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?

This course is for people in the following roles in trusts of all sizes:

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
Practice approaches to measuring success and managing performance

Meet your seminar leaders

Robert Gould, Partner, Barker Associates

Alex Green, Schools Lead, Ashden

What previous participants have said

"This has provided so much food for thought as well as useful practical resources. I like the message ‘just start’! Thanks for the guidance and advice.”

"A fantastic and thorough overview of sustainability in schools.”

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.

Seminar content