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We're campaigning for Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and the Department for Education to implement our 4 specific policy asks:
You can read our full asks for more details. We hope that these asks will achieve our vision of broad climate and environmental education.
Our Climate Education Bill (in England and Wales) is currently making its way through parliament. If passed, it would integrate sustainability throughout the curriculum. For more information on the bill and what it would mean, read our briefing for MPs.
You can get in touch with us at england@teachthefuture.uk.
A briefing for our Climate Education Bill, including what we want to change, the opportunity our Bill presents and what the implentation of the Bill would mean.
Our full asks we want to see from the current UK government. As education in the UK is a devolved matter, these asks apply primarily just to education in England - we have separate policy asks for education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
An outline of the changes our Climate Education Bill would enact regarding education in England and Wales.
The Department for Education released their final version of their Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy in 2022. This is our formal response.
Report on the estimated costs of achieving Net Zero in Primary and Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom. Prepared by Energise (pro-bono) for Teach the Future. September 2023.
Teach the Future responded to a letter recieved from Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, which we found to be out of touch with the reality of the education system.
July 3, 2020
Earlier this week, on Monday 28th June, it has been reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak hasrequested advice from every governmental departmentas to how to best support a "retraining revolution."
June 29, 2020
Today Zamzam Ibrahim, NUS President, and I have written to Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education in response to today's announcement of £1bn school rebuilding and retrofitting investment.
June 29, 2020
Today the government has announced that they plan to invest £1bn into a ten-year school retrofit and rebuilding plan, this comes after Teach the Future has been pushing for a Green Recovery for Education, a similar but significantly more ambitious 10-year retrofit plan.
June 29, 2020
53 leading environment and education organisations have today written to the Chancellor calling for a Green Recovery for Education.
June 17, 2020
Over 1,000 students have signed a letter delivered today to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, stating the case to retrofit the education estate to net-zero as part of our ongoing educational reform campaign.
June 6, 2020
Today Zamzam Ibrahim (NUS President) and I have written to Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Alok Sharma, Business Secretary, urging them to make substantial investment into net-zero schools as part of the government's fiscal stimulus plan.
February 27, 2020
On 26 February 2020 I, and forty-six AMAZING students, aged 13 to 26, ran a remarkable event in Parliament to engage our parliamentarians in Teach the Future.
February 21, 2020
After celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2018, I believe it is fair to say that the British Youth Council has become a well-established and respected organisation over the years...
February 20, 2020
Thanks so much to all of you that have written to your MPs for us imploring them to attend our reception in Parliament next week. We now have 50 MPs confirmed, which means we are half way to our target of 100! If you haven’t written to your MP, its not too late, here is a template email you can use.
February 5, 2020
Thank you to every single one of the 552 of you that donated to our Crowdfunder! We made it! When we first started we didn’t know if we would raise enough to afford the room hire and compulsory catering order in parliament, as it costs a fortune, but we were amazed when we reached the £4,000 target in just a few weeks.