Climate Leaders’ Conference

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

Taking climate action in your education setting

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.

Opportunities to network, make connections and speak to colleagues and organisation

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.