Our Parliamentary Reception is on Tuesday 8 October 2024 from 2-4pm. This will take place in The Terrace Pavilion, House of Commons and is sponsored by Nadia Whittome MP.

Teach the Future is a youth-led campaign to urgently repurpose the entire education system around the climate emergency and ecological crisis. Fund the Future* is our advocacy campaign to secure increased public funding for the retrofitting and rebuilding of schools.

Our reception will facilitate collaboration on repairing and decarbonising our schools between MPs, young people, education providers, energy and carbon reduction professionals and other key stakeholders. We will introduce our aim and share the barriers schools currently face, the impacts of this and the opportunities available to ensure our schools are safe, comfortable and reach net-zero.

Afternoon tea will be provided.

Please confirm your attendance by registering to this event. We will be in touch with an official invitation and hope to meet you on October 8th.

We would like as many MPs to attend as possible. Please help us and encourage their attendance by sending your local MP an email invite using one of our templates.

AGENDA:

2-2:30pm: Arrivals, photo opportunities, networking, view our creative displays

2:30-3:05pm: Speeches from Nadia Whittome MP, Phil Clarke (NEU President), Alex Green (Head of Let's Go Zero) and young people from Teach the Future.

3:05pm-4pm: Afternoon tea, photo opportunities and networking with 'stations' to speak to young people, educators and key industry professionals.

In partnership with:

*Fund the Future is a grantee of the Zero Carbon Fund.

Teach the Future is a youth-led campaign to embed solutions-focussed, quality climate education into the national curriculum across the UK. The campaign was founded in 2019 by secondary school students who were frustrated at the poor-quality and minimal climate education that they were experiencing. Teach the Future has had significant impact, including introducing the first ever bill written by children - the Climate Education Bill - and securing cross-party support for it. The campaign was also instrumental in influencing the Department for Education to publish their sustainability and climate change strategy. The campaign is led by student volunteers and a few part-time student staff (aged 14-26) and is hosted by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK).