I recently came across a company who supply solar panels to schools and who very interestingly told me that a lot of their installations are now paid for via crowdfunding initiatives. So in your quest for the Holy Grail of funding, this is certainly something that you should consider. I have therefore done some further […]
On my very many travels round schools, I always see picnic benches or tables which are made out of a re-cycled plastic composite material which does actually look like traditional timber, but isn’t. When I ask teachers why they bought these benches, the response is pretty much unanimous – although they are bit more expensive, the […]
This article is not really to tell you how you make the actual school building(s) more eco friendly and energy efficient but more so to inform how you can creatively engage the children, staff and parents in promoting sustainability and fostering a keen knowledge of all things “green” within an educational environment. You need to […]
As so many schools nowadays need to find alternative ways of funding our products outside of the main school budgets, I thought that I would put pen to paper as to how I would go about this if I were a school business manager or head teacher. And this information is based on our extensive […]
We are about to undertake quite a big project for St Marks Primary School in North London and their very active and generous PTA are now wanting to start fundraising for one of our Eco Centres with all of the “trimmings”. Their biggest fundraising event is the Summer Fayre held later this month so they came […]