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Resource Efficient Business (REBiz) programme

Grants and advice to help businesses in Yorkshire cut energy use, waste and costs.

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What is the REBiz programme?

The Resource Efficient Business (REBiz) programme supported small and medium-sized businesses in Yorkshire to save money and resources while working towards our aim to be a zero-carbon energy economy by 2038.

Led by West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the REBiz project supported 375 small and medium-sized firms in the Leeds City Region (excluding Barnsley) and parts of York and North Yorkshire LEP.

The programme offered:

  • Grants of up to £40,000
  • Advice to help reduce energy use, waste, and water costs
  • Support for businesses to adopt circular economy principles

The programme took place in 2020 – 2023 is part of our wider clean energy and environmental resilience programme.

What was achieved?

Through the programme, we:

  • Provided advice and guidance to 375 businesses
  • Helped 120 businesses take action to save money and resources by tackling barriers to reducing energy, water, and waste
  • Saved businesses over £1 million
  • Cut 1 million kWh of energy
  • Saved 2780 tonnes of carbon a year

How was this project funded?

  • £561,000 from Leeds City Region Growth Deal + Get Building Fund
  • £41,000 York and North Yorkshire Growth Deal
  • £2.2 million from European Regional Development Fund
  • £1.91 million from the private sector

REBiz (Resource Efficiency Fund 2) was part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020.

What is the clean energy and environmental resilience programme?

We’re working to make West Yorkshire cleaner, greener, and better prepared for the effects of climate change, while creating new opportunities for businesses and communities.

This programme supported: 

  • Low-carbon, sustainable growth that helps businesses cut pollution and use energy more efficiently
  • Green spaces and natural landscapes that attract people to live, work and visit
  • New technologies and innovative systems that give people more control over how they use energy
  • Well-insulated homes and cleaner air, so that problems like poor air quality and fuel poverty become a thing of the past

Find out more

For more information, please email our team.

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