Events

Coordinated by the Facilities Management (Contracts) and Environmental teams, the series of events that form Waste Awareness Week were an opportunity to learn more about what happens to your waste and the importance of recycling.

Staff could also meet our waste partners to understand how our waste can be turned into a resource, and enter the recycling quiz to win a wireless Bluetooth speaker.

Following the success of our first Waste Awareness Week in 2022, we brought you more opportunities to learn about waste and recycling, win prizes, get involved, and have fun!

We hosted a series of fantastic events, to learn more about what happens to your waste and the importance of recycling. Events included BCU’s first ever Common-Waste Games!

The annual SOS-UK SDG Teach In takes place throughout March, calling on educators to pledge to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals in their teaching, learning and assessments.

To support the SDG Teach In, we ran an online session on Thursday 16 March 12-1pm, which provided an introduction to embedding sustainability in the curriculum.

We also encouraged staff to join the BCU Education for Sustainable Development community of practice.

We organised a variety of environmental activities for Graduate+ Week, including two sessions run by The Globe Foundation; Climate Change and Climate Futures.

The Community Environmental Trust and the Environmental Team also ran running drop-in activities in Curzon atrium on Monday 6 March 10am - 4pm, including the opportunity to make your own bee home from natural materials.

The Environmental Team took part in the City South Campus January Welcome event, encouraging students to sign up to the mailing list and play How Bad Are Bananas.

A refresh week was run for students, which included a variety of stalls to promote initiatives to students. The Environmental Team ran a stall to encourage joining our mailing list and sustainability groups. 

Instead of a running a separate Go Green Week this year, we incorporated environmental activities into Graduate+ Week. This included a wildflower plug planting session at Conservatoire, willow weaving with the Community Environmental Trust and workshops on Eco Eats and Eco Gifts by The Globe Foundation. The Environmental Team also ran stall to promote their work and play the How Bad Are Bananas game.

We ran an engaging stall at the BCUSU Welcome Fair, with goodies from The Clean Kilo to be won by anyone that signed up to our mailing list. We also promoted Hedgehog Friendly Campus and encouraged students to sign-up to our Sustainable Students Teams group and Bicycle User Group.

Drop-in sessions were held at both City Centre and City South Campus by  by the BCU Security Team, with WM Police and Bike Register. Advice was given, and discounted D-Locks and bike register marking kits were on sale.

Waste Awareness Week

We ran our first ever Waste Awareness Week, to encourage and promote reducing, reusing and recycling. Events included litter picks, a waste sort and segregate session and waste and recycling fairs. 

We celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight  this year with competitions, online events and delicious Fairtrade freebies.

We spent the month celebrating all things plant based, including Meat Free Monday menu options, plant-based food on a budget cooking demonstrations and tasting sessions, as well as a talk on how to make more environmentally friendly food choices with renowned Food Forward chef Jenny Chandler. BCU Catering also held vegan home baking stall roadshows across our campuses. The amazing Food Forward visited each campus, with cooking demonstrations and talks around the benefits of plant-based eating.

We have also set up a Veganuary Teams group for staff and students to share plant based recipes and ideas!

22 Feb – 7 March 2021