How Businesses can support the Pollinator Plan

We all depend on the important services provided by pollinating insects. Unfortunately our pollinators are in decline, and the problem is serious. Now we are asking businesses across the island to support the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.

To sign up as a Business Supporter, follow these simple steps:

 

1.  Download our guidelines    Businesses: actions to help pollinators

 

2.  Send us your signed copy of the ‘Framework for Businesses’ (page 2 of the business guidelines) by email or post.

3.  Use the flow chart on pages 4-6 to decide what pollinator-friendly actions are right for your company.

 

4.  Sign Up to ‘Actions for Pollinators‘, our online mapping system to register your site and gain recognition for becoming a Business Supporter and your future pollinator-friendly actions, so we can see the build-up of pollinator resources in the landscape.

https://pollinators.biodiversityireland.ie

 

We will then add you to our Business supporters list on our website and send you a special Business supporter logo and Certificate of Participation for display.

 

Benefits of becoming a Business Supporter of the Pollinator Plan:

• A demonstration of your sustainability credentials to consumers and customers
• Helping ensure the reliability of supply chains dependent on animal pollinated crops
• Flexible options for fulfilling Environmental Management Systems (e.g. ISO 14001:2015)
• A framework to support Corporate Social Responsibility objectives
• Coordination with Bord Bía’s Origin Green programme. Pollinator-friendly actions count towards the ‘Biodiversity Element’ of Key Target Area, ‘Manufacturing Processes’

Suitable for: All employees of any business on the island of Ireland

 

The first annual review (2018) gives an update of the actions each business is taking to support the AIPP: AIPP Business Supporters Annual Review 2018

 

Business Supporters of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan:

• Abbott Diabetes Care Ireland
• ABP Food Group
• Accenture
• Acheson & Glover
• Adare Manor Resort
• AIB
• Airmid Natural Irish Skincare
• Allergan Pharmaceuticals Ireland
• An Óige – Irish Youth Hostel Association
• Anovocare Nursing Home
• Ard na Gaoithe B&B
• Ardenode Stud
• Arlington Lodge Suites
• Arrabawn Co-operative Ltd.
• Arvato SCM Ireland Ltd.
• Ash Ecology and Environmental Ltd
• Astellas Ireland Ltd
• Balfour Beatty plc
• Ballymaloe Cookery School
• Ballymaloe Foods
• Bandon Co-Op
• Beeactiv Ltd.
• Bee Green Ireland
• Belfast Zoological Gardens
• Bí Urban
• Blanchardstown Shopping Centre
• Blarney Castle Estate & Gardens
• Bold Puppy
• Boortmalt
• Bumblebee Flower Farm
• Buttercup Micro Farm
• Caherbeg Free Range Pork Ltd.
• Cairn Homes
• Carbery Food Ingredients
• Cathal O’Meara Landscape Architect
• Celtic Anglian Water Ltd
• Claremorris Free Range Eggs
• Clinic na gCapall
• Clondanagh Cottage & Farm on the Lake
• Conroy Crowe Kelly Architects and Urban Designers
• Cool Planet Experience
• Country Crest
• Dawn Farm Foods
• Dawn Meats Carroll’s Cross
• Deaton Lysaght Architects
• DePuy Synthes Ireland
• Down Business Centre
• Doyle Organic Dairy Farm
• Dublin Airport
• Dundrum Town Centre
• Ecoseeds
• Elavon
• Elmpark Green
• Encirc Glass
• Enniscorthy Enterprise & Technology Centre
• Envirico
• Facebook Data Centre Clonee
• Fairyhouse Steel
• Faith Wilson Ecological Consultant 
• Farmhand Ltd
• Finnegan’s Farm
• Folens Publishers
• Fota Island Resort
• FP McCann Ltd.
• Fruit Hill Farm
• GAA National Games Development Centre
• Gannon Homes
• Genovese Foods
• Glanbia Consumer Foods
• Glenisk
• Granville EcoPark Limited
• Grantstown Nurseries Ltd
• Griffins Garden Centre
• GUI National Golf Academy
• Gunn Lennon Fabrications Ltd
• Hawthorn Nurseries & Landscaping Ltd
• Horticulture Consultants Ireland Ltd.
• ICON plc
• Intel
• Irish Country Meats Camolin & Navan
• Irish Distillers Ltd.
• Irish National Stud & Gardens
• Irish Register of Herbalists
• Janssen Supply Chain Ireland
• JLL Ireland Real Estate
• John Doyle Funeral Director & Publican
• KARE
• Kia Ora Mini Farm Ltd.
• Kilsaran International
• Kinahan’s Irish Whiskey Ltd.
• Kinsale Mead Co.
• KRA Renewables
• KSG Catering Ltd.
• Landmark Designs Ltd.
• Leinster Honey
• Lidl Ireland
• Limerick Self Storage
• Little Green Growers, Fiáin organic farm
• Lottie Dolls (Arklu)*
• Machado Men’s Grooming
• McAuliffe Pig Farms
• McAuliffe Trucking Ltd.
• McCormack Family Farms
• McGill Environmental Systems
• Meade Potato Company
• Merit Medical Ireland Ltd.
• Michelle Delaney Herbalist & Aromatherapist
• Millbee Studios
• Milverton Landscapes
• Mo Bhia Duit
• Molex Ireland Ltd.
• Mr. Jeffares Blackcurrants
• Mrs. C’s Herbs and Candles
• Newbridge Foods Ltd.
• Newgrange Gold Ltd.
• Niks Tea Limited
• Novokem
• O’Donnell Furniture Makers
• O’Neills Dry Cure Bacon Co.
• Ollys Farm
• Peter Cuthbert Horticultural Services
• Portmagee Distilling & Brewing Company Ltd.
• Portsalon Luxury Camping
• Pritchitts A Lakeland Dairies Company
• Quinn Building Products
• Quinn Packaging
• Recordati Ireland Limited
  
• Relaxing Garden
• Riverstown Family Practice, Doctors
• Rocker Organic Farm
• Ronan Mac Diarmada & Associates Ltd.
• RTÉ
• SAP Landscapes
• Schram Plants Ltd., Wholesale Nurseries
• Secret Valley Wildlife Park
• Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Manufacturing Ltd.
• Shines Seafood
• SSE Onshore Wind Generation
• St Mullins Honey
• Sweeney Landscape Design
• Tang cafes
• Teva Pharmaceuticals
• The Apple Farm
• The Lismore Food Company
• The Rediscovery Centre
• Tipperary Distillery
• Triall Teoranta
• Urru Culinary Store
• Voxpro – powered by Telus
• Waterford Oysters
• Wexford Preserves
• Wyeth Nutritional Ireland
• Young Nurseries

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Intel’s ‘Biodiversity Meadow’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Businesses: Technical Appendix

Download our Technical Appendix for step-by-step instructions and top tips. It includes photos, planting suggestions and rough costings to help you carry out your pollinator-friendly actions.

 

  

• Pollinator-friendly Planting Code 

Is your outdoor space managed by a contractor? We’ve created a pollinator-friendly planting code which you can provide to professional contractors or landscapers. It contains extensive planting lists for bedding (annuals, perennials), shrubs and trees, as well as a copy of our Pollinator-friendly Pesticide Code.

 

• Visit our Resources page to find presentations, posters, How-to-guides, and signage templates.

 

 

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Thanks to Business in the Community Ireland and Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme for collaborating on the Business Guidelines.