For many people sustainability just relates to being “green”. However, personal sustainability is key in ensuring overall sustainability. Personal sustainability is underpinned by not just maintaining one’s own health and wellbeing, but also by actively improving it and supporting others to do so too. There are numerous campaigns every year related to eating the right foods in the right proportions,… Read more →
The University is supporting individuals towards personal wellbeing – both staff and students – through its Fit for Life programme. The programme has six elements Eat Well, Drink Well, Exercise Well, Sleep Well, Work Well and Stay Well, which are planned to be inclusive of the whole University Community. One of the key elements related to the Work Well element… Read more →
In a bid to help students, staff and visitors travelling between University sites, we have introduced the UniShuttle, a direct bus service taking people between all of the University’s sites; St John’s, Riverside and City. With the additional 31B UniShuttle, you can now catch a bus every 10 minutes from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday with the 31, 31C… Read more →
A grant of £10,134 has been awarded to the University of Worcester Bike Loan Scheme, by Nesta, an independent charity which aims to support people and organisations to implement innovative ideas. All University students and staff can now borrow a bike for a 48 hour period from two locations: St John’s campus and City Campus. Members will be able to… Read more →
The University of Worcester Students’ Union has won funding from the National Union of Students (NUS) to implement its innovative project Energize Worcester to tackle poor energy efficiency in private student accommodation. Competing against 120 other projects and Unions Worcester was chosen to be one of 25 projects from the funding given to the NUS from the Higher Education Funding… Read more →
The University of Worcester has teamed up with Liftshare, the UK’s largest car-share provider, to give Worcester students and staff their very own car share scheme. Car sharing is good for the environment, helps reduce traffic congestion, and saves money! The scheme is free to join, completely secure, and available to all students and staff with a University of Worcester… Read more →
