Sustainability in the School and Community Clive Belgeonne (DECSY) and Thom Winterbotham (Learn Sheffield/Malin Bridge Primary)

This workshop will look at how the school and their community can play a part in tackling the climate and nature emergencies. It will look at understanding some of the key issues, how the school is impacting on them and what the key actions are for making a positive difference. Each school will come up with the beginnings of an action plan for change and have the opportunity to share their starting points with others and get ideas for where they can get support or work together.

The climate emergency programme has been developed with partners to support settings to address the climate and ecological emergencies. This includes the development of CPD for teachers and leaders to support them in identifying an engaging with a whole school climate programme. Please visit Training & Resources section for more details

Our expertise provides bespoke information to each school to help them understand how they use their energy and how through behaviour change, improved control and appropriate technology will lead to its more efficient use.

Provide bespoke workshops with schools to enable students to explore energy and interrelated sustainability concepts. Without this understanding the changes above will not be fully realised.

We are a social enterprise, established in 2015 to raise awareness of and reduce the scandal of food waste. We've grown to save over 500 tonnes of food per year and now work on building a fair and sustainable food system for everyone in Sheffield.

We do this through our Kitchen where we upcycle food, Market where we made food available to all and Farm where we grow our own food locally.

We work with 100s of committed volunteers whose time, passion and skill drive our ability to feed thousands of people each month.

The School Climate Challenge was organised by Ghazala Ahmad-Mear from Tideswell and Steve Platt from Hathersage. It ran with over 300 9-12 year-old children at all ten primary schools and the secondary school in Hope Valley. The Challenge got the children talking about climate change with their teachers and friends, and at home with their parents. They changed the way they travelled to school, they ate less meat and more plant based foods, they thought more about what they bought, they consumed less and they valued nature more. They wrote to their local MP demanding a change in government policy. Children became ambassadors, persuading and cajoling their families to take action on climate change.

Later we returned to the schools to see how they had got on with their pledges and how they had fared talking to their parents. Almost without exception the children had been able to involve the whole family in thinking about the climate emergency and in taking action. With the teacher’s help, the children filled in a tally itemising all the things their family was doing. The challenge showed that children are keen to do something about climate change and are able to mobilise their families to take action. 

Thanks to our funders, we are making a Teachers’ Pack freely available for non-commercial use by schools, and community climate action groups.  This contains all the material you need to run the Challenge in your own school or group.  

The outdoor learning team provide a wide range of unique, fun educational activities to fit with the curriculum for all ages.

Whether it is a school trip to one of our local nature reserves, incredible outdoor class activities at one of our partner sites (such as Ecclesall Woods, Our Cow Molly and Stoneface Creative) or based in your own school, we have the perfect educational visits and experiences to suit your needs and budget.

The importance of Water - at the conference the speaker will be addressing the issues around water scarcity and water usage and talking about the work of the charity Water Aid that they support.

Common Thread is a project born in 2010 out of a passion for crafts and up-cycling. Currently they run social exchanges of clothing, repair workshops and playful up-cycling activities. For the conference, Jess Dawson and her team will be demonstrating how to organise a clothes swap, discussing how fashion can have an impact on the planet and encouraging those attending to think about their future purchasing choices

Climate Psychology Alliance

Making sense of climate feelings

With Rachael Alexander and Rafia Hussain