Resilience
We are seeing the impacts of our changing climate right now, and they are only set to get worse. We need to prepare our organisations and communities with the ability to bounce back and protect those most vulnerable.
Steps you can take
Engage your team - staff, volunteers and trustees
It's so important to engage and involve your staff, volunteers and trustees in what you are doing.
Add sustainability/ environmental actions to your team/ board/ volunteer meetings, encourage staff and volunteers to becoming green champions and collectively discuss and agree the changes you could make to reduce your carbon emissions.
Encourage your team to come up with and action ideas, eco-activities and challenges. Some ideas to get you started:
- hold an ethical bake off
- organise an office book/ clothes/unwanted gifts swap shop
- create monthly green challenges for employees and volunteers e.g. wear the same clothes week/ veggie or vegan no waste lunch/ no car day/week.
Case Studies
Actions from the North East and Cumbria
We've taken the SME Climate Pledge to reduce our climate emissions
We've had our environmental policy approved by the board so we have a plan of what steps we can take to reduce our carbon emissions.
The WEA North East is an educational charity and has an exciting programme of free environmental courses to coincide with COP26 the UN Climate Change Conference. There is a wide range of subjects including crafts, beekeeping, climate change, gardening and cookery some are taking place online and some are face to face in local venues.
Have you taken action?
If you're a VCSE based in the North East and you've done something about the climate crisis, please share your action with us. We'd love to share it on this website, to inspire others.
