Charity Eco-Audits
3 Acorns Eco-Audits have wide experience of eco-audits in the charity sector.
Our founder Donnachadh McCarthy
worked in the charity and not-for-profit sector for
over a decade, which gives us an understanding of how the sector works and the special
challenges that charities face when working to improve their environmental performance.
3 Acorns Eco-audits was commissioned by the Corporation of London to carry out an
eco-audit project of 12 charities in the non-environmental sector in London, including
the sector's three major umbrella bodies ACEVO, ACF and NCVO.
The project funded by the City Bridge Trust won a gold Green Apple Award, presented
at the awards ceremony at the House of Commons. The following year it won the National
Energy Efficiency Award.
The charities we have eco-audited have ranged from sheltered housing units to community
transport charities to a book-service for the blind. Donnachadh worked for 7 years
in the sector for The Lord’s Taverners children’s charity and was a charity trustee
for 12 years.
This helps us understand the special issues that face the charitable sector and we
believe passionately that a well run charity also means an environmentally responsible
charity.
Charities that have been Eco-audited by 3 Acorns Eco-Audits include:
The Old Vic Theatre
RNID (Royal National Institute for the Deaf)
ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations)
ACF (Associations of Charitable Foundations)
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Worthing Churches Homeless Project
Hackney Community Transport
Merton VSC (Voluntary Services Council)
CSV (Community Service Volunteers)
Crisis
Centrepoint
ROTA (Race on the Agenda)
Calibre (Books for the blind)
Glebe House (Residential Community)
Oakbank Secondary School, Yorkshire
Live Sky TV Eco Audit for Lutterworth School
ACME
South London YMCA
Minority Rights Group
Cherry Orchards Therapeutic Community
Spitalfields City Farm
Southwark Citizens Advice Bureau
Merlewood Estate
Organiclea Community Nursery
Age UK London
East London Mosque
St Margaret’s Church
Motivaction Events Group
