Environmental reporting

Under the Energy and Carbon Report Regulations 2018 Trinity is required to report on the environmental impacts of the organisation. The key environmental impacts for Trinity are gas and electricity use across the hospice and in our shops; use of pool cars for community nursing visits; and two leased vans used for retail delivery and collections.

We have calculated energy usage using opening and closing meter readings across our sites and for our vehicles. Scope 1 emissions for gas usage and use of owned and leased vehicles are reported.

Hospice emissions have reduced slightly year on year. In 2022 we launched our sustainability strategy and formed a working group to look at Co2 emissions across the hospice, particularly in our higher emission areas of waste and energy.

We are investigating replacing our current fleet of petrol and diesel vehicles with e-bikes and electric cars which are used for making home visits. We are revieiwng waste management to see where we can reduce, reuse and recycle if possible, sending waste to landfill only as a last resort.

With our retail business back up and running, emissions per shop increased as the shops were closed for the majority of 2020-21. Our Retail team launched their “Sustainable Seven” a plan focused on reducing emissions in seven key areas of the retail business.

Our shops resold, reused or recycled over 1.3 million items of clothing, furniture, books, DVDs and CDs last year, which equates to 116,176 carbon tonnes.

UK Greenhouse gas emissions and energy use data for the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22

Energy consumption used to calculate emissions (kwhs) 2,091,666 1,941,3 1,962,675

Energy consumption breakdown khw

Gas usage 1,194,166 1,210,085 1,195,055 Electricity usage 897,500 731,291 767,620

Energy consumption used to calculate emissions (km)

Transport 50,012 41,919 63,513

Scope 1 Emissions in metric tonnes CO2e

Gas consumption 219,547 222,498 218,886 Electricity usage 229,401 170,493 162,989 Vehicles 11,025 9,999 14,067

Intensity ratios

Hospice emissions per FTE 2,054 2,099 2,067 Retail emissions per shop 2,835 2,076 2,706