Environmental Sustainability
We are all starting to experience the impact of climate change, whether through extreme heat and drought or heavy rainfall and flooding. Thankfully, there is lots of support available to clubs and groups who are looking to become more sustainable and climate resilient.
The links below provide some inspiration to help get you started with some simple, low-cost actions and information about potential funding sources for when you are ready to go further.
Buddle provides free learning and resources to for clubs and community organisations offering sport and physical activity and they have a section on Environmental Sustainability full or useful resources and case studies. Visit their website here.
Community sports clubs and physical activity groups looking to become more environmentally friendly and sustainable are being encouraged to apply to our Movement Fund.
A proportion of the fund has been reserved for green sports initiatives that help the sector respond to the impact of climate change.
Sport and physical activity organisations can bid for between £300 and £15,000 from the Movement Fund to promote environmental sustainability.
Find out more here.
BASIS (the British Association for Sustainable Sport) have a range of resources on their website to help clubs and groups make the most of sustainability initiatives. These include a Carbon Calculator Toolkit, which you can access here.
ECB Tackling Climate Change Fund and Adaptation Toolkit
To support clubs applying for the Tackling Climate Change Fund, the ECB have produced an excellent toolkit of example projects relating to flood, drought and heat resilience, saving energy and water, and electric maintenance machinery.
This toolkit could be useful for a wide variety of clubs who own facilities. Note: The fund itself is only available to ECB-affiliated cricket clubs.
Find out more here.
