ASBP member RAFT (Retrofit Action for Tomorrow) is one of five organisations across the UK that will receive £100,000 to boost green measures and reduce carbon emissions in schools.
RAFT will use the £100,000 grant over the coming year to roll out the Zero Carbon Action Builder – an accessible, easy-to-use and scalable platform to help UK schools to act now towards efficient, zero carbon buildings.
Harry Paticas, Managing Director of RAFT: “We are absolutely delighted to have been selected by Ashden LetsGoZero, as one of the vital projects they feel will most make a difference in helping schools in their ambitious and challenging decarbonisation journeys.”
“Our new platform will integrate our deep retrofit experience within an accessible, easy-to-use and scalable tool empowering schools and school-estates to move ahead with relevant, practical and outcome-led action. Schools will be encouraged throughout to tell their stories and share knowledge to inspire wider change.”
RAFT has been selected alongside four other high-impact winners: Eco-Schools: Count Your Carbon Playground; Shropshire Good Food Partnership: School Food Web Climate Action; Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK): Fund The Future, Teach The Future; and Brighton & Hove City Council: Our Schools Our World.
The announcement by Let’s Go Zero – the campaign uniting schools across the UK to be zero carbon by 2030 – comes as schools are being given a higher focus by policymakers for being ‘the change we want to see’ in communities finding ways to be more energy efficient, nature-friendly and on the road to zero carbon.
Further Information
In 2021 Retrofit Action for Tomorrow was the Judges’ choice in the Initiatives category of the ASBP Awards. You can find out more about RAFT in their ASBP Awards video entry, and visiting RAFT’s website.