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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.

Learning to lead

For settings taking a deeper dive into sustainability

Encourage your learners' community outreach

Motivate learners to actively engage with local organisations or initiatives that address social or environmental challenges.

Long term action

Begin to develop an Asset Management Plan (AMP)

Create a detailed plan to sustainably manage and maintain your setting's physical assets, such as buildings, equipment, and grounds. Align your AMP with your Sustainability Plan.

Long term action

Incorporate sustainability best practice into your operations

Use your sustainability vision, policy and strategy to inform any changes to your operations, procurement, and estate and site management.

Low costLong term action

Establish an outdoor learning programme

Building on the outdoor learning activities you’ve been conducting and the feedback you’ve collected from relevant stakeholders, create a long term, structured programme. Use the challenges and lessons you’ve learnt from this experience as an opportunity to improve the future provision.

Low costLong term action

Embed outdoor learning into the culture and ethos of your setting

Review how you integrate outdoor activities and experiences into daily routines and educational practices. You might look at the frequency of outdoor activities, integration levels across different subjects, your numbers of trained staff and their levels of expertise, learners’ engagement time, and inclusion in school policy and strategy documents.

Low costLong term action