{"id":13051,"date":"2025-10-30T07:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odmsolutions.co.za\/gecco\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:00:32","slug":"sustainability-schemes-for-ey-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2025\/10\/30\/sustainability-schemes-for-ey-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Schemes for EY Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From sustainability tool kits to awards, there\u2019s a lot of support and many routes to achieving and shouting about your sustainability credentials! Here are a few to explore:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Count Us In<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Making Changes That Matter. These 16 steps are the most effective way to reduce your carbon pollution and persuade others to do the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Planet Mark Sustainability Certification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A programme that recognises your commitment to continuous improvement in sustainability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Transform Our World<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Clean Air for Schools Framework is a free, online tool to help every school create a tailored clean air action plan to tackle air pollution in and around the school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Become a Plastic Free Business Champion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Register to get your free Business Champion Toolkit from Surfers Against Sewage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Doughnut Economics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century \u2013 and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there. Needs adaption for EY sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Food for Life Early Years Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Show the wider world you\u2019re providing tasty, nutritious meals in an environment that creates great social skills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Early Years Eco Wheel Scheme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A membership-based toolkit to support Early Years settings become more eco-sustainable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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B Corp Certification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Certified B Corporations are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eco-Schools for Early Years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A framework followed by millions of young people around the world since 1994, now adapted for early years settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Plastic Free Nurseries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A programme tackling unnecessary single-use plastics in nurseries across the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Education for Sustainable Development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bespoke training, consultancy, resources and sustainable citizenship award. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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From sustainability tool kits to awards, there\u2019s a lot of support and many routes to achieving and shouting about your sustainability credentials! Here are a few to explore: Count Us In Making Changes That Matter. These 16 steps are the most effective way to reduce your carbon pollution and persuade others to do the same. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}