Design flagship Eliot Park is perfect base for Society for the Environment

When the Society for the Environment was searching for a new base, it was attracted to Warwickshire County Council-run Eliot Park Innovation Centre for reasons beyond the facilities it offers.

As the Society's raison d'etre is to promote environmental excellence, it wanted to find a home which met all its own criteria.

Eliot Park does that. 

"As an office-base, Eliot Park offers everything that we need," said Kerry Geldart, the Society's deputy chief executive. "But one of the key things for us is that the centre has good environmental standards, winning the ICE Sustainability Award in 2004 and achieving BREEAM Excellent at its design stage.

 "When it was built it was one of the UK's most environmentally-friendly office-bases. Others have caught up since but, at the time, Eliot Park was quite a flagship and that is something to be very proud of."

The Society for the Environment is a non-profit body which received its Royal Charter in 2004. Since then, it has established a committed membership of 24 professional institutions through which the Society’s ‘Chartered Environmentalist’ qualification is awarded to professional individuals under licence from the Society. Over 8,000 individuals have now registered as Chartered Environmentalists.

The Society also organises seminars which bring together professionals from across different sectors to discuss environmental challenges such as fracking through to sustainable finance.

With much of its business conducted in the capital, good transport links are essential.

"We travel a lot visiting the different institutions and we host events in London and across the UK,  so Eliot Park's location is great with its transport links for the rest of the country," said Kerry.

"Eliot Park is absolutely brilliant for us. It has great facilities for meetings and the staff are extremely helpful; it was an excellent choice for our business. It is great that, through Eliot Park and their other business and innovation centres, the county council continues to offer this great support to small businesses."