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
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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
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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.
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Staff commuting is not included in the figures
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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
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We include the travel incurred by our Trustees#
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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 |
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HQ, Cheltenham |
45.12* |
Tenant within |
Tenant |
All travel is |
Waste audit |
Accurate data |
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