Halton Housing has been awarded Silver Status by Carbon Literacy Project, four months after achieving Bronze Status.

The Silver accreditation means 15% of the workforce including colleagues from all tiers of the organisation, and board members, are now certified as carbon literate.  This is a huge step forward in our drive towards sustainability.

Using a toolkit designed for the social housing sector, the Carbon Literacy Project training course involves learning about greenhouse gases and their impact, how the climate is changing and what that means for individuals, society and Halton Housing as a social landlord.  It then challenges participants about their everyday lives and how different choices could reduce the greenhouse gases produced.

At the end of the course, each participant commits to at least two impactful actions – one to reduce their personal carbon footprint and the other to reduce their organisation’s carbon footprint.

We have an ambition that over the next 12 months all colleagues will receive the carbon literacy training and we will aim towards our next target of achieving Gold status.

In June, our Decarbonisation Strategic Lead, Georgina Patel recently joined the Carbon Literacy Project to talk about the success of the carbon literacy training at Halton Housing during the National Housing Federation Housing Governance Conference 2022, and last month she also attended the Carbon Literacy Organisation awards (pictured below with colleague Gav Roberts) in Manchester to receive Halton Housing’s certificate and award for reaching Bronze carbon literacy status.

Halton Housing joins almost 100 other leading companies that have been accredited by The Carbon Literacy Project as having a substantial commitment to Carbon Literacy. Accreditation supports the development, recruitment and retention of a Carbon Literate workforce and requires an organisation to engage positively with its audience or community in developing and delivering low carbon behaviour.

For more information about Halton Housing’s commitment towards sustainability visit www.haltonhousing.co.uk/sustainability.