Climate Ambassadors

Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.

Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors

Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.

Build your staff confidence to take action on sustainability

At this stage, your staff and volunteers will have different training needs across different roles. Look to give everyone basic awareness of sustainability, with deeper dives for your sustainability leads.

Deepen your knowledge and understanding of climate change and sustainability

This involves increasing your leadership team's knowledge and awareness of the key issues, and challenges related to sustainability and climate change, helping them to understand the urgent need to prioritise action in becoming a more sustainable setting.

Low costLong term action

Provide sustainability CPD for staff

Provide staff with opportunities to develop their knowledge, confidence and skills around sustainability and climate action.

MilestoneRepeat action

Set up a sustainability working group

Bring together colleagues from across your setting to combine skills and perspectives, agree on clear actions, and build shared accountability.

MilestoneLow costOne off action

Embed sustainability training into the induction of new staff

Use the opportunity of new staff joining your setting to upskill them, set expectations and embed sustainability behaviours and practices from the start. This can help drive your developing ethos and culture at your setting of prioritising sustainability.

Low costRepeat action