Elmbridge schools need you!

Four primary schools in Elmbridge need your support to win a share of £3,000. The prize is on offer as part of the Rethink Waste scheme, and it’s easy for you to do your bit. Here’s how:

• Sign up to Rethink Waste. It’s free, quick and easy. Anyone can do it!
• Once signed up, you’ll have access to lots of great online activities such as quizzes, pledges and videos. 
• Watch a video, make a pledge or complete a quiz to earn points.
• Donate your points to an Elmbridge school (details below).
• By 17 November, the schools with the most points win a share of £3,000.

Each school has said what they are going to do with the money, should they win. And as you can see below there are some great projects planned that will improve the environment:

• St James C of E Primary School, Weybridge – improve the school’s green spaces, allotment area, build raised beds and buy bins and litter pickers.
• Cleves School, Weybridge – build green roofs and an area to have outdoor quiet time and lessons.
• Ashley C of E Primary School, Walton-on-Thames – build a polytunnel to extend the school’s growing season and allow outdoor lessons in bad weather.
• Esher Church School – buy sustainable bins to encourage as much recycling as possible within the school.

Rethink Waste has already awarded £17,000 to Surrey primary schools with residents donating points to school almost 10,000 times since the scheme launched. The most recent phase of schools donations saw two schools in Guildford and one each in Merstham, Bagshot and Tadworth awarded funds to, among other projects, build a new home for school guinea pigs, install a green roof and build a bug hotel.

Rethink Waste is Surrey’s movement to reduce what we waste that is being delivered by the Surrey Environment Partnership, of which Elmbridge Borough Council is a member. Nearly 10,000 households across the county have signed up so far, completing nearly 120,000 activities. As well as donating to schools, members have been using their points to enter prize draws and give to charities.

Join the movement and sign up now.