The Coddenham Centre has secured its latest Award, this time for its Environmental Accreditation.  .

It has been awarded the Gold Carbon Charter Award by Suffolk County Council’s Environment Strategy Team  and the Suffolk Climate Change Partnership for the Centre’s work since 2020 and a whopping 91% reduction in its carbon footprint, alongside a range of initiatives internally and working with the community.

All credit to everyone who has contributed over the years and our thanks to all our supporters including local Councillors Dave Penny & John Whitehead who helped underwrite with Locality Funds.

Well done Coddenham!

A summary of the progress outlined in the citation is as follows;

In assessing your journey towards achieving the Carbon Charter Gold Award, we identified several strengths and achievements:

• You achieved an absolute emissions reduction of 82.5%, and when using your KPI of turnover it is a 91.3% reduction.
• You no longer use heating oil.
• You have installed 80 solar PV panels and two batteries in April 2023, avoiding 4.3tCO2e in 2023.
• You have a 100% renewable grid electricity tariff, saving 4.0tCO2e per year.
• You replaced all internal lighting with LEDs and proximity switches.
• You provide a huge range of sustainability and community initiatives.
• You have a ’25 x 25’ target, and a Net Zero by 2030 target.

More details can be found in the latest Suffolk Climate Change Partnership’s Carbon Charter Newsletter 

Dowload the PRESS RELEASE Here (docx) 

Details are here of the next REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE EVENT along with another great BRUNCH. Everyone welcome.

Would you like to join an award winning organisation?

We welcome enquiries from potential voluntary Trustees. Please email the chair andrew.macpherson@thecoddenhamcentre.co.uk for an informal discussion.