Net Zero toolkit
The Leicestershire Communities net zero toolkit aims to provide a starting point for town and parish councils and community groups to address climate action and reduce energy costs in their local community.
Volunteer
You can apply to become an Environment Action Volunteer if you're aged 18 years or over and have an interest in helping Leicestershire residents or communities to reduce their waste, recycle more, protect and improve the environment and to live more sustainably. You do not need any previous knowledge of waste or environmental topics to apply, just a keen interest.
Talks and education
We offer a wide range of free talks to community groups in Leicestershire focussing on waste prevention, recycling, and composting. Visit Lesswaste to find more.
Resources for schools
Support we offer:
- Waste and environmental activities - information and resources covering waste and environmental topics for schools.
- A range of free interactive engagement activities for schools on reuse, recycling, composting and household food waste.
- Help, advice and support with your green efforts: Sustainability and climate change guidance to support nurseries, schools and colleges (PDF)
- Sustainability Network - education effectiveness, working alongside departments across the county council and key external parties, is offering a sustainability network for all nurseries, schools and colleges in Leicestershire. It aims to:
- create a network of sustainability leaders at each school, who continue to share knowledge and best practice when teaching about sustainability and implementing initiatives within the school
- connect with peers to share ideas and resources around climate change, sustainability, nature and the environment
- learn from each other and network with other like-minded schools
- become more sustainable, through advice, support and best practice shared across schools
- positively impact and inspire our communities by improving the sustainability of the environment in and around education settings and the knowledge and understanding of children and young people
For more information regarding the Sustainability Network please email: educationeffectiveness@leics.gov.uk
Other support:
- Let’s Go Zero - a national campaign that provides schools with free support and advice on their journey to net zero.
- National Education Nature Park - a platform supplying free programmes for educators to embed climate and nature into learning.
Local Community Groups
Join one of the various environment actions groups around Leicestershire, where you can meet like-minded people and work together to make our communities more climate friendly.
Some of the many groups that exist in Leicestershire include:
If you would like your environmental action group adding to this list please get in touch with the Environment team.