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Cleone Foods - BEAS auditor and Cleone Foods Managing Director in blue jackets stand outside a building with a sign that reads "The Home of ISLAND DELIGHT."
  • Sustainability
  • Case study

06 August 2025

Baking in better efficiency fuels Cleone Foods’ sustainability recipe

Cleone Foods worked with the Business Energy Advice Service (BEAS). The detailed energy assessment provided by BEAS clearly identified opportunities for substantial efficiency improvements. 

Family Care Trust - A BEAS advisor in an orange safety vest is writing in a notebook while talking to John Watts, The Fundraising and Media Lead of Family Care Trust
  • Sustainability
  • Case study

30 July 2025

Family Care Trust powers up their solar power with BEAS

Facing rising costs, Family Care Trust installed 192 solar panels with BEAS support—cutting energy bills and boosting sustainability.

Grey Stone Construction Image
  • Funding
  • Case study

18 July 2025

How Greystone Construction tapped into SME Grants to grow

Greystone Construction used SME Grants to invest in concrete pumps, cut costs, win contracts, and create local jobs in Sandwell.

Pippatopia opening: photographed left to right: Coun Syeda Khatun, Shokat Lal, Rachel Butler, Lynne Avery, Helen Peach
  • Funding
  • Case study

17 July 2025

Children’s roleplay café opens with backing from business support programme

New roleplay café Pippatopia opens in Smethwick with BGWM support—bringing joy to kids, coffee to parents & jobs to the community.

Stones Throw staff at work on big screens in branded tshirts
  • Funding
  • Case study

14 July 2025

Creative agency builds capacity through strategic investment

Wolverhampton’s Stone’s Throw Media scales up with BGWM support, boosting live-streaming capacity & unlocking future growth.

Jon Lander and Christine Hancock from BGWM, on either side of Active Hands Founder Rob Smith
  • Funding
  • Case study

10 July 2025

Funding backs growth from cottage industry to global brand

Solihull’s Active Hands grows globally with support from BGWM, helping people with disabilities live more independently.

Thomas Dudley chairmen with Richard Parker
  • Case study
  • Sustainability

07 July 2025

Historic manufacturer eyes green growth with net zero funding

100-year-old Black Country firm cuts carbon by 300+ tonnes a year with £100k BEAS funding - saving £200k & driving green growth.

5 Senses & Stephen Harris 800X500
  • Start-up
  • Case study

30 June 2025

Five Hong Kong creatives set to launch new Co-op following ‘InKongbator’ success

Five Hong Kong creatives are launching a co-op, an inclusive, member-owned business - after InKongbator success in the West Midlands.