Program Overview

Introduction to Green Impact

Green Impact is a staff sustainability programme designed to empower and encourage sustainable action while building community across the university. The programme aims to make sustainability practical, achievable, and inclusive for every member taking part.

Programme Overview

The idea behind Green Impact is simple: break the University's sustainability goals into manageable actions, and empower staff to take part in ways that suit their roles, schedules, and capacity. The university worked with SOS-UK, a student-led charity, to create an online toolkit for staff that reflects the climate action principles.

Programme Structure

The programme features a tiered awards system based on points after submission. Student auditors volunteer their time to verify the evidence teams have provided.

Awards and Recognition

In the first year of Green Impact, the following awards were given:

• 5 gold awards
  • Department of Psychology
  • Campus Infrastructure Engineering Team
  • Campus Services
  • School of Management
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Professional Services Team
• 2 silver awards
  • Centre for Learning and Teaching
  • Skills Centre
• 3 bronze awards
  • Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST)
  • The Library
  • Institute for Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC)
• 4 green awards
  • Careers and Employer Engagement team
  • International Relations Office
  • Placements and Employability Team in Engineering & Design
  • Department of Social and Policy Sciences

Programme Impact

In the first year, 25 teams took part, with 21 departments represented and 190 staff actively involved. Green Impact is building a culture where sustainability is part of the everyday, visible in how staff work together and make decisions. The toolkit encourages collaboration and innovation, giving everyone the opportunity to embed sustainability and thrive as changemakers.