Introduction to Permaculture

This is training in facilitation and engagement skills and how to plan a community engagement pathway for local community climate action and resilience initiatives. The training strengthens skills for building local collaboration to deliver community-led design and implementation of local community climate action and resilience initiatives and plans.

This Designing Sustainable Schools course supports climate action in schools, by helping teachers develop comprehensive Climate Action Plans (CAP), aligned with the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy (England). This course has been created to help you navigate a way through; to find a sensible starting point; or to build on your work to date. Our goal is yours: to create positive and sustainable changes across your whole school to support a greener future. You can follow this course in whichever order supports you best in your role as a Sustainability Lead.

The Growing Food In Small Spaces online course supports learners to grow healthy organic food.  Key aspects of permaculture gardening are covered, focusing on connection to nature, to place and wider society in terms of their food choices. You will cover where to get organic community grown food and the resources required for growing food at home. We’ll support you with making ethical resource choices in your food production. By the end of the course you’ll know how to design optimal food growing spaces, including how your design impacts the environment, and how the environment interacts with your space.