Green Gown Awards 2018 - Bath Student Community Partnership - Finalist

Bath is a shared city. With over 30% of the population of Bath comprising of students from two universities, the SCP works with the University of Bath, Bath Spa University and Bath and North East Somerset Council on a variety of sustainability issues, especially during student move-out.

For the third year in a row, we have joined up with the British Heart Foundation and their Pack for Good campaign for any resident of Bath to donate any unwanted items to fund their life-saving research. Both staff and students work diligently to promote the campaign. Last year, Bath raised £156,656 for BHF with over 10,000 bags donated!

We also see a tremendous effort put forth for the entire move-out period with food and crockery donations and encouraging everyone to recycle as much as possible. We aim to achieve even more this year as students prepare to leave Bath for the summer.

Top 3 learnings:

1. A joined-up collaborative approach between local councils and universities takes effort but sometimes is highly effective.
2. A joined-up approach across departments within a complex HE organisation is the best approach.
3. Sometimes the most effective change takes several attempts and an iterative improvement process.

CO2t savings 2017/2018: 887,434kgs (Actual) for 2017 Pack for Good campaign

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