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It's so important to engage and involve your staff, volunteers and trustees in what you are doing.
Add sustainability/ environmental actions to your team/ board/ volunteer meetings, encourage staff and volunteers to becoming green champions and collectively discuss and agree the changes you could make to reduce your carbon emissions.
Encourage your team to come up with and action ideas, eco-activities and challenges. Some ideas to get you started:
Follow the Share link and share any actions you've been taking to inspire other similar organisations.
Include information about the steps you've been taking on your website, in e-newsletters and on social media.
Shout about what you've done and why, what you have learnt and what benefits it has brought you.
Ask your local council about what they can do to support you. They might have schemes to help improve energy efficiency of buildings, or to carry out energy audits.
You don't know if you don't ask.
Have a conversation with your funders and/or corporate partners/ supporters about your ambitions/ plans to be more environmental sustainable and see how they might also be able to help and support you.
If enough organisations ask for help, they're more likely to respond with action.
Include sustainability as a core part of your staff and volunteer training and development processes, encouraging staff and volunteers to take up learning in this area.
Ensure you cover environmental sustainability in your staff induction process. It is important that sustainability is ingrained in the organisation so by making sure new staff and volunteers are aware of it at the beginning, they know how important it is to consider in every aspect of work.
Open working is a great way to share what you've been doing.
It helps others to understand your challenges and how you've overcome them and encourages others to make progress.
Why not write a blog sharing what climate action you've taken, why and what you've learnt, and share it via social media.
We've taken the SME Climate Pledge to reduce our climate emissions
We've had our environmental policy approved by the board so we have a plan of what steps we can take to reduce our carbon emissions.
The WEA North East is an educational charity and has an exciting programme of free environmental courses to coincide with COP26 the UN Climate Change Conference. There is a wide range of subjects including crafts, beekeeping, climate change, gardening and cookery some are taking place online and some are face to face in local venues.
If you're a VCSE based in the North East and you've done something about the climate crisis, please share your action with us. We'd love to share it on this website, to inspire others.
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