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Carbon Literacy for Community Leaders: Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland

June 17, 2025

Carbon Literacy is a day’s worth of accredited learning (delivered over three evenings) about climate change – it’s causes, impacts and solutions.

This course has been created specifically for community leaders in the following sectors:

  • Voluntary
  • Community
  • Social enterprise

It is suitable for anyone involved in an organisation in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland.

It will empower you to set and achieve sustainability goals and to drive effective, tangible and positive changes within your community.

You will leave with a personalised plan of action to implement, both by yourself and through collaborative efforts in your community.

Sessions will take place at the following times:

  1. Tuesday 17th June, 6:30pm-8:30pm
  2. Tuesday 24th June, 6:30pm-8:30pm
  3. Tuesday 1st July, 6:30pm-8:30pm

You will need to attend all three sessions to complete the course and gain accreditation. 

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To secure your place on this course, register today via our Eventbrite page.

June 17, 2025

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Topics covered include:

  • How climate change is impacting on communities and what you can do about it in your role as a community leader
  • The science of climate change
  • Climate justice and climate impacts
  • Carbon footprints and how your church can cut theirs
  • The co-benefits of tackling climate change
  • What do we do with climate anxiety and grief?
  • How we can best communicate about climate change with others, especially in our communities

This course will run on Zoom. For an in person version of the course see more at the Voluntary Action Leicester web page

To receive accreditation you will be invited to write two pledges for action at the end of the course. The course leader will submit these to the Carbon Literacy Project to assess for accreditation.

This course is funded by the Universities Partnership and De Montfort University, hosted by Voluntary Action Leicester and delivered by Caroline Harmon