On this week’s episode Sonya was joined by Carina Galavan, Property fund and ESG specialist at Aviva Ireland – Carina talks about her role at Aviva and how the organisation make a difference and create impact via sustainability and energy upgrades and projects in and at their properties. She talked about the partnerships they have created and their work with Champion Green and how they support the Champion Green pop up competition - they gift a unit free of charge for a small period of time to the winner of the champion green pop up winner so they can find out if this works for them. She talks about the various brands they have supported them and how that impacted the business. Sonya shares her experience and the importance of moving from an online business to a physical space and they both also briefly cover how some businesses are not sustainable or suitable for a physical retail space and how many learnings there can be in that.

They also talk about how to find out more about the next Champion Green Pop up competition, when it opens etc and about the other gifting initiatives Aviva do with other organisations and charities including one with neurodiversity Ireland, pride month and the Finally they talk about the changing face of retail.

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