Trinity Retains Beyond Gold in Sustainability Awards

For the second year in a row 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 2024 programme, the College was recognised for its work promoting sustainable practices and achieving its strategic environmental goals– one of five 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: ‘We’re delighted to retain the “Beyond Gold” award again this year and it certainly feels that we have made significant progress since we set up our first sustainability committee in 2019.  The Green Impact scheme is an extremely helpful tool, not only in identifying priorities and measuring success, but also in successfully providing a framework to bring together sections of the college community (including staff and students) on a number of projects and initiatives.

'This year we completed the ground source and air source heat pump projects along with insulation projects across a number of college properties. We’ve also focused on gathering baseline data, with the completion of our scope 3 audit of particular value as we plan our priorities for the year ahead.’