Sustainability

We are pleased to be able to report on our carbon use annually - please click on the links below for our latest report. We calculate our staff and Board business travel, workstation energy use, home energy use and travel energy use. We also report on other carbon use but this is based on assumptions.

► Click here to view our Sustainability Policy

Key Facts

We have 2 offices, our headquarters at University of Gloucestershire and our Scotland office at Queen Margaret University. As both of our offices are within an institution we share many services such as postal, telephone and cleaning services as well as utilities
Due to our shared offices some of our services are controlled by our host institutions such as lighting and water and we are unable to measure these separately.
Staff commuting is not included in the figures
Our recycling and landfill waste are collected centrally by our host institutions therefore we have an annual waste audit and base an assumption on this for the year
We include the travel incurred by our Trustees#
We highlight our sustainability ethos throughout each of our strategic aims and we report to our Board of Trustees

#based on reimbursements so any travel not reimbursed is not included

For relative carbon baselining, we represent our carbon using the recommended reporting method by HEFCE as commissioned in the SQW report. We identify total Full Time Equivalent (FTE) of staff, and the total income as reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPI). It is also considered appropriate to report against the changes in size of the physical assets and include gross internal area (GIA).

Reporting scope	Office Area (m2)	Electricity	Gas and water	Travel	Waste	Procurement
HQ, Cheltenham	45.12*	Tenant within office space with little or no control of Electricity (lights) or means to measure consumption. Desk usage is monitored via socket meters	Tenant within office space with little or no control of Gas/water or means to measure consumption	All travel is based on estimates of mileage and using Defra conversions Tenant within office space with no means to measure consumption.	Waste audit undertaken and assumptions are based on this for the year	Accurate data for procurement areas is not available at this time but adheres to our purchasing policies
Scotland Office	11.94**

* Office area is calculated using sole purpose office space and shared office space such as toilet and kitchen area
** Our Scotland office is part of an open plan office so this figure is calculated based on average FTE space in our Headquarters