Previous Projects

To prevent waste, students and staff swapped Christmas jumpers instead of buying them new!

We provided eBikes and training to help get teachers out of their cars and into more active travel

How to monitor your schools for energy and water consumption in school for free.  

In October 2016, Sustainable Schools hosted an environmental careers event aimed at Y9-Y13 students

Our global goals showcase took place on 17 May 2017 - take a look at this exciting project!

Combining creative culinary skills and gardening, your school is challenged to design a three course menu and grow a minimum of 5 ingredients in your Mealbarrow!

Leicester city schools were encouraged to participate in pollution-reducing activities to meet criteria for the schools award

Find out about the Leicester Litter Less campaign and how schools got involved in 2019

Finding new ways of reducing and preventing litter/littering through new methods and interventions

Leicester schools and community groups pledged to fundraise for LOROS to help to support people with life limiting illnesses and their families

The aim of our Lower Carbon Lunches workshops was to raise awareness about the climate impacts of food and to reduce waste associated with school meals in the city. The project was designed to support schools in reducing the carbon footprints of…

24 Leicester schools are taking part in an exciting year-long project that will see pupils learn all about pollinators and transform their school grounds to support them.

Find out about our Postcard to Paris competition and awards evening

In early March 2018 Leicester City Council hosted a regional conference entitled ‘Creating Young Leaders in Sustainable Development’

Running Out of Time 2023 is a 2000km relay in summer 2023 from Ben Nevis to Big Ben in the name of climate action. This year’s relay will take place between 10 June and 11 July and will pass through Leicester on Tuesday 27 June.

This is a river restoration programme which aims to transform the Saffron Brook/Wash Brook Catchment. This will be done by restoring the river, recreating, and conserving habitats and creating footpaths along the river. For this project there will be…

In this programme a number of schools were allocated funding and support to deliver energy efficiency measures including solar panels (solar PVs)

The Show the love campaign was designed to get the public engaging with their MPs about climate change

Students challenged themselves to read six books over the summer holidays and helped the Wild World Heroes to solve environmental issues

Now the pumpkin growing competition, schools got involved in growing their own sunflowers at school

Our brand-new Pumpkin Garden competition will encourage students to grow pumpkins in the school grounds.

Engage your MPs around climate change by sending them a green heart

The Ink Bin can accept all small ink cartridges, and many of them are sent for recycling and reselling - a little like a reusable bottle. Funds are raised for the HP and Cannon cartridges (with a copper strip), however they will collect other ink…

Increasing awareness of the impact of plastic waste in our river and marine environments by spraying stencils around drains on and around the school grounds.

Widen my path was a government approved website that enabled people to identify locations in need of social distancing aid