering on sustainability.  Becky Toal Managing Director said “It’s a real joy to be sponsoring this vital category at the EVAS 2022, we look forward to meeting many fantastic women-owned businesses that have products or services that support genuine sustainability, and encourage them to apply via the link below.”

The awards themselves take place on 23^rd September 2022 at the iconic Empress Ballroom in The Winter Gardens, Blackpool.

To apply for the awards click here:- www.enterprisevisionawards.co.uk

Crowberry Consulting has been a member of the Lancashire Skills Pledge since it was launched a few years ago, our core commitments are to provide quality internships, placements and apprenticeships to upskill the workforce of Lancashire. This reflects our overall commitment to ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard. We are delighted to be a part of this key initiative ensuring that the team receives quality training with an Apprentice currently at Preston College and Sustainability Executive enrolled at Edge Hill University on a Level 4 Leadership Course. During the summer of 2022 we will also be providing more quality paid internships opportunities to work in sustainability.

Crowberry Consulting Ltd – Enabling sustainable futures, has won the 2022 National Undergraduate Employability Awards in London recognising their internships placed with University of Liverpool since 2017.

Becky Toal MD said: “We are delighted to have our project with University of Liverpool recognised in this way. As a SME business we annually take on undergraduates and internships including PhD students to support them into the world of work, we offer quality projects and placements to enhance their skills and knowledge so that they are genuinely work ready upon graduating. Crowberry Consulting is a Lancashire Skills Pledge Member and Society for the Environment Employer Champion as well as an Apprenticeship Champion, we are committed to training our team and that includes internships and placements. We look forward to continuing to work with the University of Liverpool into the future and would like to thank the team including Paul Cullinan and the careers and employability programme that supports SME businesses.”

The National Undergraduate Employability Awards is an annual awards for employers and programmes with Universities for the whole of the UK. It recognises the dedication, commitment and hard work of individuals and projects that upskill and support undergraduates across the board.

NUE Awards PR Info:

The winners of the 2022 National Undergraduate Employability Awards, organised by RateMyPlacement.co.uk, were announced on Friday 4th March at etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate, London.

Four hundred of the industry’s finest came together to celebrate the outstanding achievements of employers, universities and students in undergraduate work experience.

Special Guest Speaker and Co-host of the Awards, Hannah Mills, OBE inspired the audience with her very successful Olympic journey, becoming the most successful female sailor in Olympic history. She also talked about being an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sustainability Ambassador and how she launched the Big Plastic Pledge in 2019 – an athlete movement to change the way single use plastic is used in and beyond sport.