Grow your business while strengthening your community
Green Gateway supports employers across Mid and West Wales to connect with young people, with a disability or from an ethnic minority community, who are keen to learn, contribute, and progress, helping businesses build diversity, sustainability, and future skills into their workforce. The project focuses on real opportunities, such as internships and paid work placements, that give young people 16 to 30 years of age, meaningful experience while adding value to day to day operations.
Support for employers
Green Gateway offers a space for straightforward, employer-led conversations about recruitment, retention, wellbeing and the shift to greener ways of working, then helps turn them into practical next steps for your organisation.
Support for employers and young people is direct and tailored, working with each organisation to test and implement approaches that work for your staff, your business, and the environment.
How Green Gateway Supports Employers
Green Gateway helps employers create meaningful opportunities for young people through both unpaid internships and paid work placements, making it easier and lower risk for businesses to get involved while adding real value to day to day operations.
Support includes:
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Inclusive recruitment made simple
Ready to use, accessible role descriptions and support to reach a wider, more diverse pool of candidates. -
Work ready workplaces
Quick assessments to spot barriers and put in place straightforward, cost effective adjustments. -
Practical EDI training
Focused on real situations managers face when supervising and supporting young people. -
Dedicated work coaches
Ongoing check-ins with you and the young person to solve issues early and keep progress on track. -
Tapping into extra support
Connections to wider programmes, specialist services, and wrap around help that strengthen placements. -
Help with costs
Advice on accessing funded support including our own employer grants if eligible.
What are Green Jobs?
Green jobs are specific roles that reduce carbon emissions, protect and restore nature, or help communities adapt to climate change. These jobs can be hands on, technical, professional, or managerial, and they exist across many sectors.
Green jobs can include roles that:
- Design, make, or deliver sustainable products and services, such as low carbon transport, energy efficient housing, or waste reducing packaging.
- Improve how organisations operate so that day to day work uses fewer resources, creates less waste, and lowers pollution.
- Install, operate, or maintain green technologies and systems, for example in renewable energy, conservation projects, recycling facilities, or green infrastructure.
- Use green skills to cut environmental impact within any job, such as managing energy use, reducing waste, protecting biodiversity, or applying clean technologies.
Many green jobs already sit within familiar sectors like construction, transport, manufacturing, health, and retail, and their number is rising as employers respond to new environmental expectations and regulations.
Why Employers Get Involved
Employers get involved because it helps them to:
- Attract fresh talent from a wider, more diverse pool of motivated young people.
- Fill skills gaps and build a pipeline of future employees.
Improve retention by creating a more supportive and inclusive workplace. - Enhance productivity through good role matching, training, and in work support.
- Reduce risks around equality, discrimination, and employment law.
- Strengthen their reputation as a socially responsible, community focused employer.
Partnering with Porth Gwyrdd gives businesses practical, tailored support that benefits both their people and their performance.
Am I a green employer?
Being a green employer means your organisation is actively helping to cut carbon emissions, protect nature, and support communities to live with and adapt to climate change. It is less about a single “green” label and more about the kinds of jobs you offer and how your organisation operates day to day. A green business can be one that directly produces goods or provides services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources. But it also includes organisations that are working to “green” their everyday activities by cutting waste, using resources more efficiently, and changing how work is done. Green jobs therefore include roles where people’s day-to-day activities focus on making business processes more environmentally friendly and reducing the use of natural resources.
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