Environmental Sustainability
At Soundabout we are committed to reducing the environmental impact of our work and to promote sustainable practice.
We know that supporting our environment requires sustained action and that no organisation is to small to make a difference.
We also acknowledge that large scale changes in our economies and societies are urgently needed and that everyone should be considered in these changes.
Green Group
Soundabout has a group of staff members who meet regularly to push our Environmental Sustainability work forward.
Ellen
Natalie
Rebecca
Holly
Environmental Action Plan
We already:
Have an Environmental Sustainability Policy and an Environmental Action Plan, covering all aspects of the organisation from travel and suppliers, to our digital carbon footprint.
Bring nature into our sessions. During her work experience, Graduate Emerging Leader Eva wrote the song ‘Nature Is Home’. The song was then shared with all of our choirs. Resulting in the music video below.
Take our sessions out into nature. Our Sounds Wild sessions promote ways for Learning Disabled people to access green spaces and connect with their environment, building on the sensory experience that nature provides.
Discuss environmental matters and actions at our staff team meetings.
Buy sound equipment to last and share it across our sessions and pracitioners.
Work from home and rent venue space by the hour. We must consider venue accessibility and disability provision first. There are few venues across the country that meet the needs of our community. We then evaluate environmental and travel criteria.
Conduct the majority of our Office Team meetings online. For our quartery in-person meetings, we look to travel by train and share lifts first, and chose locations that mean the least amount of collective travel.
Recruit practitioner and volutneers to run sessions local to them.
We plan to:
Update our Environmental Policy and report on the progress against our action plan.
Talk more about how the Climate Crisis will have a disporoportionate impact on the people we work with and how their voice is not heard in climate planning and decisions.
Expand our Green Group to include members beyond our Office Team.
Get a better understanding of our cabon footprint, especially our digital footprint, and take action to reduce it.