Thursday 6 March 2025 (9.30am-3.30pm)
City Campus, Sheffield Hallam University
We are very pleased to announce a Climate Leaders’ Conference for those in education, fully funded by Sheffield Hallam University, taking place on Thursday 6 March 2025. Sign up link at the bottom of this webpage.
If you are an organisation interested in attending, please complete the separate eForm.
Audience: Schools leaders: Trustees, Governors, CEOs and Trust Leaders, Heads and Deputy Heads, Early Years Setting Leads, Curriculum Leaders and Assistant Heads, Business Managers & Eco-Leads. We actively encourage Eco-Leads to attend with a school or trust leader.
Phase settings: Early Years Settings, Schools, Colleges and Trusts

Through its 2021 Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy, the Department for Education sets out an ambition that all education settings will have a sustainability lead and climate action plan in place by the end of 2025.
This one-day conference will support education settings, schools and trust leaders to understand the benefits of a sustainability leadership and climate action plans, support to develop a plan and identify opportunities to support their settings in taking action on climate change, sustainability and biodiversity.
Keynotes: Seniors Leaders from education settings and trusts in South Yorkshire and wider region.
Workshops: Strategic support from the Department for Education funded programmes ‘National Education Nature Park’ and ‘Climate Ambassadors’, Let’s Go Zero, Eco-Schools England and Academic Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University.

By the end of the day, leaders will have:
- Considered opportunities for climate action plans and considered how sustainability leadership could be structured in their setting
- Started to develop an action plan for their setting and understand how to calculate their setting’s carbon footprint
- Been signposted to organisations that can support them with developing climate action plans further
- Identified barriers and how they could overcome them
- Identified funding opportunities
Sign up today, deadline for signing up Friday 21 February 2025.
If you are an organisation interested in attending, please complete the separate eForm.