100 Ways in 100 Days

Sue Skeats

Help your employees work, live, and think more sustainably, fast.

Impact area: Sustainability

The UN says the challenges around climate change are huge but that there’s still time to create a thriving, sustainable future. While the focus is on government and big business decisions globally, it says individuals need to unite too, if the scale of the challenge is to be met – and that everyone can play a part. 

Founder Sue Skeats was inspired to create 100 Ways in 100 Days while running an award-winning PR and communications industry. Sue took her passion about ‘doing my bit’ by designing a business that made it super-easy and uplifting for others to do their bit too, at scale and enabling real change for everyone. 

100 Ways in 100 Days is a fun and engaging, behaviour change e-learning programme delivered via the workplace. It’s based on the theory of marginal gains (how small things, replicated many times over, can have significant impact). In essence, it helps people to discover how to work and live more sustainably. 

Sue wants her daughter and daughter’s children to know we did all we can to save our wonderful, natural world.

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CompAir

Tom King, Guy Monson and Mike Coombes

Making the invisible, visible

Impact area: Sustainability

The most harmful pollution in our atmosphere is invisible. According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is now one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, causing seven million premature deaths a year. 

CompAir is a Social Enterprise obsessive about revealing air pollution and improving air quality. CompAir is a low-cost portable air pollution monitor that can see, measure, and reveal this pollution. CompAir also helps to understand the steps (many of them very simple) which can be made to reduce exposure to air pollution.  This unique approach gives live feedback, helping industries to instantly reduce pollution at source - avoiding harmful emissions and costly site shut-downs.

​As a social enterprise, our mission is to reveal toxic air pollution including Particulate Matter, Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide to the people most affected - often those on low incomes in affordable housing.

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Refashion my town CIC

Tze Ching Yeung

Refashion my town CIC

Impact areas: Sustainability

Refashion My Town help young people find their identity and purpose, by building a community of co-creators and collaborators for a more sustainable future, through pre-loved fashion, music and art.

Through selling pre-loved clothing, environmental education (skill enhancement programmes around sewing/mending) and textile waste reduction (through our sharing economy), Refashion My Town are building a likeminded community who believe in sustainability but also help reconnect our community in a meaningful and healthy way, built on trust and contribution. We also help alleviate social exclusion through providing an inclusive environment and help to those in need.

Twipes

Alborz Bozorgi, Ellenor McIntosh, Elizabeth Kotoulis & Chloe Stafford

The world's first truly flushable wet wipes

Impact areas: Sustainability

Twipes are an innovative solution to one of the greatest threats to the security of our global future - plastics.  Traditional wet wipes take a minimum of 100 days to break down in water, if not years, and they release micro-plastics into our waterways and oceans.  There aren’t any regulations on labelling a product as “flushable” and unfortunately many consumers are continuing to flush plastic wipes unaware of the damage they’re doing. 

We’re proud to be different - Twipes have been independently verified as flushable with EDANA’s flushability certification. And if Twipes replaced a mere 5% of the market, we would be able to reduce blockages by 35%, which is a huge outcome for us in the UK.  Our product is truly flushable and biodegradable, a safer alternative for our sewers and oceans and a safe keeper of our front-line workers, making Twipes great for the planet and the people.

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Circular 11

Ben Gibbons

Products that power change

Impact area: Sustainability

Circular11 has a vision to reduce the damage of plastic pollution by creating a circular economy of taking plastic waste and repurposing this into new products that power the economy. The solution, a recycling and extrusion line that designs, simulates, and engineers new plastic materials, innovative products, and simplified production processes.

Circular11 believe in a future where everyone has access to proper waste management, and safe housing. Whether we are working with local communities, or with communities in emerging markets, our purpose is the same: to make the circular economy accessible to all. We want people to be able to take ownership of their waste and give them the option to turn it back into a resource.

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The Timeless Players

Andrew Loudon

Ageing well through drama therapy

Impact area: Ageing well (55+)

The Timeless Players vision is not to just put on a good show, but to use drama as a tool for improving memory, wellbeing and reducing isolation in an ageing population. Through drama improv workshops and shows, Timeless Players promote the ageing well agenda by offering a powerful therapeutic recipe for memory and dementia in an artistic process.

Social Circles

Phil Sharratt, Anna Gover, Richard Crowe & Wayne Sharratt

Reclaiming outdoor spaces to improve mental wellbeing

Impact areas: Ageing well (+55) and mental wellness and resilience

Access to green spaces and nature can profoundly enhance wellbeing, however there are many in society due to physical or financial barriers who are unable to maintain or enjoy their gardens. With the current cost of living crisis this number is growing. For those in social or rented accommodation being unable to maintain their gardens, increases anxiety around rising costs, and concerns that their external spaces are also overgrown and unkempt. This can create a fear of repercussions to their housing status. 

Social Circles CIC are a project-based social enterprise, meeting the needs of our local communities in Somerset. With the help of grants from some local organisations, Social Circles CIC aims to help those who are going through difficult financial times.

Smplicare

Garrett Sprague

Age with independence. Care with confidence.

Impact area: Ageing well (55+)

The UK’s 2021 Industrial Strategy established a goal of adding five-years of healthy, independent life to people by 2035. While only 20% of the UK population is over 65, the segment accounts for 42% of public health spending. A major driver is falls in the frail and elderly, which accounts for 220,160 emergency hospital admissions, resulting in an annual cost of £4.2 billion. 

Smplicare are developing technology that reduces the risk of falls for individuals and the cost to the NHS and social care systems, but that’s just the start. Smplicare is accelerating the path to predictive, preventative, proactive health as a data-driven platform empowering the future of independent ageing. They have a global aspiration to support the world’s most vulnerable populations with simple, accessible technology that increases health literacy to improve human health.

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BiBO

Craig Morris, Anna Sabine, Pepper Barney.

Inclusive design so communities thrive

Impact areas: Mental wellness and resilience

BiBO is an award-winning interdisciplinary placemaking consultancy and social enterprise; founded in response to lack of diversity in the property industry and the influence this has on everyday lives.  Our interest is in equitable urbanism that meets the needs of people through inclusive and participatory design and business practices.

Our areas of work and research are centred around exploring sustainable regeneration at a hyperlocal level (the 20-minute neighbourhood). We believe there is a better way to deliver projects through education and only through the diversity of people designing and building our towns and cities will we be able to create a more thoughtful, considerate, and inclusive built environment.

We are urban designers, RIBA Chartered Architects, engagement specialists, and educators with a deep understanding of the role that buildings and public spaces play in sustainable communities.

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Dual Diagnosis Hub CIC

Jon Caldbeck

Giving everyone a better chance at recovery

Impact area: Mental wellness and resilience

Addiction currently costs society almost £20 billion a year. Research shows that mental health problems are experienced by the majority of drug (70%) and alcohol (86%) users in community substance misuse treatment. 

Dual Diagnosis Hub’s aim is to empower people with complex mental health and addiction recovery needs to develop healthy addiction-free lives and a better chance of recovery.  They do this by developing a one shop hub that provides those with complex needs or their support network with all the best free online courses, resources, tools, books, articles, and support groups at both local & national levels. 

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Seidea

Stephanie Itimi

Empowering BME women and non-binary into cybersecurity careers

Impact area: Employability

Seidea is a career development platform with a social mission of diversifying the cybersecurity industry. We support over 1000+ Black and Minority Ethnic women and non-binary around the globe in their entry into the cybersecurity field through cyber career programmes and community engagement.

Our mission is to support 100,000 Black and Minority Ethnic women and non-binary in their entry into the cybersecurity sector by 2040. We believe this is the route to reducing the gender and diversity gap that exists in cybersecurity as well as supporting women and non-binary into rewarding, and innovative security careers. We have big ambitions to support the reduction of the cybersecurity gender gap that exist globally.

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