Environmental sustainability

NAVCA recognises that all our activities have environmental impacts. These resources below will help organisations to consider how they can become more environmentally sustainable.

More on what NAVCA does to minimise our own environmental impact can be found on the about us pages.

Shaping our future

NAVCA was part of the joint ministerial and third sector task force on climate change, the environment and sustainability. The report it produced - Shaping our future - focuses on the opportunities that tackling climate change offers: the opportunity to show leadership, to build resilient communities, to develop and provide sustainable public services, to secure green jobs and to encourage and support individual and community level behaviour change.

NAVCA publications

Creating your Green Action Plan (pdf, 1.03 MB).

Tips and ideas for how to develop a sustainable action plan for your organisation.

Our newsletter, Circulation, has regular articles on environmental issues:

• Be Humankind (Better communication on climate change) February/March 2011(Word, 370 KB)
• Mapping community action (and climate change) December 2010/January 2011 (Word, 281 KB)
• Shaping our future June/July 2010 (Word, 285 KB)
• 1010 - taking action on climate change February/March 2010 (Word, 281 KB)
• It's our environment too! (Black Environment Network's Rainbow Project) February/March 2010 (Word, 281 KB)
• Funders go green August/September 2008 (Word, 43 KB)
• Climate Change: it's everyone's problem June/July 2008 (Word, 47 KB)
• How green is your office? April/May 2008 (Word, 43 KB)
• Care for your area December 2007/January 2008 (Word, 45 KB)
• Recyle more! October/November    2007 (Word, 46 KB)
• Rethinking how we travel August/September 2007 (Word, 50 KB)
• Act now to shop ethically, June/July 2007 (Word, 364 KB)

Our email bulletin LINX regularly contains information on environment and sustainability.

EAC factsheets

• Climate Change and Your Office - Frequently Asked Questions and Myth Busting (pdf, 31 KB)
• Developing and Implementing an SD Action Plan (pdf, 22 KB)
• First Steps to Saving Energy in the Office (pdf, 27 KB)
• Green and Ethical Purchasing - 10 First Steps (pdf, 27 KB)

EAC guides

• Changing the way we work (pdf, 4.9 MB)Changing your organisation to benefit your environment and save you money.
• Changing for good - An EAC guide to sustainable planning (pdf, 642 KB) How to put sustainable development into practice inside your organisation.
• Events guide (pdf, 406 KB) How to run sustainable events.
• Finance guide (pdf, 337 KB) Practical advice to help you weave sustainable actions through your existing financial processes.
• Governance guide (pdf, 590 KB) Practical advice to help you weave sustainable development through your existing governance processes and the activities of your board.
• Heroes booklet (pdf, 1.84 MB) Celebrates individuals who make change happen in their communities.
• People Management Guide (pdf, 342 KB) How to manage your people in an environmental way.
• What happens when every action counts (pdf, 1.88 MB) Examples of good practice from the third sector.
• Your community building counts (pdf, 2.78 MB) Make your community building even more of an asset by minimising its impact on the environment .

EAC information for Development Workers

The Federation of Community Development Workers provides useful training materials and guides on the the theme of environment and sustainability

EAC Community Champions

EAC trained 800 'Community Champions' to help community groups, clubs and societies to create an action plan for a more sustainable future. To find out how a community champion can help your organisation, see the EAC pages of the BTCV website.