Green Impact

Here at your Guild, we measure ourselves in terms of our environmental impact, and call it our 'Green Impact'. Green Impact is a programme run by NUS (National Union of Students), and allows us to benchmark ourselves across other unions and continually develop our understanding of environmental issues and how we can affect change.

To find out how we’ve addressed these environmental issues, please read on.

What We’ve Done

In the past the Guild has made many significant changes in order to become more environmentally friendly and sustainable, including:

• Installing solar panels on Tennis Courts accommodation.
• Increased energy efficiency in the Guild through loft insulation, sealing off external windows and replacing fluorescent to energy efficient LED lighting
• Continually monitoring our electrical consumption
• Reducing single use plastic use in all of our venues.
• Reducing our energy consumption by 18.9% within the last year by updating our lighting systems, powering our PCs down at the end of the day and supporting students and staff with free LED light bulbs and smart plugs! Keep talking about it!
• A motion has been passed to boycott fossil fuel recruiters – read Redbrick’s article all about it.
• Revised our menu offering in Joes Bar!
• We continue to work with the University in order to gain our Fairtrade Accreditation.
• We make sure that Sustainability is at the forefront of any partner we work with!
• Each year we also host Go Green Week, which aims to raise awareness of all things sustainability and host events to promote cleaner and greener lifestyles.

And much more!

Our current Green Impact ranking is Excellent, but we’ll continue to make progress each year to maintain our accreditation and ensure we’re doing all we can to work towards a greener, more sustainable future.