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Cut Your Carbon

Supported by the Bupa Foundation, Cut Your Carbon is back for 2024! This month-long, carbon-cutting challenge takes place throughout November. It encourages young people and their families to complete six simple actions to raise awareness and reduce their carbon footprint. The campaign offers free resources, competitions, and online events to make learning about carbon emissions accessible, fun, and engaging. Register now to join the challenge!

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Register to Cut Your Carbon

Complete our quick sign-up form to register for Cut Your Carbon. Once registered, you’ll be e-mailed the resources needed to deliver the campaign, including the 6 Challenge Checklist, a Cut Your Carbon assembly, our Teacher Delivery Guide and printable Pupil Certificates. You’ll also get updates about the campaign, including details on our free events and competitions.

Register

Cut Your Carbon Webinars

As part of Cut Your Carbon 2024, we will be delivering two free online sessions to support school sustainability leads:

  • An Introduction to Carbon Literacy
  • Using Count Your Carbon to Form a Carbon Action Plan.

Click the link to find out more about each session and book your spot.

Free Webinars

Cut Your Carbon Socials

Spread the Cut Your Carbon message far and wide via your school’s social media channels. Use one of our ready-made posts, or challenge pupils to create their own. Don’t forget to use #CutYourCarbon

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Submit Results, Win a Mural

To calculate the combined impact of schools and celebrate your success, we want to know how you got on. At the end of Cut Your Carbon month, complete our quick and easy impact survey. As a thank you, every school or nursery that submits results will be entered into a prize draw to win a mural for their school by a talented artist. Two winners will be chosen!

Submit Results

Keep Cutting Carbon

Following a month of carbon cutting activity, you may be wondering, ‘What next?’ Well, Cut Your Carbon will be back in 2025, but in the meantime, click the link for more programmes that your school can get involved with.

Keep Cutting Carbon