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WWF-UK is the UK arm of the WWF Network, the world’s leading environmental organisation founded in 1961 and now active in over 100 countries. Using our unique combination of practical experience, knowledge and credibility, our 300-strong staff work with governments, businesses and communities both here in the UK and around the world so that people and nature thrive within their fair share of the planet’s natural resources. In 2007/8 we spent £42m on our work; most of our income comes from our dedicated members and supporters.
One Planet Schools
Imagine a school where everyone cares – about themselves, each other, and about the planet; now and in the future. Now imagine a school where this caring touches everything it does – what and how pupils learn; how the school manages its physical environment and resources; how staff and pupils relate to each other; how they work with their local community – and how they reach out to the wider world.
What you are imagining is a ‘ One Planet School’: a place committed to reducing its impact on the planet here and now; a place which prepares young people to act as drivers for sustainability in the future; a place with a vision of how people and nature can live in harmony, on a thriving, green planet.
This is the vision behind WWF’s One Planet Schools® programme – a programme which strives to reach out towards the 10.3 million highly influential young people who enter our schools five days a week, 40 weeks of the year.
One Planet Schools® builds on the government’s Sustainable Schools agenda. The One Planet Schools programme will grow and evolve over the next few years, but here’s a taster of what we have to offer currently.
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