The Workforce Development Trust joins Bristol Green Capital Partnership

By Peter Davison

5 June 2023

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John Rogers of the Workforce Development Trust

The Workforce Development Trust, which is headquartered in Bristol, has joined Bristol Green Capital Partnership - a 1,000-strong group of organisations in the city working together to achieve net zero.

The move signals the registered charity’s commitment to reducing scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions by 2030 in line with government targets.

As the parent organisation of Skills for Health, Skills for Justice, SFJ Awards and People 1st International, The Workforce Development Trust supports the public sector to deliver better frontline services through specialist skills and organisational development initiatives.

Having called the city of Bristol home for more than twenty years, The Workforce Development Trust joins an active community of organisations working towards a zero carbon, socially just Bristol where our communities and nature thrive.

The Workforce Development Trust chief executive John Rogers (pictured) said: “Bristol is leading the charge when it comes to net zero, and with so many forward-thinking businesses and organisations in the city, Bristol Green Capital Partnership offers a unique platform to help charities like ours to decarbonise.

“The Workforce Development Trust has always had a strong social purpose at its core, and we welcome the opportunity to be part of carbon reduction initiatives on a national basis as a supplier to government, as well as collective efforts to achieve net zero right here in Bristol.”

BGCP CEO Lizzi Testani said: "The Workforce Development Trust plays an important role in supporting our vital public services. A trusted supplier to the NHS and the justice sector, we welcome The Workforce Development Trust’s efforts to decarbonise and the positive impact this will have on government supply chains.”

The Workforce Development Trust is a not-for-profit organisation helping employers to continually improve their workforce through increasing productivity, improving learning solutions, and helping to boost the skills of staff across a wide range of industries throughout the UK and internationally.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.