1. CFOA Managing Natural Resources Seminar: North West FRS Sustainability Network NW Network Projects and Results to date Environmental Manager: Adam Hebden Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service

2. NW FRS Sustainability Network Area Regional Profile: Merseyside Lancashire Greater Manchester Cumbria Cheshire StaffArea (sq km) StationsPopulation MFRS 1,800645251,400,000 CFRS 9802,33424984,300 LFRS 1,5003,709391,451,500 CCFRS 8216,76838498,800 GMFRS 2,6411,284412,500,000 Totals 7,74214,7401676,834,600

3. NW FRS Sustainability Background NWFRSs committed to collaborate to secure a safer and more sustainable North West through the NW F & R Management Board Grant funding secured from NW Improvement & Efficiency Partnership (NWIEP) to fund four 3 year 2008/11 regional programmes in: Environmental Sustainability (£150K) Value for Money (£110K) Community Engagement (£150K) Innovation (£40K) Governance of programmes is delivered via NWFR Management Board, each Programme is sponsored by NW FRS CFOs & has defined outputs & outcomes. Each project managed by project manager & attended by FRS representative & member champions

4. Environment & Sustainability Programme Attendance: Uniform / Non Uniform representative from each FRS, member champions, NWFR Board regional representative, GoNW representative & guest partners, meets every 2 months, venues rotated Key resource: Web portal to share documents, information, news, strategies, policies, reports, contacts etc. Aims of Network: Implement Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001, BS 8555) Deliver collective carbon reductions, share best practice knowledge & experience Encourage & develop innovation on sustainability issues within the FRSs NW FRS Sustainability Network Resources

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6. NW FRS Sustainability Network Results so far MFRS, GMFRS & CFRS ISO 14001 & BS8555 certification 1 st FRS Carbon Trust Local Authority Carbon Management Partnership All FRSs signatories to the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change 5 to 8% reduction in direct CO 2 emissions in 2009 saving ~ £500K Contributing to LSP / LAA NIs 185, 186, 188 Developed NW FRS sustainability self assessment tool KLOE 3.1 group gap analysis & sharing Knowledge share examples: web portal, environment protection units, carbon foot printing of fires, green travel plans, sustainable procurement, low carbon technologies, natural resource KPIs Shared capital projects: pump telemetry, pressure washers, pac lider, heat mats, tyre pressure gauges, joint capital bids

7. NW FRS Progress to date CheshireGreater Manchester LancashireMerseysideAverage September 200848%55%41%79%56% January 201089%88%71%85%81% Change41%33%30%6%25%

8. Learnings to share 1. Commitment from CFO / NW FRS Management Board key to delivering results 2. Regional partners are keen to get involved to support regional improvements & funding available 3. Potential to make rapid progress when workload, knowledge and practice shared (5 x faster than operating alone) 4. Sharing better than holding on to great practice 5. Improved potential to win grants & bids

9. Questions Thank you! Contact: hebdena@manchesterfire.gov.ukhebdena@manchesterfire.gov.uk Tel: 0161 608 4149