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With students returning to university there has been a lot in the news about the wellbeing of students, but what about the staff? 700 employees at the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) are about to begin a pilot sustainability and wellbeing programme...

Future health and safety professionals will benefit from a new student membership category, launched by IOSH this month. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) says the new category will enable it to “develop and improve” the sup...

The UK has hit an historic landmark this month, reaching 20GW of wind generation capacity.  The opening of Ørsted’s 659MW Walney Extension (the world's largest offshore wind farm) off the coast of Cumbria this month pushed the total amount over th...

SAP UKI has announced plans to pilot a ‘Plastics Cloud’ database, which will collect existing and live data across the plastics supply chain to better understand how to reduce single use plastic. The technology used is SAP Leonardo which includes ...

At ALLEN & YORK we really enjoy celebrating success and rewarding excellence.   So, it is with great pleasure that we present our August Award Winners Paul Smith (Assistant Accountant), Charles Cocklin (Principal Recruitment Consultant Waste & Rec...

The record breaking SR2000 tidal power system, developed by Scotrenewables Tidal Power is now being moved from its test berth at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney (EMEC), to prepare for the build and installation phase. In 12 months of c...

Part of our Global Sustainability Leaders Inteview Archive, this interview dates from 2015 As part of our series of Global Sustainability Leader Interviews, ALLEN & YORK were privileged to interview, Christèle Delbé, Head of Sustainability for Ent...

Part of our Global Sustainability Leaders Inteview Archive, this interview dates from 2015 Interview with Claudine Blamey, Head of  Sustainability & Stewardship at The Crown Estate As part of our series of Global Sustainability Leader   Interviews...

ALLEN & YORK took part in the Great Annual Beach Clean again this weekend, down at Studland beach in Dorset.  It was a glorious sunny morning and there was a great turn out with about 30-40 volunteers in total. The Marine Conservation Society, org...

On the 8 September 2018 the Ocean Clean Up company, founded by Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, will launch its first system into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, in an attempt to remove 50 percent of the plastic island over the next 5 years. This p...