Trinity Goes Beyond Gold in Sustainability Awards

Trinity College has been awarded a Green Impact Beyond Gold award from the University for its efforts to make college a more sustainable place to live and work.

Beyond Gold is the highest level of award in the Green Impact scheme. In this year’s Green Impact 2023 programme, the College was recognised for its work promoting sustainable practices and achieving our strategic environmental goals– one of just two colleges to feature in this year’s list of Beyond Gold award-holders.

The Oxford University Environmental Sustainability team’s Green Impact awards is an environmental engagement scheme in which staff and students come together in teams to make their workplaces more sustainable.

Lynne Adam, Trinity’s Domestic Bursar, says of the award: ‘So many people in our college community feel strongly about the need to have a positive footprint on our environment, and have worked to put our values into practice. The college’s submission to the scheme highlighted the many ways in which sustainability and environmental awareness are being embedded in college life, reflecting the values of students, staff and college leadership. We’re delighted to be planning our first ground source and air source heat pump projects along with insulation measures across a number of College properties. There has also been a focus this year on properly understanding our position through the gathering of accurate data; there is much work to do but we feel well placed to move forward very positively with a revised Sustainability Strategy and a new Sustainability Officer in post.’