Planet Earth Games - Colleges
Planet Earth Games - Colleges is a competition for colleges to set up climate action challenges and compete against other colleges to ensure the most student and staff engagement throughout the challenge period.
The competition is unique in its gamification of environmental sustainability challenges for colleges utilising Planet Earth Games new online platform to set up and record the colleges challenges.
The Planet Earth Games - Colleges window runs from January 1st 2025 - April 22nd 2025 (Earth day)
To sign up to Planet Earth Games create your profile and set up teams in "Further Education" for your colleges here: https://planetearthgames.org/createteam
Organising committee
Planet Earth Games is seeking to create an organising committee to develop, plan and help deliver the programme to the AoC member network for the 2024/25 academic year.
Planet Earth Games is seeking staff and students to join a group of sustainability professionals to oversee:
- Marketing and sales
- Rules and adjudication
- Competition administration
- Event co-ordination
- Volunteer co-ordination
The commitment will be approximately one hour online meeting per month and ad-hoc tasks.
If you are interested, please express your interest here.
50% Discount on Planet Earth Games entries
We are offering a 50% discount, for colleges that have signed the Sustainability Pledge and the Student Leadership Programme and are looking to recruit Green Ambassadors.
Commit to this year's event f by creating a further education team here. To claim 50% back, please contact Sam Strickson and Chris Broadbent.
Environmental Sustainability Roadmap 2025 - 2030
AoC Sport’s environmental sustainability roadmap is a guide to support our goal to be environmentally sustainable. We will be following AoC’s Sustainability Policy , BASIS’s 12 principles and Sport England’s Every Move Strategy to help provide guidance in ways of working that can impact our overall priorities.
In our strategic framework we identify that environmental sustainability will be achieved by following the five guiding principles of the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework in everything that we do:
- Undertake systemic efforts to promote greater environmental responsibility.
- Reduce overall climate impact
- Educate for climate action
- Promote sustainable and responsible consumption
- Advocate for Climate action through communication
Our goal is to create an offer that aligns with the needs of our staff, members, and their students, whilst minimising our impact on the environment. Recognising the challenges of achieving, net zero or carbon neutral status, we acknowledge that not all our objectives can be accomplished simultaneously. Therefore, we are committed to a phased implementation of our solutions over the next five years, with the aim of being carbon neutral by 2030.
Greener Sports Fixtures
At AoC Sport we wanted to link National Colleges’ Green Week and the idea of a Green Sports Fixture for the games that will be taking place during that week, and beyond. We have created thoughts and suggestions for colleges that were interested in running a ‘Green Fixture’