Carbon Emissions Action Ideas Checklist
This Carbon Emissions Action Ideas Checklist is a useful tool to help you assess and improve your organisation’s progress in reducing carbon emissions. The Checklist will help you to progress through the stages of the Sport England Maturity Matrix. Every organisation is unique so there is no one-size-fits-all therefore not all actions will be relevant […]
Circular Economy Guide
Sport relies on equipment, kit, catering, signage, fit-out, facilities, maintenance, packaging and constant purchasing. Often, those things follow a linear pattern: buy, use, throw away, replace. That creates unnecessary waste, drives up costs, increases dependence on virgin materials and leaves organisations exposed to supply chain disruption. A circular economy offers a better model. The Ellen […]
Sustainable Procurement Toolkit
This Sustainable Procurement Toolkit provides practical guidance, tools, and resources to help organisations integrate sustainability into purchasing decisions. In this toolkit: Getting started – A Guide to Embedding Sustainable Procurement An Introduction to Sustainable Procurement Questionnaire Scorecard Sustainability Procurement Policy Template Sustainable Procurement Questionnaire for Suppliers The Sustainable Procurement Playbook – Category Guidance for UK […]
Benches Biodiversity Assessment Tool for Sport
“The BENCHES biodiversity assessment tool for sport helps sports organisations and event organisers identify, measure, and mitigate their biodiversity impacts across the entire value chain and different ecosystems. It is designed for easy use by practitioners without specialist knowledge and is structured around four independent axes that can be used separately or together for flexible […]
Alltrax Cycling Club | Case Study: Reuse
Alltrax Cycling Club have replaced their single-use course marking tape with a durable, reusable barrier tape wound onto reels. After each event, the tape is collected and stored properly for the next race. The use of reels has improved the speed and efficiency of their event setup and takedown, while also extending the life of […]
PDQ Cycle Coaching | Case Study: Reuse
PDQ Cycle coaching used their Accelerate grant to purchase Tyvek plastic reusable numbers to reduce their use of single-use paper numbers. The grant was also used to ensure electronic provision of results and race programmes could be given reducing further single-use paper. We would like to continue using reusable numbers. We would like to encourage […]
Leeds Kit Foundation & Impact Measurement Document
Read about Active Leeds’ circular economy plan including kit donation, events, and their impact so far. Via the button at the bottom of the page you can also access the Together for Sport – Impact Measurement document to measure your potential textile waste savings.
Building a Credible Sustainability Action Plan
A Step-by-step Guide for Sports Organisations. By March 2027, Sport England System Partners are expected to have: A clear sustainability action plan Engaged with Sport England and BASIS support and resources An understanding of how sustainability supports and is embedded in every day delivery activity This guide will support you in moving forward with the […]
Example Sustainability Strategies & Action Plans
This folder contains actions plans by; Active Lincolnshire, Association of Colleges, British Shooting, British Triathlon, England Golf, Lawn Tennis Association, Royal Yachting Association, Sported and The British Mountaineering Council. These Sustainability Strategies & Action Plans have been shared by Sport England to provide inspiration and guidance for partners creating or updating their own documents. The […]
Sustainability Action Plan Template
This practical template can help you structure, track and implement your day-to-day actions. The template can be used as a shared document to enable members of the team who are assigned responsibilities to be able to update the document. This is a downloadable excel spreadsheet.