Climate Ambassadors
Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.
Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors
Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.
Identify your food and catering quick wins
Quick wins refer to easy, low-cost actions that deliver immediate or near-term benefits. As they require minimal planning or investment, it makes them a great starting point for settings with limited time and budget. They can also lay the foundation for more comprehensive, long-term environmental initiatives.
This action requires you to identify unnecessary or wasteful consumption across your food and catering. For example, this might include promoting low waste meals, encouraging a “take only what you'll eat” policy, improving your food and catering inventory system, and reviewing portion sizes and menus.
By focusing on small, visible actions across consumption hotspots, you’ll be able to show immediate results, motivating your community to support and engage in future sustainability efforts. This approach can decrease technology waste, and also result in cost savings that can then be reinvested into further sustainability projects.
Food can evoke strong emotions, so it's important to engage parents and learners (where appropriate) before agreeing which actions to take. Benefits include reducing waste, lowering costs, and promoting healthier eating habits among learners. This will also create fantastic learning opportunities on the topic of sustainable food habits for your whole setting.
This action requires you to identify unnecessary or wasteful consumption across your food and catering. For example, this might include promoting low waste meals, encouraging a “take only what you'll eat” policy, improving your food and catering inventory system, and reviewing portion sizes and menus.
By focusing on small, visible actions across consumption hotspots, you’ll be able to show immediate results, motivating your community to support and engage in future sustainability efforts. This approach can decrease technology waste, and also result in cost savings that can then be reinvested into further sustainability projects.
Food can evoke strong emotions, so it's important to engage parents and learners (where appropriate) before agreeing which actions to take. Benefits include reducing waste, lowering costs, and promoting healthier eating habits among learners. This will also create fantastic learning opportunities on the topic of sustainable food habits for your whole setting.
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