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Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community

Environmental Sustainability

Our Environmental Sustainability Commitments and Policy:

Climate considerate; taking action on energy and carbon to become net zero

We are committed to reducing our direct emissions significantly, making energy efficiencies and renewable sources our priority and eventually offsetting residual emissions where we are unable to completely eliminate. We will reduce our indirect emissions by working closely with our supply chain especially long-term partnerships and by embedding environmental sustainability throughout our curriculum.

Nature hopeful; being stewards of biodiversity, water, and air to enhance the natural world

We are committed to helping restore nature and encouraging it to flourish in our outdoor spaces no matter how big or small. By creating and educating about healthy ecosystems we will improve the health and wellbeing of our staff, students and local communities whilst preventing pollution and supporting our estates to be resilient to the changing climate.

Self-controlled consumers; acting responsibly regarding waste to use resources sustainably

We are committed to evolving to a circular economy where resources are truly valued. They are sourced, produced, used, and disposed of sustainably, and as consumers, we are making conscious choices through education to achieve this. We will consider whole life cycles, from the food we serve to the academies we build, so that efficiency is optimised, and waste avoided.

To read more about our commitments in our Environmental Sustainability Policy, click here.

Our trust-wide targets:

Our Environmental Sustainability Team Structure:

The Environmental Sustainability Team at Oasis Community Learning is made up of our National Environmental and Sustainability Manager and Environmental Team Coordinator. They work nationally across the Trust to support the network of Eco-Champions at each of our academies. Our Eco-Champions are our academy Sustainability Leads, a DfE required role as a person responsible for leading sustainability efforts in their academy. The National Environmental and Sustainability Manager oversees this responsibility for the Trust.

The Environmental Team meet with the Eco-Champions every half term to share ideas and support others in making change in their own settings. Many of our Eco-Champions run an eco-team made up of climate-passionate students and lots of our academies have been running their own sustainability weeks to spread the word and turn ideas into actions. We also have a trustee who represents sustainability on our board.

if you would like to contact the Environmental Team please email: Environmentand.Sustainability@oasisuk.org

What our academies are doing

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The Net Zero Accelerator
The Net Zero Accelerator

The Net Zero Accelerator (NZA) is a fully funded programme aimed at decarbonising schools, with five Oasis academies involved. The project focuses on reducing energy consumption and more. Click to read.