Universities and Colleges
About
Working in over 50 further and higher education institutions across the UK, the programme engages around 1000 teams and 50,000 staff each year.
Key to the success of the online workbook engaging staff in taking small tangible actions that help to create a greener institution is our support of student volunnteers, who gain training and experience as team assistants and in auditing the staff’s actions.
The programme is always developing and is keen to respond to the needs and innovations coming from the staff and students on the ground to make it an ever improving way of building capacity for change.
Project cycle
Green Impact works on an annual cycle, to enable yearly development and longer term sustainability. NUS works with a lead contact at each institution and supports them, their teams and their higher management throughout the whole process.
The year is a 5 stage cycle, though exact timings are flexible to each institution:
Our fantastic online workbook outlines carefully selected criteria that teams can work through together and gain points according to their difficulty.
Over the course of the programme they accrue points, and submit a completed workbook. We then train students to audit the departments and verify their work, providing unique employability skills and experience for those taking part.
And finally, we reward each and every department with Working Towards, Bronze, Silver, Gold and an ever increasing number of higher awards, each presented at institution specific awards ceremonies to celebrate the impressive variety of green practices achieved across the year.
