Environmental and Sustainability Policy

1. Our commitment

TELT (TransformELT Ltd) is committed to delivering high-quality consultancy and training services in a way that supports sustainability and responsible practice. As a knowledge-based consultancy, our direct environmental footprint is small, but we recognise our responsibility to minimise our impact and to operate in a way that is consistent with the UK's commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

We align our work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 4 (Quality Education) and Goal 13 (Climate Action), and with the British Council's Environmental Policy as a reference standard for our sector.

While we do not currently hold formal environmental certifications, we are exploring accreditation options proportionate to our scale, including the GreenMark environmental accreditation for SMEs, as part of our commitment to continuous improvement.

2. Our environmental impact

TELT is a virtual operation with three staff and a network of associate consultants. We have no dedicated office premises, no manufacturing operations and no physical product supply chain. Our environmental impact is concentrated in two areas:

• International travel — programme delivery, training, institutional visits and conference attendance. This is by far our largest environmental impact.
• Digital operations — cloud-based collaboration, video conferencing, data storage and website hosting.

Other impacts — paper use, office energy, waste — are minimal given our virtual operating model.

3. How we manage our impact

We take the following steps to reduce our environmental footprint:

• Virtual-first delivery: we deliver services online or in hybrid format where this does not compromise programme quality, reducing our carbon footprint while expanding accessibility to remote and under-served regions
• Partnering locally: we work with local providers and associate consultants to minimise travel and support local economies and capacity building
• Travel reduction: we travel only when physical presence adds clear value to the work. Conference attendance is limited to one representative. We combine multiple engagements within a single journey where possible.
• Blended learning: we combine online modules with in-person workshops, reducing the need for repeated travel while maintaining quality of delivery
• Paperless operations: we operate digitally by default — virtual meetings, digital documents, online collaboration. Printing is minimised across all activities.
• Responsible procurement: where we procure goods or services, we prefer suppliers that demonstrate responsible environmental practices

4. Travel and delivery

International travel is integral to TELT's work. Many of our programmes require physical presence for training delivery, classroom observation, institutional capacity building and stakeholder engagement. We manage this through a clear hierarchy:

1. Virtual delivery as the default for planning, coordination and non-contact phases of programme work
2. Travel only where physical presence adds demonstrable value to the programme
3. Trip consolidation — combining multiple activities or engagements within a single journey
4. Direct routing where available
5. Economy class as standard

Our commitment to virtual working has delivered savings of approximately £80,000 to date. Our reduction in travel and carbon footprint has delivered further savings of approximately £30,000 over the past four years, which we have reinvested in other, higher-impact areas of our work.

5. Digital operations

TELT's day-to-day operations run on Google Workspace, whose parent company has matched 100% of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy purchases since 2017 and is targeting carbon-free energy 24/7 by 2030. Our website is hosted on Webflow, which operates on AWS infrastructure — the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally, committed to net zero by 2040.

We have chosen these providers in part because of their sustainability commitments. We recognise that these are infrastructure-level achievements, not our own, but they reflect conscious decisions about the platforms we use.

6. Review

This policy is reviewed annually by the Directors as part of our ongoing commitment to building an increasingly responsible and sustainable service model. We will update our commitments as our operations evolve and as opportunities arise to reduce our environmental impact further.

Current version approved by Sarah Mount, Director, on 19 April 2026.

7. Contact us

TELT (TransformELT Ltd)
6 Hamilton Court, Trafalgar Square, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 7WS
Company No. 10684195, registered in England and Wales

Email: [governance@teltglobal.com]
Website: teltglobal.com