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My name is Richard Odendaal,

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and I'm the Managing Director of AGS
Support Facilities Limited.

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AGS Support Facilities Ltd is a business

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that provides two bespoke solutions
into supported housing.

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The first one is a concierge
and safeguarding service, which covers

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our customers' homelessness,
accommodation properties

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overnight and on weekends
when the support workers go home.

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The second service
we offer is more of a recruitment offering

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whereby we place staff
on temporary contracts to cover day shifts

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such as support workers
recovery workers, reception

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staff, etc..

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We decided some time ago
that we wanted to make a change

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to our fleet of vehicles
within our business.

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So we approached Barclays

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who were very helpful in helping us fund
some new electric vehicles.

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Several benefits
we've noticed since moving across to

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electric vehicles are the tax incentives
available for companies

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who switch to electric vehicles
or fleets of electric vehicles.

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The other thing

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for us was obviously lowering our carbon
footprint and becoming more sustainable

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as a business in terms of our CO2
emissions, etc..

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Having been in business for 25 years,
I believe that business is all

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about relationships.

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Reciprocal relationships is obviously
the type of relationship you want,

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but we're very, very fortunate to have
that sort of relationship with Barclays.

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Our Relationship Manager
at Barclays is very responsive,

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always available when we need them.

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I believe that we all need
to make little changes to try

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and protect our future
in terms of being more sustainable,

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such as driving EVs,
switching the way we power our home

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and just making little
changes across the board.

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Sustainability doesn't need to be an insurmountable
challenge for businesses.

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Our suggestion would be looking at it
in bite size chunks

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and all the little changes
that you can make, make a difference.