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Case study: Sustainable schools

Among the winners in last year’s Ashden Sustainable Schools Awards was North Warwickshire and Hinckley College. Principal Marion Plant explains what they did and how

North Warwickshire and Hinckley College has 14,000 students over five campuses. The college first started to think about its impact on the environment back in 2010 when the Carbon Trust helped us to develop a five-year plan to manage our carbon output, worth an enormous £2 million per annum. This plan was linked to the college’s own Sustainable Development Action Plan which is reviewed and updated annually.

It set us some ambitious targets to hit by the end of August 2015 which we managed to meet and then, with almost perfect timing, we found out that we were one of the 2015 Ashden Sustainable School Award winners in October.

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