NAVCA and environmental sustainability

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Advocating Intelligent Commissioning: London

22 June 2010

London

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Empowering the Voluntary Sector - public law workshops

NAVCA and environmental sustainability

NAVCA recognises that all our activities have environmental impacts. Our organisation has a responsibility to protect our environment and our actions can make a difference. NAVCA members and staff are encouraged to consider the effects of everything we do on the national and global environment.

NAVCA has a sustainable development policy and action plan; more information is also available in Making NAVCA more environmentally sustainable.

A motion on Climate change, sustainable development and the local voluntary and community sector was passed at NAVCA's AGM in 2007.

NAVCA has also signed the Third Sector Declaration on Climate Change.

Articles on environmental issues are also included in our newsletter, Circulation:

Fighting climate change starts at local level, April/May 2007 Circulation (Word, 51 KB)
Act now to shop ethically, June/July 2007 Circulation (Word, 364 KB)
Rethinking how we travel August/September 2007 Circulation (Word, 50 KB)
Recyle more! October/November 2007 Circulation (Word, 46 KB)
Care for your area December 2007/January 2008 Circulation (Word, 45 KB)
How green is your office? April/May 2008 Circulation (Word, 43 KB)
Climate Change: it's everyone's problem June/July 2008 Circulation (Word, 47 KB)
Funders go green August/September 2008 Circulation (Word, 43 KB)

Our email bulletin LINX also has a regular section on environment and sustainability.

Every Action Counts

NAVCA was part of a consortium delivering Every Action Counts (EAC). This Defra-funded programme engaged national and local third sector organisations in work to protect and improve our environment and to deliver sustainable development solutions. The programme ran from autumn 2006 until March 2009.

The Every Action Counts website will remain active until end of June, and you can still access a host of useful information on how to make your organisation more environmentally sustainable:

EAC hints and tips

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.