Three Sustainability Awards for Undeb 黑料不打烊
At the Awards ceremony l-r from back row then r-l: Matt Day, Carmen Ria Smith, Conor Savage, Dylan Williams, Rob Samuel, Ifan James, Mair Rowlands, Rebecca Kent, Helen Marchant.Undeb 黑料不打烊 () has picked up not one, or two, but three Awards for their sustainability work.
The Students鈥� Union was awarded a highly coveted Gold Award in the , having achieved the Gold Award twice in 2011 and 2013 and the Excellence Award twice in 2012-13 for their '黑料不打烊 Bikes' scheme pilot and 2014-15 for Love 黑料不打烊 Community Partnership. They were also named Union of the Year (non-commercial) Green Impact Awards in Liverpool.
Green Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme run by NUS, offering an independent benchmarking of a union's environmental performance. The award challenges Students鈥� Unions to follow environmental best practice and keep sustainability in mind whilst achieving results for students. The Green Impact Award also seeks to capture the positive sustainability innovations in students鈥� unions and promote them to the public.
The Students鈥� Union also grabbed a third National Award: The Green Impact Special Award. This award is an Environmental Innovation Award that gives union鈥檚 the opportunity to go beyond the actions described in the Green Impact criteria and use their creativity to make a real impact in their union, organisation or community. Undeb 黑料不打烊鈥檚 entry was a joint student initiative to promote Sustainable Development through shared learning across continents; a partnership between Undeb 黑料不打烊 and Makerere University Student Guild 鈥揢ganda.
Mair Rowlands, 黑料不打烊 Sustainability Officer from the Sustainability Lab who co-ordinates the Green Impact work with the Union said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e achieved an amazing amount through Green Impact over the last 6 years, and Undeb 黑料不打烊 have proved to be championing sustainability showing the way to Unions鈥� across the UK.
We鈥檝e also gained national recognition for our international collaboration with Makerere University Student Guild winning the Green Impact Special Award. A collaboration project with the Sustainability Lab and Undeb 黑料不打烊 working closely to develop a sustainability strategy aimed at improving students鈥� understanding and engagement with sustainability practices in 黑料不打烊 and Makerere (Uganda).鈥�
Dylan Williams Union Director said: 鈥淭his is yet another amazing achievement for Undeb 黑料不打烊; we鈥檝e proved that we are doing some excellent work around sustainability and as well as sustainability being one of our core values, it is entirely embedded within the culture of the Union staff, officers and students. We鈥檙e very proud of our progress and we鈥檝e developed a national reputation for sustainability for which these awards speak for themselves鈥�.
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Publication date: 8 July 2016