Our Roadmap to 2030
9 Sep 2025
Solihull College and University Centre: Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement Workshops
Lead Organisation Sustainability West Midlands Project Delivery team: Beck Collins (Project Manager) and Morgan Roberts (Project Support) Customer Solihull College…
Completed Project
9 Sep 2025
West Midlands Combined Authority: Local Investment in Natural Capital
Lead Organisation Finance Earth, leading a consortium with eftec, Accelar and Sustainability West Midlands Customer West Midlands Combined Authority Overview…
Completed Project
8 Apr 2025
Midlands Net Zero Hub: Midlands Climate Action Benchmark
A benchmark of local and combined authorities in the East and West Midlands on their progress with taking climate action, in order to provide advice, support and recommendations to help them improve and celebrate success
Completed Project
17 Jan 2025
Midlands Net Zero Hub: Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services Sector Refresh 2025
SWM and kMatrix were commissioned by the Midlands Net Zero Hub to conduct a refresh to the original Low Carbon Environmental Goods & Services (LCEGS) Sector study, giving an understanding of the current state of the sector in the Midlands, where support is needed to grow the sector, and how the sector has recovered following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Completed Project
3 Jan 2025
West Midlands Combined Authority: The economic impact of climate change
This project helped the WMCA to economically quantify the impacts that climate change could have on the area.
Completed Project
3 Jan 2025
West Midlands Combined Authority: Supporting them with their Adaptation Reporting Power submission
Using our experience of supporting organisations with climate change adaptation, SWM worked with AtkinsRéalis to support the WMCA in preparing a response to the Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP).
Completed Project
16 Aug 2024
Solihull College & University Centre: Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Planning
SWM carried out a stakeholder engagement programme with Solihull College & University Centre, ultimately supporting them to produce an updated and enhanced version of their Sustainability Delivery Plan.
Completed Project
21 Feb 2024
West Midlands Combined Authority: West Midlands Net Zero Business Pledge
The West Midlands Net Zero Business Pledge was launched by Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, in March 2021 and now has over 100 pledged organisations including many SWM members such as National Express West Midlands and Mott MacDonald.
Completed Project
23 Jan 2024
Environment Agency: Scaling up the climate change adaptation response in the West Midlands
We have worked in collaboration with the Environment Agency for the past two years to help accelerate and scale-up the region’s response to climate change adaptation. While there is an increasing recognition that we are experiencing a greater number and intensity of extreme weather events, progress on dealing with their risks and impacts remains slow. This collaboration aims to drive forward activity across multiple sectors in the region, to increase resilience and encourage adaptation action.
Completed Project
18 Dec 2023
Solihull Council: Secretariat to Climate Change Commission
SWM were commissioned to provide secretariat support to the Solihull Climate Change Commission.
Completed Project
18 Dec 2023
Aston Centre for Growth: Green Advantage Skills Bootcamps
SWM provide facilitation and coaching to businesses taking part in the Aston Green Advantage Programme.
Current Project
18 Dec 2023
WRAP: Business Recycling Support Pilot
SWM worked with WRAP and Solihull Council to deliver a pilot of support to businesses in relation to new waste and recycling regulations.
Completed Project
23 Aug 2023
Birmingham City Council: Sustainable Tourism Hub
SWM worked with Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Growth Company to produce an online Sustainable Tourism Hub.
Completed Project
30 May 2023
Midlands Forest Network: Audience Audit
SWM carried out a high level audience audit for the Midlands Forest Network Partnership to assist with the stakeholder engagement element of their plans to expand the forest network across the region.
Completed Project
5 Dec 2022
West Midlands Combined Authority: Next steps on climate change adaptation
Building on our wider regional work on climate change adaptation with the Environment Agency, the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) commissioned SWM, supported by our members Accelar and our Associate Mat Burhouse, to help commence their work on the subject, fitting in with their wider and well established sustainability ambitions.
Completed Project
8 Nov 2022
Local Government Association: Climate Change Sector Support Programme - Regional Retrofit Action Plan Training
Delivered through a collaboration between the Local Government Association (LGA) and Sustainability West Midlands, the Regional Retrofit Action Plan Training brought together council officers to address retrofit challenges at the local and partnership level. The training supported the development of councils’ regional work by exploring how to effectively utilise and support key partners and stakeholders both nationally and regionally, focusing on three key themes: training providers, communities, and the private sector.
Completed Project
22 Dec 2021
National Lottery Heritage Fund: Embedding sustainability principles into the heritage sector
This project concluded nearly four years of support to the Heritage Fund, the overarching outcome being the full embedment of sustainability across the organisation, both through staff training and the development of a framework to allow staff to assess applications for their sustainability credentials in a consistent way in future.
Completed Project
18 Nov 2021
Climate Change Committee: Improving the accessibility of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment -Part 2
Part two of this project, which provides support to the Climate Change Committee on improving the accessibility of outputs associated with the Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk, focused on producing outputs that considers the above advice, to bring thousands of pages of text to life and make the key findings and messages clearer, more digestible and understood by the primary audience, which is central Government.
Completed Project
17 Jun 2021
Midlands Net Zero Hub: Midlands Low Carbon Sector Study 2021
SWM and kMatrix were commissioned by the Midlands Energy Hub to provide an evidence-based study to understand the current state of the Low Carbon Environmental Goods & Services (LCEGS) Sector in the Midlands, where support is needed to help grow this sector, and the role the sector can play in driving a low-carbon recovery from Covid-19.
Completed Project
15 Jun 2020
Climate Change Committee: Improving the accessibility of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment – Part 1
SWM provided advice to the Committee on Climate Change on how to improve the accessibility of the the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report, due for publication next year. The project looked at better use of communications, providing engagement opportunities and reframing of outputs.
Completed Project
15 May 2020
National Lottery Heritage Fund: Sustainability webinar for Heritage Fund staff and applicants
This project brought to a head over two years of support to the Heritage Fund as we ran a webinar for around 65 staff and potential grantees on how sustainability aspects can be better embedded into funding applications.
Completed Project
5 May 2020
Midlands Net Zero Hub: Midlands Energy Hub Board
SWM have been on the board of the Midlands Energy Hub since it's establishment in 2018. Working in partnership with the UK Government through BEIS, the Midlands Energy Hub is supporting the delivery of a carbon neutral Britain at a local and regional level.
Completed Project
5 May 2020
Midlands Net Zero Hub: Rural Community Energy Fund
SWM have been on the board of the Midlands Energy Hub since it’s establishment in 2018. The Hub oversee delivery of the Rural Community Energy Fund across the Midlands.
Completed Project
14 Feb 2020
Climate Change Committee: How does people’s behaviour affect their response to extreme weather events?
This project looked at how people have reacted to extreme weather and why, and what behaviours people and communities demonstrate when they are preparing for, responding to and recovering from an extreme weather event.
Completed Project