Environmental strategy for Active Northumberland
Active Northumberland has appointed environmental champions at each of its centres as it works to reduce its carbon footprint by 10% in 2023.
One member of staff from each sports centre has been appointed as an environmental champion to keep an eye on all things environmental and help customers and staff to understand the role they can play in helping Active Northumberland reduce its impact on the environment.
The environmental champions attended a training workshop where they explored what additional measures or behaviours could be adopted to improve the organisation’s environmental impact.
Active Northumberland has also developed an environmental strategy to ensure the most efficient use of energy, water and material resources and to minimise the production of waste.
Other environmental measures that are being looked at include fitting new pool covers at some sites to reduce heat loss and increasing the number of recycling stations across the centres.
Solar panels have also been fitted to sport centres and simple measures such as switching off equipment and air conditioning during quiet times, shutting doors, switching off lights and ensuring taps or showers are not running unnecessarily are also being adopted by staff and customers.
