Green Champion Activities
Staff & Student Green Champions are university-wide networks, who recognise and embrace that sustainability is at the heart of their future whatever career path they choose to take as it is becoming more and more important to every aspect of our lives. Green Champions have the opportunity to raise awareness on energy and water consumption, advocate for sustainable travel options, engage with plastic-free initiatives, promote sustainability in creative and engaging ways to the wider community, and many more, while earning skill points towards their Warwick Award.
We are offering a wide range of opportunities students can engage with. We also encourage students to come up with initiatives they are passionate about and email us sustainability@warwick.ac.uk with any ideas.
How to get involved?
- Send an email to sustainability@warwick.ac.uk with the list of activities you’d be happy to take on.
- Register to the Warwick Award.
- Record your participation in your chosen activities and let us know how many hours you’ve worked, so we can verify your contributions.
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Title |
When |
Role |
Activities |
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Choose Your Way Warwick Ambassador
|
Continuous |
Share your experiences of travel modes on campus and influence others |
Capture fun footage of your journeys in and around campus Promote footage to others |
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Cut the Flow Ambassador
|
During term times |
Support the Cut the Flow Assistants with walkabouts of accommodation |
Raise awareness of what people can do to reduce resource consumption |
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Green Week Volunteer
|
Term 2 |
Promote sustainability at events |
Organise, promote, and help running events for your department or society |
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Sustainability stand helper |
During term times |
Help run information stands |
Raise awareness of what the University is doing and how people can make a difference and get involved. Develop interactive activities to engage with people. |
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Departmental/Society events |
During term times |
Promote sustainability to your society or department |
Organise events for your department or society |
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Hedgehog Friendly Campus |
March – September |
Support the HFC initiative |
Undertake hedgehog surveys Create habitats for wildlife at workshops e.g. bug hotels or tree planting Raise awareness to others Organise events/fundraising |
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Sustainability blog posts |
Continuous |
Promote sustainability through blog post writing |
Write sustainability blog post(s) e.g. about what you to make a difference or how your society is involved. Interview staff and students. |
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Social media take-overs (inc. TikTok) |
Continuous |
Promote sustainability through social media |
Work with your society to ‘Take-over’ @WarwickUniSust for a day |
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Create videos |
Continuous |
Promote sustainability through videos |
Create videos for use on social media, big screen, and elsewhere on campus |
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Litter picks |
Monthly |
Reduce litter on campus |
Attend litter picks across campus |
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Bin audits |
Term 2 |
Identify where bins are located on campus |
Undertake walkabouts to record internal waste bins and signage |
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Plastic Free Communities |
Continuous |
Identify single use plastics on campus |
Work with departments to remove/ reduce single use plastics |
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Green Action Team volunteer |
Continuous |
Support Green Action teams to embed sustainability within their departments |
Help staff with activities in their departments |
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Biodiversity walks |
Monthly |
Record species on campus |
Attend biodiversity walks and use the iNaturalist App to record and monitor the fauna and flora on campus |
