Heritage Carbon Reduction
The climate crisis remains the defining challenge of our generation and heritage has a role to play. To aid in this, Historic England has put together a series of resources for heritage organisations to reduce their carbon emissions, including workshops, webinars and a knowledge hub where people can share ideas and advice.
This training offer is part of Phase 3 of Historic England’s Sector to Net Zero programme, supporting heritage organisations to take action by measuring their carbon emissions and developing a clear reduction plan. These workshops are offered free of charge as part of a national programme funded and supported by Historic England but the workshops are restricted to those in England due to funding restrictions. The workshops can be completed together or independently depending on where organisations are on their carbon reduction journey.
You can find more information, including on eligibility, on Historic England’s website:
Workshops, knowledge sharing and more!
How to measure a carbon footprint workshop
Sessions running from 10 September to 9 December 2025
Many heritage organisations are keen to understand their carbon footprint and start putting meaningful measures in place to reduce their emissions.
Are you one of them but you don’t know where to start?
Join Historic England for a workshop demystifying carbon accounting and busting the jargon. Together we breakdown the process into digestible steps and leave you confident in your ability to measure your organisation’s first simple carbon footprint.
This is a tw0-hour trainer-led online session designed to support organisations in identifying their emissions and measuring a simple carbon footprint. The session covers the following:
- Identifying your organisations (activities that create) emissions and organise them into scopes
- Calculate your organisations carbon footprint using information about emissions usage and online tools
- Know where to find resources, signposting, and support
By the end of the workshop, learners will have a clear plan of how to gather the information they need and calculate a simple carbon footprint. The workshop is a beginner’s course and designed to be accessible to all.
Find out more and sign up here:
How to write a carbon reduction plan workshop
Sessions running from 24 September to 4 December 2025
Across the heritage sector, organisations are working to reduce their carbon emissions and minimise their contribution to climate change.
Writing a realistic and measurable carbon reduction plan that works with your organisation is not always that easy.
Join Historic England for a workshop that breaks down how to write a basic carbon reduction plan that is aligned with your organisation’s aims. You will leave confident in your abilities to engage your team with the plan and know how to embed it within your governance.
Designed to support organisations to build on their carbon footprint report to write a basic plan for carbon reduction, whilst also engaging with staff, volunteers and visitors. This is a tw0-hour trainer-led online session covers the following:
- Decide on your organisations carbon reduction priorities
- Plan your carbon reduction actions
- Embed within your organisation
By the end of the workshop learners will have started to identify their carbon reduction priorities, have a plan to write carbon reduction actions, and to embed the plan within their organisation’s governance.
To gain the most benefit from this workshop it is advisable for attendees to have a basic carbon footprint report for their organisation.
Find out more and sign up here:
Heritage Carbon Reduction Network
To accompany the courses, Historic England has created the Heritage Carbon Reduction Network, a peer to peer community on Knowledge Hub. Attendees (and anyone interested in Heritage Carbon Reduction) can find information, news and engaging ongoing discussions whilst working to reduce their carbon emissions.
The group is open to anyone who wishes to join and is free. You first have to sign up for a (free) Knowledge Hub account, and then join the group by following the link below.
Coming soon...
Historic England will be expanding the e-learning offering with deep dives and webinars on specific topics. If there is something you’d like to know more about or an idea for a deep dive please contact Historic England at [email protected]