Green Gown Awards 2013 - Best Newcomer - Manchester Adult Education Services - Finalist

Growing a greener generation

The project has improved the knowledge and skills of staff, learners and their families about what they can do to save and sustain resources in their home, neighbourhood and city. This is a project where sustainability skills and knowledge are developed in a variety of settings, so learning is crossing the generations to provide a strong foundation for these to grow. The project has enabled the sharing of best practice, improved communication between staff and increased intergenerational learning.

The project has driven behaviour change across the organisation and harnessed distributed leadership network around Carbon Literacy. This has led to reduced energy, printing, photocopying and materials costs in the Service, and most crucially feedback from learners informs us of reduced energy costs in homes, bulk buying and increased recycling. The project has meant that the Service has been recognised within MCC with a Silver award in the Green Impact Programme, has contributed to one of its partners meeting its Green Flag criteria and is recognised as a key partner in “Manchester A Certain Future” - the City’s carbon reduction project.

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