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Eco-Schools

Working towards whole-school sustainability

Resource Futures supports the internationally-recognised Eco-Schools Award programme to help your school address challenges such as energy and carbon reduction, resource efficiency and environmental awareness. This pupil-led initiative provides a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.

Resource Futures offers support to schools in the teaching and learning aspects of their journey towards whole-school sustainability, making clear connections to national education requirements. In some of our project areas this support is subsidised by the local authority and may even be available free of charge.

We can offer:

  • training for teachers, governors and other school staff
  • class sessions with pupils
  • support for pupil Eco Action Teams
  • energy and waste audits
  • opportunities for teachers to join a local network and share experiences
  • information on funding and specialist advice
  • teaching and learning resources
  • links with local community initiatives

Joining the Eco-Schools programme is free and it makes tackling sustainable issues easy for all schools, whether children’s centres, nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools or schools with special status. Once registered, your school follows a simple seven-step process which addresses a range of environmental themes from litter and waste to healthy living and biodiversity.

Pupils are the driving force behind Eco-Schools. They lead the Eco Action Team and carry out an audit to assess the environmental performance of their school. Through consultation with the rest of the school and the wider community they decide which environmental themes they want to address and how they are going to do it. Measuring and monitoring is an integral part of the Eco-Schools programme, providing your school with all the evidence it needs to shout about its environmental success.

Project Synopses

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

Assessing Bulky Waste in Northern Ireland

Resource Futures carried out a comprehensive review of bulky wastes in Northern Ireland. The review considered quantities arising, types, sources and destinations of bulky waste materials; and importantly the capacity for reuse of such material.The report is intended to be a useful contribution to the waste prevention strand of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Good Practice Guidance

Whilst Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling activity is firmly established in the UK, its collection and treatment is a rapidly growing and evolving sector. WRAP research reveals that the average household has 3 old or broken WEEE items stored in the home, therefore there are millions of items out there just waiting to be collected…

News and Events

Resources North Summer Seminar - 9 July 2010

Food for Thought: Cogitating, Deliberating and Digesting the Food Waste Issue

Friday 9 July 2010
Heath Training and Development Centre, Free School Lane, Halifax, HX1 2PT

Resources North Spring Seminar 2010

Resources North Spring Seminar 2010 – Briefing Note
Commercial and Industrial Waste: Whose Business is it Anyway?

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