Organisation |
Aims |
Website |
| Generous | Encourages individual action : every action unknown to everyone else - from unplugging appliances to dumping bottled water, from sharing your car journey to buying Fair Trade -incrementally shifts history in favour of the planet and its people | Visit |
| Breathing Earth | Map of the world showing carbon emissions by country | Visit |
| Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE) | Focusses on educational issues relating to the environment and sustainability | Visit |
| Council for Environmental Education | No longer active but still has some useful information | Visit |
| Eco Schools | Help schools become sustainable by issuing awards. A large and active organisation | Visit |
| Education 4 Conservation | Environmental education by helping young people love nature and hence want to porotect it | Visit |
| English Nature : Nature for Schools | Maps of UK showing information about specific terrestrial, coastal or marine Natural Areas | Visit |
| Environmental Agency |
Public body whose aims are to protect and improve the environment and to promote sustainable development |
Visit |
| Field Studies Council | Environmental education charity helping people understand nature by field studies | Visit |
| Friends of the Earth | Information for educators and young people | Visit |
| Global Footprints | Publicly funded project, aiming for global citizenship education to be central to the curriculum and ethos of the school | Visit |
| Insect Lore | Educational insect items for parents and teachers of children 8 and under | Visit |
| Learning Through Landscapes | Helps children to connect with nature, become more active, learn outdoors, develop social skills and have fun. | Visit |
| Low Carbon Buildings Programme (pase 2) | Grants for renewables for schools | Visit |
| Wildlife Trust | Make your own compost bin | Visit |
| Nature Grid | National Grid has a many environmental education centres on land they own next to electricity substations | Visit |
| World Wildlife Fund | An international, reknowned body believing that young people will shape the future of our world and have a huge influence, here and now. They work with teachers and youth leaders on their One Planet Schools ® programme | Visit |
| Richmond Borough in Bloom | To enhance the natural beauty of the Borough of Richmond through floral display. Hold an annual competition with a schools category for environmental/wildlife areas | Visit |
| School Food Matters |
School food and food education. Get children cooking and growing and out onto a farm. |
Visit |
| Health and Safety Executive | Advice on school trips | Visit |
| School Wildlife Gardening | Guide for teachers keen to develop a wildlife/conservation area in a school, developed by the Ecology Section of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea | Visit |
| Sus School | Helping schools become more sustainable | Visit |
| Thames Water | Interactive website promoting the wise use of water in primary and secondary schools | Visit |
| Twickenham & Thames Valley Bee Keepers | Take up bee-keeping. Includes a teaching group | Visit |
| Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Barnes | More than 40 hectares of created wetlands in the heart of a capital city. Free visits available for state funded schools. | Visit |
| We are What we Do | Inspires people to use their everyday actions to change the world | Visit |
| Wildlife Gardening with Jenny Steel | Jenny is a naturalist and plant ecologist | Visit |
| Wildlife Gardening | Green gardening guide, has forums | Visit |
| Young People's Trust for the Environment | Encourages young people's understanding of the environment and sustainability | Visit |
| Woodland Trust | Free trees for schools | Visit |
| Carbon Trust | UK schools could save around £70 million per year by reducing their energy costs with many cheap and simple measures. | |
| Fairtrade | How to become a Fairtrade school | Visit |
South West London Environment Network
3 Phoenix Wharf,
Eel Pie Island,
Twickenham
TW1 3DY
directions to our office
Email us (quickest way to contact us)
020 8892 0590
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SWLEN is a company limited by guarentee (England & Wales) no 07469024 and a registered charity no. 1140872
