Green Impact 2019/20 – get involved

September 17, 2019

You will have seen the amazing awards that our teams achieved last year, taking part in our sustainability action project across our workplace. This year is going to be bigger and better with Green Impact, with more people excited to take part, and therefore bigger positive changes being made to the Trust as a result.

What is Green Impact?

Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme designed to support environmentally and socially sustainable action within organisations. It runs at over 600 different organisations across the world, and our Trust is one of 10 hospitals, 370 GP practices and 30 dentist surgeries taking part to make change happen within the NHS. Work as a team in your department to take actions that will make a big difference for you and the wider Trust, collect points and win awards. Simple!

How do you take part?

We have a bespoke toolkit of actions, just for our Trust. You can find it at www.greenimpact.org.uk/swb. If you are new to the project, simply register with your name and emails, and either a join a team that is already set up or create your own. If you took part last year, log in with the same details to start your 2019 competition. You can then work through as many of the actions as you like between now and the spring, choosing the actions most suited to your department and suggesting new ideas we may not have thought of. There are Bronze, Silver and Gold awards available for every team that takes part, and you can find out how to achieve them within the toolkit itself.

What is new this year?

Last year’s teams gave great feedback. Green Impact have listened, and have made a few tweaks to help more teams take part and help make the journey to your awards more simple. They have made the ‘getting started’ area a bit more streamlined, and have amended some of the Bronze, silver and gold actions too. The scoring is nice and simple – if you achieved a Bronze or Silver award last year, progressing to the next level only requires you to complete the mandatory actions from the previous level. This way the basics are still happening in every team, but you have more time to concentrate on the things that matter to you. You can also use actions you tool last year to add to this year’s toolkit – the ‘help’ section will explain how to do that.

Want help?

For more information on everything sustainability, please contact francesca.silcocks@nhs.net.

Be sure to check out this video featuring Fran Silcocks, Sustainability Officer and other colleagues discussing how the Trust has begun a number of projects to promote a healthier relationship with our environment.