Are you part of a voluntary or community sector organisation or social enterprise in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland, or any other organisation with a focus on meeting the needs of our local community?
 
De Montfort University through the Universities Partnership is offering a free one-day accredited Carbon Literacy Training course for Community Leaders – this means anyone who works regularly with and for the benefit of local community members through a local organisation.
 
In the training you will learn about:
  • The science of what causes climate change and its impacts.
  • Your own carbon footprint and the key issues facing Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and actions being taken
  • What you can do individually collectively to make a real difference, including through your organisation and in partnership locally.
The training is highly interactive and motivating, and helps participants to devise actions that they will take forward into the future. Participation and successful completion of a short accreditation form enables participants to be recognised as ‘Carbon Literate’ by the Carbon Literacy Trust.
 
If a leadership team member from your organisation takes part and is accredited, you can use this training to get organisational carbon literacy accreditation at Bronze level.
 
Through delivering the course, we aim to inspire and link up a cohort of local climate leaders who can then put what they learn to work in their organisations and communities, potentially by going on to deliver the training themselves.
 
The course will be delivered by De Montfort University’s Andrew Reeves, drawing on over two decades of experience of place-based community climate change projects.
 
The training is being made possible through the Leicester Environmental Action and Future (LEAF) project, funded by the Lottery’s Climate Action Fund and the Universities Partnership, which brings together De Montfort, Leicester and Loughborough Universities for the benefit of the local community.
 
When and Where? In-person at De Montfort University, Leicester: Wednesday December 10th 2025, 9.30am to 4.30pm
 

Interested? Sign up by Thurs 4th December by clicking here.

We will send you full details for joining and the pre-session task after your sign-up is confirmed. Please direct any queries or late registration requests to Andrew Reeves on areeves@dmu.ac.uk