About
The Eco Centre was formed when a group of like-minded people, concerned about climate change and environmental degradation, came together and asked a simple question: What can we do?
Our Initial Mission — Planet
Our original mission was to help people take practical action on climate change and protect the natural environment by making sustainable living easier and more accessible. As our work developed, we recognised that sustainability cannot be separated from the pressures people face in everyday life. During the cost-of-living crisis, many households have been struggling with energy, food and other essential costs, and simply asking people to change their habits isn’t realistic or fair.
Today's Mission — People & Planet
Since then, our work has evolved to focus on practical actions that benefit both people and the planet. We support individuals and communities to reduce energy use, cut household costs, waste less, repair and reuse more, and make sustainable choices that are affordable and achievable.
Supporting Disadvantaged Communities Across
Our outreach, workshops, resources and partnerships prioritise the needs of people and communities facing social and economic disadvantage. We've seen first-hand that supporting these groups to reduce costs can also help build confidence, improve living conditions and increase engagement with sustainability.
How we achieve this:
Community Climate Action
The Eco Centre takes its work into community settings - to where people live, learn and work - to help people reduce their carbon footprint, live more sustainably, but also save money at the same time. We want to bring about a real impact on climate change and environmental action - at the individual and community level.
Our current programme work focuses on two key elements:
Our current programme work focuses on two key elements:
1. Delivering practical workshops, events and outreach activities to help people live more sustainably.
2. Building community sustainability infrastructure to support local groups and projects.
Looking ahead our plans include:
Eco-Save App
Eco-Save is an innovative application that helps people cut household carbon emissions, waste and water usage, and save money. It provides users with tips and ideas to help people live more sustainably and protect the environment. The aim is to be good for the planet and the purse, helping it to appeal to people who are struggling with bills.
Key features and benefits
Key features and benefits
The Eco Centre is crowdsourcing the development of the app. We have now released a prototype that is being field tested, thanks to a great team of volunteers.
Making it happen
The challenge for all of us is addressing climate change, and living and working sustainably. Between us, we have the knowledge and the tools to reduce our impact on the environment. We can a make a difference if we’re prepared to be open to living and working differently.
The success of the Eco Centre, and importantly our aims, will rest of the enthusiasm and engagement of a broad collation of people and organisations from all sectors.
Eco Centre is Charitable Community Benefit Society. As a Charitable CBS we are a non-profit-making membership organisation, with charitable aims, and we are answerable to our members. We choose to be a membership organisation because:
It’s time to work work together and take action: to live and work smarter.