The 'Stepping Up Sustainability in Dorset' project delivered activities relating to sustainable development throughout the sub region of Dorset through the recruitment, training and development of a group of community sustainability champions who would work collaboratively with the Service to research interest, plan, develop and deliver activities and open events for the public. As well as capacity building, the project focused on family learning, improving learning delivery and enhancing access to learning. Four case studies were produced through the project.

The aims of this sustainable development project were: to improve the management of food waste at one of our main centres by using wormeries and composting; to create an organic vegetable, fruit and herb garden on an overspill car park area at the centre and use it as a hands-on teaching resource; to develop and deliver a new range of mainstream, community and family learning courses, both practical and theoretical, around the concepts of growing, sourcing and preparing food for domestic consumption in a sustainable manner that also provides economic benefits to the participants; to embed w

The aim of the project was to raise awareness of sustainable development to learners attending construction and motor vehicle courses and for employees of small businesses and to raise awareness of the local employment opportunities available in the new emerging Low Carbon Goods and Services sector. The College wanted to develop courses and programmes in the area of sustainability and this project presented them with the catalyst to begin to pilot a number of different qualifications, which would be delivered as part of main learning courses for particular groups of learners.

This sustainable development project aimed to reduce carbon emissions in apprenticeship provision with the use of free and inexpensive technology: This was a research project - in partnership with Vocational Innovation and the ALP Hampshire and Isle of Wight Network - to assess the impact of the use of freely available software solutions and inexpensive hardware, to deliver remote support, learning and assessment to apprentices in the work place, on an organisation's carbon emissions. Search 'Cut the Carbon' to find similar projects.