Carbon literacy training and support to develop your environmental sustainability pledge
Thu 12 Sep 2024 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM BST
Online, Zoom
Description
Are you a freelancer or small-scale creative organisation in Medway or Kent? Do you or your organisation want to get to grips with carbon literacy and work out what difference you and your organisation can make?
Creative Medway and Creative Kent are working with Sail to offer creative-sector specific training for self-employed practitioners and small-scale organisations (with up to ten staff) in Medway and Kent.
This training is offered to support freelancers and small-scale organisations take part in the Kent and Medway Environmental Sustainability Pledge. It will give you carbon literacy certification and support you to develop individual or organisational climate action commitments as part of the Kent and Medway Environmental Sustainability Pledge.
The training is 7.5hrs in total spread across:
1. 2-3 hours online pre-learning module
2. 3.5 hours online group training session with an expert facilitator focussed on tangible, practical solutions
3. 1 hour self-guided process developing your individual or organisational climate action pledge(s).
Upon completion, the Carbon Literacy Project independently verifies your pledges in order to certify you as Carbon Literate.
The training costs £53 per person. Creative Medway are subsidising three places for low or unwaged members of Medway’s creative community who would not otherwise be able to take part. Contact us to claim a subsidised place.
About Sail
Find out more about Sail and the training they provide across the creative and cultural sector here.
About the Kent and Medway Environmental Sustainability Pledge
The pledge has been developed by the creative sector in Medway and Kent to demonstrate the collective impact of our work around sustainability and to offer support and accountability to practitioners and organisations looking to reduce the environmental impact of their work.
Find out more and sign up to the pledge here.
Access
If you require BSL interpretation or any other access provision, please contact us here.
I am interested but my organisation is too large!
This initial training is intended to support freelancers and small-scale organisations to access cost effective training which is normally only accessible to larger organisations.
If we have spare places, we will open these out to larger organisations. Please get in touch here to register your interest and we will be in touch if we can offer you a place.
I want to come but there are no places left!
Join the waiting list and we will let you know when we are next running this course.
Questions?
If you have any questions, do get in touch!