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Becky Toal Environmental Professional of the Year Society for the Environment Award 2022!

Managing Director of Crowberry Consulting® Ltd – Enabling Sustainable Futures, Becky Toal, wins the Society for the Environment Award for Environmental Professional of the Year 2022!

The finalists were selected from an array of high calibre nominations, received for environmental professionals working in energy, agriculture, environmental management, water supply, transport, resources and waste, chemical engineering, the built environment, and more. Nominees also ranged from freelance to Directors working for multinational consultancies

Designed to recognise those outstanding individuals who have innovated, inspired, and have gone beyond what’s expected in their recent work to protect, preserve, or enhance the environment, there are two prestigious awards up for grabs:

• Environmental Professional of the Year
• Registrant Newcomer of the Year

In judging Becky to be the winner of this prestigious award, the judging panel noted her clear knowledge and leadership, excellent communication skills, and infectious passion for protecting the environment. Setting up and leading her own business Crowberry Consulting Ltd since 2006, in this time she has supported swathes of UK and EU based businesses to become more sustainable by implementing ISO environmental management systems, delivering innovative training courses, and giving back to a profession that has given her so much, by coaching and mentoring early career professionals. A career highlight was achieved in 2021, as Becky was appointed – in partnership with Arup – as Lead Sustainability Consultant of both G7 and COP26, with her work duly recognised as the events were awarded the ISO 20121 standard. All of this and more shows Becky as someone truly going above and beyond to protect the environment – and a worthy winner of the 2022 Environmental Professional of the Year award.

“I am truly delighted to be awarded Environmental Professional of the Year 2022, especially given the strength of the competition. This reflects the professionalism of the sector and how far the respect for our work has come over the years. To be the winner feels amazing and I hope to inspire the next generation of environmental managers, auditors, and consultants to work hard, go for their dreams and apply their skills and knowledge to continue to support protecting the environment. Thank you to the Society for the Environment for this recognition, it really means a great deal to me and my team at Crowberry Consulting.” Becky Toal, MD.

Crowberry Consulting wins Best Collaboration between Universities and Employers with University of Liverpool at The National Undergraduate Employability Awards 2022.

Crowberry Consulting Ltd – Enabling sustainable futures, has won the 2022 National Undergraduate Employability Awards in London recognising their internships placed with University of Liverpool since 2017.

Becky Toal MD said: “We are delighted to have our project with University of Liverpool recognised in this way. As a SME business we annually take on undergraduates and internships including PhD students to support them into the world of work, we offer quality projects and placements to enhance their skills and knowledge so that they are genuinely work ready upon graduating. Crowberry Consulting is a Lancashire Skills Pledge Member and Society for the Environment Employer Champion as well as an Apprenticeship Champion, we are committed to training our team and that includes internships and placements. We look forward to continuing to work with the University of Liverpool into the future and would like to thank the team including Paul Cullinan and the careers and employability programme that supports SME businesses.”

The National Undergraduate Employability Awards is an annual awards for employers and programmes with Universities for the whole of the UK. It recognises the dedication, commitment and hard work of individuals and projects that upskill and support undergraduates across the board.

NUE Awards PR Info:

The winners of the 2022 National Undergraduate Employability Awards, organised by RateMyPlacement.co.uk, were announced on Friday 4th March at etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate, London.

Four hundred of the industry’s finest came together to celebrate the outstanding achievements of employers, universities and students in undergraduate work experience.

Special Guest Speaker and Co-host of the Awards, Hannah Mills, OBE inspired the audience with her very successful Olympic journey, becoming the most successful female sailor in Olympic history. She also talked about being an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sustainability Ambassador and how she launched the Big Plastic Pledge in 2019 – an athlete movement to change the way single use plastic is used in and beyond sport.

Crowberry Consulting our sister organisation has been re-appointed to work as a Chamber Low Carbon Consultant from 2020 – 2023. Supporting Lancashire based business to access low carbon technologies, grants and support with calculating carbon footprints. Call us today if you are a Lancashire based SME that needs this fully funded support via ERDF.