Sustainability strategy for school trusts

How to create an engaging, cost-effective plan and manage performance

This course will demonstrate what the development of a sustainability strategy involves, taking you thought how to structure, resource and embed it in your trust. It will illustrate where it sits within your wider trust strategy, including how it links to your financial and estates management planning, to your educational vision and to your values as an organisation. It will also offer practical advice on how to meet the challenges that you may encounter in turning plans into successful and impactful sustainability initiatives across your schools.

Who is it for?

  • Chief finance officers, chief operating officers and estates directors
  • Trust leaders with responsibility for sustainability strategy

What you will gain

This course will give you:

  • A fresh perspective on where your trust is on its sustainability journey
  • A tested framework and tools for creating your trust’s strategy
  • Ideas for how to save costs and reduce carbon emissions
  • Guidance on how to embed the strategy and engage your organisation
  • Practical approaches to measuring success and managing performance

Course overview

As we continue to work towards Net Zero carbon emissions across our public organisations, this three-part series gives you a step-by-step guide on how to build and implement your trusts’ sustainability strategy. Delivered by an inspiring and informative coalition of sustainability experts and trust practitioners, it gives you access to a wealth of specialist expertise and signposts the latest free-to-access tools and resources.

Session one: Creating your strategy

  • The key components of sustainability
  • Targets and opportunities
  • Creating a sustainability policy and strategy

Session two: Energy efficiency

  • Four key areas of energy efficiency
  • Developing your energy strategy
  • Delivering and funding energy efficiency projects

Session three: Engagement and monitoring

  • Using engagement to shape policy and drive action.
  • Embedding values and behavioural change
  • Monitoring impact

Course speakers

03 Jun 2026 02:00 pm to
03:30 pm

10 Jun 2026 02:00 pm to
03:30 pm

17 Jun 2026 02:00 pm to
03:30 pm

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Trust leadership masterclass

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  • CST members £270+VAT
  • Non-members £330+VAT

Environment and sustainability Estates and facilities Finance and operations Public benefit and civic duty