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Schools

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Eco Schools – Eco Schools is a great way to make sustainable development a part of the life and ethos of your school.  Designed to fit into the curriculum, it's an award scheme that gets everyone in the school community involved in making the school environment better.

Hill End is a residential and field study centre on a 65-acre site near Oxford. It is managed for wildlife, with a wide diversity of habitats including chalk grassland, ponds and streams, marshland and developing woodland. The upper grassland slopes are part of the Wytham Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest.  It can provide all of the natural resources for field studies and environmental education. In 2004 the site achieved its Eco Centre status.

Northmoor Trust – The Northmoor Trust is based in South Oxfordshire and manages an estate of 300 hectares, including Little Wittenham Nature Reserve, a conservation farm and a new woodland dedicated to forestry research.

The Trust promotes conservation through exemplary land management, education and land science. It has a Board of six Trustees with 33 staff working in ecology, estate management, education and forest research.  Important Northmoor Trust activities are:-

Timescape Project is a new education facility which will represent the culmination of all our research. The centre will tell the story of the development of the Wittenham landscape, so that people understand its evolution, its human origins, and its ever changing nature.

Wild Waste Show – comes into town to help drive your rubbish down. The Wild Waste Show provides imaginative workshops that can make a difference to:

  • our environment

  • our future resources

  • our throw away society and our attitudes to waste

Outreach work with primary and secondary schools.

RISC – RISC is our local Development Education Centre, based in Reading. It works with school and community groups to raise awareness of global issues and encourage people to take action for change. Established in 1981, RISC has one of the country's largest selections of development education resources for sale in the World Shop, an amazing Loans Service with over 1,000 artefacts for schools to borrow, and an edible roof garden. RISC’s Education team provide training and support for teachers throughout Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre – near Didcot is an award-winning Eco-Centre making use of environmentally sustainable products from top to bottom. The surrounding nature reserve includes a pond, meadows, hedgerows and woodland.    

Oxfordshire County Council The County Council’s sustainability officer is part of our Schools Group

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