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Jul 2022
Harrogate College in line for sustainable education award
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Harrogate College in line for sustainable education award
Harrogate College has been shortlisted for a Green Gown Award, recognising the best efforts to build sustainability through education.
The college is nominated in the Tomorrow's Employees category for "feedback driven curriculums brought to life through collaboration: embedding sustainability and excelling in retrofit provision".
It faces competition from six other institutions, including the University of Aberdeen, Nottingham Trent University and York St John.
The category called for entries which demonstrated students were leaving education "future-fit" with an understanding of a sustainable industry and economy.
Harrogate College’s cultural, contemporary and heritage studies programme manager, Jason Parry, said:
The awards are organised by the EAUC, an alliance for sustainability leadership in education, and sponsored by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, executive chair of the Natural Environment Research Council, said:
The awards will be presented in a ceremony at Loughborough University on November 8.
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Cycling fundraiser in memory of Knaresborough company's employee
An employee of pest control specialist Pelsis Group is cycling 550 miles from the Netherlands to the company’s Knaresborough headquarters to fundraise in memory of a former colleague.
Sales manager Chris Rodgers is undertaking the challenge to help raise funds for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), which former Pelsis employee Derek Hurst died from in 2019 aged 49.
Named the "Tour de Derek", the 13-day challenge will see Chris cycle from Pelsis’s office in Barneveld, the Netherlands, via its office in Bornem, Belgium, all the way to the company’s headquarters in Knaresborough.
All funds raised from the challenge will be split equally between the Cure CJD Campaign and St Teresa’s Hospice in Darlington, where Derek was cared for following his diagnosis.
Chris Rodgers from Pelsis with his bike
Chris said:
For more information on how to donate to Chris’s Tour de Derek cycling challenge, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/raising-funds-in-memory-of-derek-hurst.
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