Friends and Partners

Green Impact is proud to be partnered with and sponsored by a range of excellent organisations. We’re truly grateful for their continued support, helping us to deliver Green Impact in the most far reaching and effective way possible.

NUS ethical and environmental department

Green Impact is just one of several programmes championed by the E&E department of NUS. As part of our shared five year strategy, we turn students’ unions into hubs of sustainabilty, influencing not only their parent institutions but the wider communities around them, as well as installing green habits within students which thrive, and influence, for a lifetime.

 

 

Student Switch Off is a inter-halls of residence energy saving competition, encouraging students to reduce their levels of energy consumption. Prizes for effective engagement include Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, or an end of year party – incentives which mean the scheme achieves a 15% level of engagement from all students in halls of participating institutions, and a 6% drop in overall energy consumption.

 

Student Eats supports institutions across the UK in cultivating their own student-led growing sites. As more and more students become interested in growing their own produce, as well as being conscientious of the ethical and environmental impact of their food choices, Student Eats is a great opportunity to grow, eat and share food which is organic, nutritious, fresh, local, low-carbon and – most importantly of all – delicious.

 

 

Snap it Off was created in response to concerns from students about how much energy is being wasted through unnecessary lighting. When a student spots a light on in an empty room, or in daylight, or just too many lights, they can simply take a photo, send it to Snap It Off and then check back later to see  if the energy wastage they spotted has been resolved. One entry a month wins John Lewis vouchers.

 

Green Gauge is a research package designed to aid universities in achieving key HEFCE emission reduction targets through understanding the impact of environmentally-friendly student and staff attitudes and behaviours, as well as feedback on existing university environmental schemes, impacts and longevity through surveys with staff and students.

 

Friends of Green Impact

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change Agents UK (formally StudentForce for Sustainability) is the only charity in Europe that solely focuses on young people and graduates working and learning to boost their employability, as well as the sustainability of communities and employers.

Change Agents UK work with NUS to recruit, train and support sustainable behaviour assistants at our participating institutions. Since 2009 they have placed 37 graduates to help deliver Green Impact with great innovation, enthusiasm and creativity, whilst working together to form a strong network of young professionals across the UK.

This year they will also be working with us on our new Green Impact project assistant roles to offer students longer term volunteering opportunities throughout our participating organisations.

 

 

 

This year we have partnered with S-Labs: safe, successful, sustainable, to deliver their set of laboratory based criteria through our workbook.

Green Impact Students’ Union Sponsors

 

 

The Co-operative Group is the UK’s largest mutual business, owned not by private shareholders but by over six million consumers.The Co-operative sponsors the International Development Award, which recognises the positive influence that students’ unions can have on international development.

 

The Co-operative Bank has a natural affinity with the aims and values of the National Union of Students and this has been shown through past collaborations and continuing work through sponsoring our Most Improved Union award, and in their commitment to ‘Inspiring Young People’. They are also the only UK high street bank with a customer-led Ethical Policy which governs the way they do business.

 

 

 

 

Resurgence & the Ecologist magazine contains information and inspiration for people who care about the environment, enjoy reading, relish new ideas and are looking for inspiration on sustainable living. They sponsor the Communications Challenge award – a competition between one minute films conveying an environmental message.

 

 

 

 

 

Making ethical and informed decisions on our purchases is a responsibility we all have, to ensure a sustainable future for our planet. Epona are the leading supplier of clothing made from Fairtrade certified cotton to UK Universities. Epona sponsor the Ethical Procurement Award – celebrating students’ unions which make commendable procurement decisions based on a sound ethical purchasing code.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) champions excellent learning and teaching in higher education. The HEA Education for Sustainable Development Award will celebrate innovative work undertaken by students’ unions to embed sustainability (or sustainable development) across the student experience.  Applications are requested from students’ unions who have undertaken projects, initiatives, or campaigns that have led to positive change for sustainability in one or more areas of the student experience.