Green Economy

The Kingston Green Business Community (KGBC) is a forum for businesses and organisations committed to reducing their environmental impact, promoting sustainability, eco-innovating and thriving.

Kingston Green Business Community (KGBC)

Membership is free and the community is open to all businesses and organisations based and/or operating in Kingston. The Kingston Green Business Community is linked with other business communities with similar objectives.

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Find out more and sign up online on the Connected Kingston website.

Founding members of the community

Aviva, Bentall Centre, Energy Group/Transition Town Kingston, Genuine Solutions, Imperial College, IQ in IT, Kingston Chamber of Commerce, Kingston Council, Kingston First, Kingston Hospital, Kingston University, Lidl, South London Partnership, South Thames Colleges Group, United Business Group, WSP.

The following organisations and people are members of the Kingston Green Business Community

A Greener London: Green infrastructure & living walls.

A-Plan Kingston: Insurance for both personal and professional needs, with a new commercial team available to help your business. 

An Urban Rose: A Kingston based sustainable streetwear brand retailing online and at local events.

ARCUS NEWS: Communication and networking platform which intelligently connect businesses and academic experts with the aim of creating sustainable and productive economies that work for people and the planet.

Ashton Meadows Ltd: Purpose built quality care facility in the Kingston / Coombe area. 

Attain accountancy Ltd: Management accountancy services for care, education and sports sector.

Auditel (UK) Ltd: Carbon measurement, management and reduction consulting.

AuLaw Organic Farm UK CIC: Providing the community with knowledge and incentives good enough to grow their own food for their culture, wellbeing and enjoyment.

Auxilium Business Consulting Ltd: Small business consulting.

Axis Europe: Specialising in the improvement and maintenance of housing, heritage, education, public and commercial properties.

Aztec Event Services Ltd: Providing audio-visual equipment and technical services within the events & exhibitions industry.

Biofuel Evolution: A cleantech startup that transforms organic waste into biofuels, bioenergy and treated water using engineering biology techniques for local businesses and communities. 

Bluteshi Ltd: Empowering sustainable business owners and Londoners, by making it easy for the average person to consume sustainably, in one click.

Boutique Capital Ltd: Retrofit and Sustainable Finance. Regeneration and repurpose of existing buildings and access to discounted funds for greener smarter healthier new builds. 

Bruce Elliot Leisurewear: Embroidered and printed clothing for all events. 

Clearly Business Law: Legal services

Concept Vehicle Leasing: Leasing and fleet management of cars and vans while helping customers decarbonise their motoring.

Connected Comms Society: Marketing, communications and engagement.

Coombe Boys' School: State School with a focus on careers provision.

Creating Shelter: Domestic energy assessment, retrofit assessment and advocacy.

Crew energy: Energy efficiency consulting and energy advice.

Crystalisr: A multi-stakeholder co-operative promoting community wealth building across the South London sub-region.

Datadoor Limited: A proptech solution, linking homes, homeowners and their trades and professionals to build a dataset which is then used to provide property specific advice around the route to Net Zero, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

D.M. SPRAGG LTD: General building contractors.

Department of Geography and Environmental Science - Kingston University: Higher Education training and development - green skills and careers.

Design JD: Working with companies to create successful brands that can attract the right customers and thrive.

DoggyLush: A shop for pet lovers by pet lovers.

Dwell Rich Ltd: Carrying out construction and interior design projects from concept to completion.

EcoSolutions Consulting Limited: Helping companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint.

Ecowelle Limited: Multidisciplinary construction and building engineering services covering new developments, extensions and annual maintenance packages.

Energy Advice Centre a LSBU: A free public advice service to help London residents and communities to improve the energy performance of their homes and reduce their energy costs.

Energy Saving Trust: Free, impartial, and tailored energy advice to help homeowners and landlords save energy and water, cut bills, access financial support, explore options for insulation and installing renewables and reduce their carbon footprint.

ESG Risk Viewer: Providing a 360° view of the complex ESG landscape, enabling organisations of all types to manage ESG risks and opportunities, and to focus on the intersection between corporate objectives and impacts.

ExNet Limited: Consultancy firm.

Felicity The Green Energy & Services Queen: Reducing costs of essential services for businesses & homes whilst turning them more eco friendly. 

FOR THE FUTURE BETTER ME LTD: Massage therapy.

Full Cycle Bicycle Project CIC: Working with local grassroots causes to inspire and support more people into cycling and give them the skills and confidence to keep riding.

Full Power Utilities Ltd: Sourcing competitive priced utility solutions for your business, helping your business to achieve net zero carbon emission targets.

Gateway Financial Consulting Ltd: Green mortgages.

Genuine Solutions Ltd: Saving planet Earth from the wasteful impacts that unwanted tech has on it - by recovering, reloving and repurposing - powering the circular economy within Mobile Telecoms.

Gigglez: Organic balms for children and mothers for better health, mind relief.

Glee Whizz Photography: Photography services.

Green Mark: Action driven environmental accreditation that is an achievable and credible pathway towards a sustainable business culture. 

GMT Software Consultancy: Providing consultancy services on software platform development.

Handelsbanken plc - Kingston Branch: Handelsbanken Kingston is a local branch of Handelsbanken plc offering relationship banking services for Private and Corporate Banking Customers.  

Heathwell Investments: Office rental service.

Hudjo: A mobile app that enables cyclists to easily find and securely park within the premises of local businesses.

Imagine Creativity Ltd t/a 2Toucans: Web design, development, strategy, consultancy, hosting & training services for the charity, social enterprise, membership association and small business sectors.

Interactual Ltd: Product design and production, technical support services including R&D, functional testing and support with standards compliance.

IQ in IT LTD: Managed IT services.

Iri IR: Art classes for children and adults. 

Invest4Energy: ESG crowdlending platform, where people can raise funds for their solar project or lend money to earn interest.

JEL International: Help organisations do well by doing good. Applying external knowledge to your organisation’s internal way of doing things, specifically focusing on impactful growth with no disruption to "business as usual".

JLL: A range of real estate services.

JNDC Ltd: Engineering design for manufacture consultancy, taking concepts through to production.

Joltify LTD: Solar, battery and EV charger specialist installation company.

Just Clear Ltd: A sustainable clearance company.

KAPDAA - The Offcut Company: Working with brands to upcycle fabric offcuts / end of rolls to create sustainable accessories that can be given away at trade shows or sold as limited edition.

Kingston Architects Ltd: Architecture services.

Kingston Chamber of Commerce:  Leading business membership organisation in Kingston. Providing a range of business support and networking events, working with many key stakeholders in the borough and hosting business Expos.

Kingston Hive: A collective of local volunteers who have taken over a vacant space in the town centre and are transforming it into a vibrant hub to benefit people and the planet.

Kingston Logistics: Specialising in the efficient transportation of large, heavy, and sensitive items, providing customised logistical planning and project management to meet diverse business and individual needs.

Kingston Quaker Centre: KQC is used for Quaker activities, and rooms are let to a variety of charitable and community organisations. It is of the nature of a village hall.

Kingston University: Higher Education Training and Development - Green Skills and Careers.

Kingston University - Department of Geography and Environment

Kingston University - Kingston Business School

Kingston University - Placements & Partnerships

Kingston Voluntary Action CIO: Offering a comprehensive wrap-around service to charities and community groups of advice, guidance, training, networking, representation and brokerage.

Let's Go Zero Ltd t/a weekly.shop: Circular supermarket eliminating packaging waste from grocery shopping.

Lewis Hospitality Ltd: Running the Lamb Public House.

Leybold UK Ltd: A fully equipped service workshop with in-house engineers who service and repair a wide range of vacuum pumps and equipment.

Limetrack: Food waste technology company helping businesses reduce their costs by separating, measuring, managing and reducing their food waste.

Living Places: Planning and master planning consultancy.

LOC: Providing specialist clinical services.

Maple Works: A multi-stakeholder co-operative promoting community wealth building across the South London sub-region.

Marechal HR Consulting Ltd: Help businesses to create their people strategy, add insight to pay and reward reviews, and provide HR expertise to a range of projects.

Marguerite Murdoch Architects Ltd: Architectural and engineering activities including technical testing and analysis.

Matrix SCM: Product design and production technical support services including R&D, functional testing and support with standards compliance.

Maybury Energy Services Ltd: Provide a consultancy service for businesses to achieve their net zero targets through solar & battery installation.

MeWow Marketing Consulting Ltd: Strategic and sustainable marketing consulting for UK based small businesses.

Mercatus Consulting Ltd: Business coaching and mentoring.

Minima Yacht Club: A sailing and kayaking club.

MP Smarter Travel: A sustainable transport consultancy, aiming to help make our towns and cities more people-friendly and provide our communities with the freedom to choose how they travel.

My Blu Print Ltd: Printing and publishing using carbon balanced and recycled products.

Natural Inrod International UK: Developed a natural non toxic pesticides from nature, a unique solution in agriculture and safe protection in the professional and domestic sectors, 100% made in the UK.

Net-Zero Insulation Ltd: Training installers to become part of their insulation retrofitting network in the UK.

Oakhouse Software Ltd: Software services, business solutions on the cloud, ecommerce online shops, data and graphics.

Oxygen: Working with young people to provide them with support.

Quilombo UK: A creativity based social marketing agency that challenges cognitive bias, supports community cohesion and amplifies unheard voices. 

RADIANT TECH UK: NetZero consultation & sustainability implementer. 

Reaforma: Repurposing construction and demolition waste into high value affordable low carbon building products.

Resilience Solutions Limited: Specialist consultancy practice working on issues of resilience, sustainability, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

Roast & Ground: Specialising in office coffee machines and services.

Rose Theatre: Hosting a variety of stage shows.

Sara Carter training and consultancy Ltd: Providing business training, business consulting and marketing.

Save The World Club: Collecting fresh surplus food from ten supermarkets and redistributing it to homeless and low income families. It runs a fully equipped Community Kitchen and has a 10,000 square foot warehouse with over 100 tons of clothes, furniture and repaired household goods available to the public or anyone in crisis.

SEA Consulting: MEP building services and sustainability consultancy.

Scotscape Smartscape Ltd: Using technology to support sustainable planting in challenging locations to encourage biodiversity into our cities, often high up out of harms way.

Seksoon Ltd: Providing architectural, interior design, planning advice and project management services.

Sinnott Services Limited t/a RVI Architectural Design: Transforming the human experience of the built environment through design of elegant holistic retrofit renovations. Creating comfortable, efficient, resilient and healthy buildings now and for generations to come.

Sivyer - EcoCycle Source: Offering a multitude of services of recycled CDM material and soils as well as primary aggregates and Inert soils.

Solutions for the Planet: Bringing businesses and young people together to share knowledge and skills to shape a more sustainable future.

Sophie Bates Architects: A Kingston based architecture studio, established to deliver innovative, contemporary and sustainable homes. 

South Thames College Group: Providing a range of vocational education opportunities for school leavers and adult learners.

Stallion Jeans Limited: Designing the garments that ensures transcendent comfort and maintains a firm grip in your daily fashion.

Stay Nimble: Award-winning tech social enterprise making career coaching for adults, affordable and accessible through technology.

SunrayRecycle: 100% Volunteer run initiative, saving waste from landfill & helping those also interested in getting items to the right place.

Surbiton Fish & Chips: Serving traditional fish & chips.

Surrey Honey Farm Ltd: Rescuing wild honeybee nests located in trees.

Sustainable Electrical Services Ltd: Design, installation and maintenance of sustainable building electrical systems, to include electrical vehicle charging, solar PV, intelligent lighting control and LED lighting solutions.

Sustain Quality: Providing innovative and forward-thinking solutions to construction companies, architects, and contractors that focus on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategy for organisations.

Suzanne Arnold: Non-fiction copy-editor and proofreader, for businesses, authors and publishers.

Swan Chambers: A legal practice specialising in technology and IP laws.

The Cave Co-operative: A sustainable architecture practice specialising in natural materials.

The Cheeky Pea: Delicious healthy wraps, pitta pockets, hummus bowls and vegan salads, all homemade from scratch. Takeaway, deliveries, catering and parties, available for outdoors events.

The Community Brain CIC: Exists to work with communities to develop their cohesion using the widest range of the arts, education, sport and local history. It is about giving place and people renewed importance and pride.

Time & Leisure Media: Local print and digital media and creative design agency.

Togada Limited: Content for marketing and communication, live action, 2d, 3d animation services. 

Torque Electric: Retail of electric bikes, bike servicing and sales.

Total Managed Document Solutions: Managed Print Provider, revolutionising the way businesses handle their printing needs. 

Town Square Spaces Kingston: Flexible office space, business admin support and community.

Transition Town Kingston: A community group helping the local area to become more sustainable.

United Business Group: Engaging with the local business community to drive down energy usage and C02 emissions and lead them towards their Net Zero goals.

University of Manchester: A university.

Valbona Interiors: Interior Design Studio with a vision to provide designs using classical interior features & finishes, antiques, up-cycled and bespoke furniture that blend well for contemporary environments.

Vegecoopia: Bringing Asian vegetable growing into urban migrant communities, through food gardening, space matching, consultation service, and cultural food events.

Vine House Property Management Ltd: Manage an historic listed building within Kingston-upon-Thames that is set up as offices occupied by SME's.

West9 Design Ltd: Branding, graphic design and website design.

Whitfield Consulting Services: Offering creative and effective engineering solutions designed to support the project and help our clients meet their goals.

Your Listening Ear: Poems and prose written to order, any words you need.