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Sustainability

Our Sustainability programme

We’re committed to helping Reading-based organisations embed sustainability into what they do and contribute to improving the local and wider environment.

We’re working to achieve this through:

  • Working together with other organisations on sustainability initiatives and providing sponsorship opportunities
  • Identifying sustainability champions within organisations and connecting them through events and a forum 
  • Providing sustainability training and support for champions and decision-makers
  • Signposting relevant resources and connecting businesses with sustainability expertise
  • Sharing success stories and examples of best practice
Redlands Primary School trees

Bringing more trees to Reading

We want to mobilise Reading-based businesses to help us make our town greener, healthier and happier.

We’re offering local organisations the opportunity to fund the planting and care of trees within the town through our Trees for Reading initiative. In response to demand, we’re also accepting donations from individuals, so the whole community can contribute.

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Are you a sustainability champion in your business?

We’re connecting sustainability champions at organisations across the Reading area to help them make an even bigger positive difference. 

Are you passionate about helping to improve your company’s eco credentials? Are you already shaking things up to minimise your business’s impact on the environment? Or are you simply frustrated about issues in your workplace like poor waste management?

If any of these sound like you, you would be welcome to join our growing network of sustainability champions – 80 and counting. You’ll then receive invitations to exclusive events and will be able to connect with fellow champions through our dedicated branch of the Sustaineers forum, for mutual support and inspiration.

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Sustainability champions
Active travel hub


Supporting active travel

We’re keen to support the development of active travel in Reading, especially to encourage people to cycle to work and back and for other local journeys.

We realise that worries about bike theft deter a lot of people from cycling, so we have been investigating ways we could collaborate with other local organisations to help. 

In the meantime, we’ve put together some other useful information for employers looking to encourage their staff to cycle to work. 

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Useful resources

Here is a collection of useful resources for you:

Blog post about the Reading Countdown - the first report tracking the links between climate change and health at a town or city level

A Public Health and Climate Change “Countdown” for Reading - the Reading Countdown report

Reading Countdown Policy Brief 1: Impact

Reading Countdown Policy Brief 2: Engagement

Reading Countdown Policy Brief 3: Taking action

Tips from Reading Climate Action Network to enable businesses to help Reading reach net zero by 2030

Blog post about our first session for sustainability champions on 3 June 2020

Useful insights and resources from IEMA to help businesses transition to net zero carbon

The Ethics of Sustainability, by Charles J. Kibert, Leslie Thiele, Anna Peterson and Martha Munroe (e-book)

A free guide to getting started with making your business more sustainable, by local corporate social responsibility consultant Tracey Rawling Church

A guide from Business in the Community to incorporating the principles of the circular economy into the way your office works

Presentation from our breakfast briefing on The Challenge of Climate Change, 26 November 2019

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