Education Group

Eastbourne

HOW WE WORK

We are connected via WhatsApp group chat where you can always ask a question or request support
Core group meet once a month. The wider EEEN with all education institution members, parents and students meet every term
We offer free events for schools, colleges and educators

The Education Group works with Eastbourne schools, colleges and nurseries to reduce their institutional carbon footprint and to facilitate climate and environmental education in the younger generation and the wider community.

We have created the Eastbourne ECO Education Network bringing together teachers, students, parents, activists, service providers and other ECO Action Network members. We provide support, information and resources through targeted campaign packages we put together, such as on energy (solar panels, insulation, water use), transport (reducing car journeys during school drop-off), and biodiversity and carbon capture (tree planting, rewilding).

Currently on hold due to lockdown, we hope to resume and launch our campaigns (one a term) from September 2020 onwards.

Taskforce Teams

We are currently putting together different taskforce teams for each of the campaign we are launching from September, which include our education group members as well as relevant members from other working groups and practitioners and providers (eg Ovesco are part of solar panel team; Living Streets and SusTrans reps in Transport group). Each team will work together to create a package that will make it easy and attractive for education institutions to make eco-changes. In all this we cooperate with the Eco Schools Programme, which we encourage all EEEN members to join, helping Eastbourne institutions to gain Green Flags.
Rapid Transition Alliance

During lockdown, we are providing schools with information about a series of eco Webinars for school children run by ECO Action Families.

Cleaning Eastbourne Beach – all 93, actually

July 23, 2020

Well, who would have expected so many people turning out for this event during a seriously concerning period! Not only did people come out in force to clean every single one of the 93 beaches alongside our seafront – volunteers also chose to clean our promenade, the coastline beyond our main beach eastwards beyond the Marina and westward towards Beachy Head. Others went into our parks and carried out park cleans.