Give a gift to local schools with Rethink Waste

Since the Surrey Environment Partnership’s Rethink Waste scheme launched, it has awarded £18,500 to 22 Surrey primary schools as chosen by Surrey residents who have signed up to the scheme. And now, with a further £3,000 on offer you too can give a gift to local children by signing up and taking part.

How the scheme works:
You sign up to Rethink Waste and complete fun, easy online activities that help you reduce waste, for which you win points. You select one of four participating schools in Elmbridge and donate your points to them. At the end of each month between January and March 2025, the two schools with the most points will take home a share of £1,000 that they will use to fund an environmental project.

So far, nearly 11,000 households in Surrey have signed up to take part in Rethink Waste. They have completed over 165,000 activities and are well on their way to reducing the amount of waste produced in Surrey. 

And Surrey residents have chosen some great projects to get behind too. Money from Rethink Waste has funded projects ranging from creating brand new outdoor classrooms to buying litter picking sets, building new guinea pig homes and building raised beds. 

The schools in Elmbridge taking part and the projects they will fund should they win are:

• Ashley CofE Primary School, Walton-on-Thames – buy a new polytunnel.
• Cleves School, Weybridge – build green canopy roofs and benches.
• St Alban's Catholic Primary School, Molesey – buy signs for a recycling station, develop food recycling and set up a school farm shop.
• St James CofE Primary School, Weybridge – develop green spaces and an allotment.

Why don’t you give them your support by signing up to Rethink Waste now