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PROJECTS

Read about some of the climate action, community, recruitment and education projects we work on.

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Key Projects This Year

North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub

We are pleased to have worked with the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub as their training partner for funded Carbon Literacy training, designed to empower the region with the knowledge, tools and confidence to inspire and lead community energy initiatives.

Climate Ambassadors

This UK Government programme trains volunteers to support climate action across our education sector. It provides every school, college and nursery in England with access to free support to become greener and more climate resilient though impactful climate action plans.

Change Agents are the national training partner and provide overall programme support.

Learn more & get involved

South West Net Zero Hub

We are pleased to continue our partnership with the South West Net Zero Hub (SWNZH). Delivering Carbon Literacy training to local authorities including their staff, elected members and council senior leaders.

Learn More about SWNZH

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Green Skills Bootcamps

From 2024 to 2026, we delivered Green Skills Bootcamps in Sustainability & Environmental Management for Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority, and Leicester City Council.

Our participants went on to roles in ESG, sustainability management, ethical procurement and much more!

First Hand Cross-Mentoring

Over five-weeks, we collaborated with events-led climate facilitators, First Hand, and youth experts We Rise, to deliver a cross mentoring scheme in London.

Together we hosted 12 sustainability advocates who sought to further their professional goals and systemic skillset through listening, challenging and exploring.

Future Graduate Skills

This scoping study, by Change Agents UK and the EAUC, examines perspectives from three key stakeholder groups: university leaders, business leaders, and recent graduates. It interrogates their opinions on what ‘sustainability skills’ are, which skills are important for employability and/or sustainability, and how they could be best instilled in students and young people.

Read Report

Rutland VCS Strategy

In 2023 Change Agents worked in partnership with Citizens Advice Rutland (CAR) and many local voluntary sector organisations to research the make-up of Rutland’s VCS and develop a sector strategy that would help VCS organisations meet the ongoing needs of local people.

Community Energy

We worked closely with Derbyshire Dales Community Energy Ltd to educate and inspire people across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire to get involved with community energy projects. Together we also developed a regional umbrella organisation that supports the creation, growth and innovation of community energy in the region.

Explore DDCE

Sainsburys Waste Less Save More

We recruited Change Agents to work with South Derbyshire District Council and Sainsburys to deliver their 'Waste Less Save More' campaign. The campaign aimed to reduce food waste in the area by 50%, and cutting average food bills by £350 annually.

Visit Sainsburys Sustainability

National Energy Action

Following our successful Fuel Poverty projects in Rutland, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire, we also teamed up with National Energy Action to offer programmes that enabled councils to bring in short-term support allowing fuel poverty action of the ground.

Visit National Energy Action

National Lottery & Sustainable Futures

Lottery funding enabled us to deliver our Sustainable Futures workshop programme to hundreds of young people from all backgrounds throughout 2021, supporting them to understand much more about sustainability, developing skills for the future and building the confidence and resilience to begin their working lives as agents of really positive change.