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Our action group  promoting sustainability in Waltham Forest

Working towards a greener future

Led by one of our dedicated trustees our 'ecO' action group is making the postive changes urgently needed to safeguard the planet for our children.

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A history of being green

Built to last

We purchase high quality toys and equipment designed to last

Re-use

We re-use recyclable materials for

arts and crafts activities

Eating more plants

We've created

menus with a

healthy balance

of vegetarian and plant based foods 

Using less energy

We have conserved energy by turning off lighting and devices when not in use

Fewer plastic bottles

We've used water coolers to reduce plastic bottle use

Shorter supply chains

We buy from

local suppliers

wherever possible

Taking Action

We appointed a dedicated, trustee-led 'ecO' working group to drive our work and provide good governance

2023 Eco-Audit

After identifying that we wanted to go fruther to be more sustainble, we realised that we needed some expert assistance to assess just how sustainable we were.

We needed an eco-audit!

 

We bid for and were awarded funding from the City Bridge Foundation allowing us to bring in '3 Acorns' environmental consultants

to perform a full eco-audit with our teams.

 

Our eco-audit analysed everything from our energy and water consumption, consumables usage and waste output through to ingredients used in our menus and even the greenness of our banking suppliers!


Separating Waste
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Responding to our eco-audit

Actions we've already taken to reduce our carbon foot print

  • Food

    • We've increased the number of plant based options in our menus and completely removed the most polluting meat, beef.

  • Water

    • ​We've replaced plastic water syphons with filter jugs in our staff rooms and we're also exploring ways to:

      • completely eliminate plastic water bottles usage

      • collect rainwater safley for gardening and outdoors cleaning.

      • use cistern blocks and water usage awareness campaigns to reduce our consumption.

  • Finance

    • Most of our financial arrangemetns are now placed with ethical and eco-friendly providers. ​

    • We're exploring ways to bank more sustainably and ethically as a priority.

  • Waste

    • We've installed more recyling bins and made it much easier to spearate out the various materials

    • Composting bins are also now in place cutting out any food wastaging that would've gon to landfil.

  • Nappies

    • We are working hard to replace disposable nappies with reusable nappy kits in our centres and are currently piloting the switch in our Higham Hill Centre with a view to rolling out at the Lloyd Park Centre too.

    • Our Community Services team are also promoting resusable nappy usage in other community support sessions across Waltham Forest.
    • We couldn't have achieved this without the support of three amazing organisations;
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See our dedicated Cloth Nappy page here

Working with our community to address
the climate crisis

We want to go much further in working with our local community to build a greener, brighter future for our children, and we need your help!

Whether you're an interested parent/carer, a local service provider, another organisation working on sustainability or an individual with expertise to share, we want to hear from you!

If you have ideas to share or want to join our action group
please email us to find out more!

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