The SBBS service is run by a team based at Bangor University working with field-based experts across Wales.

We've developed a HealthCheck to help businesses understand where they’re at, in terms of sustainability, and how they can best move forward.

Until recently sustainable development has been a priority and considered good business practice mostly by large corporate companies; however the drive to take up sustainable development is being transferred through the supply chain from large companies and the Welsh Assembly Government. In order to tender for many contracts, suppliers will need to show that they are taking action.

At a Synnwyr Busnes - Business Sense event during the National Eisteddfod in Swansea the then minister for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks, Andrew Davies, said that companies taking-up the service will be helping the contribution that Wales as a whole is making to sustainable development on a global scale.

“Wales has one of the few legislatures in the world which has a commitment to sustainable development built into its basic constitution,” he said, and

“It is a duty we take very seriously – and I am pleased that this innovative approach helps deliver on our drive to ensure a cleaner, greener Wales.”