Green pioneers pitch for £40,000 of Shell funding
Small Business News
– 2nd September 2008
Small businesses with pioneering ideas to combat climate change are being offered the chance to win awards of up to £40K from Shell.
The Shell Springboard programme, now in its fourth year, will give six awards of between twenty and forty thousand pounds to SMEs in each of three UK regions Scotland and Northern Ireland; northern and central England; and Wales and southern England.
Businesses wishing to apply must have been established for at least three months, have fewer than 250 employees and be set up either as a soletrader, partnership, limited company or communityinterest company. To convince the judging panel, ideas must be innovative, lead to greenhouse gas reductions and be commercially viable. Shell UK chairman James Smith said;
SMEs are a vibrant and creative sector of the economy, so theyre ideally placed to be climate change entrepreneurs. Shells scenario planning suggests that in the future we will be reliant on a mix of a number of different energy sources and energysaving technologies.
Grass roots innovation from small businesses could be a crucial factor in driving the development of this mix, he continued. Id urge SMEs operating in this field to give serious consideration to the Springboard programme.
Last years winners included Dr Paula Carey of Carbon8, a company which turns everyday rubbish from landfill sites into building materials. Carey believes winning the award helped her to secure a partnership with Kent County Council to create a pilot project on a local landfill site.
Programmes like Shell Springboard encourage small and mediumsized businesses to seize the issue of climate change as a commercial opportunity that should be embraced, she said.
The deadline for entries is 7th November. Businesses that have previously applied for the fund but were unsuccessful are eligible to reapply.
If you have an innovate business idea to combat climate change then you can find more information about the awards and apply online at Shell Springboard.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
