PECT Projects
Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) has delivers groundbreaking and innovative projects of local, regional and national significance. We are working for a cleaner, greener, healthier city, enabling change for a sustainable future.



UN Climate Change Conference


In December this year, when homes across the UK are digging out decorations, buying presents and hanging lights, world leaders from 192 countries will meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference between 7th-18th December 2009.

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Climate Change Strategy
The main objectives of the Climate Change Strategy for Peterborough are to:
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Green Day 2009

 

Green Day is an annual event in Peterborough where people across the city wear an item of green clothing to show their support for Peterborough's ambition to create the UK's Environment Capital.
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Queensgate Waste Audit
Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) was commissioned by Queensgate Shopping Centre to conduct a comprehensive audit of waste management operations at the Centre.
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Our Consultancy Services

Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) has over fifteen years experience in providing environmental consultancy services.
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Environmental Education Awards 2010


Peterborough’s inagural Environmental Education Awards were a great sucess!

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Greener Schools Photo Competition 2007
The entries for the Greener Schools photo competition in 2007
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Green Beat
 
Forty pupils from six schools across Peterborough are making music from rubbish as part of a project which aims to show that, with a little imagination, things we throw away can be re-used. 
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Volunteer Exchange
Matching schools with volunteers from local businesses to create exciting outdoor classrooms with vegetable patches, ponds, flowerbeds and wildlife corners.
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Greener Schools
Website for teachers listing all environmental education providers and resources available locally.
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Squircle Cono Sur
green festival: cono sur outdoor challenge
 
Skills for the future

Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) a new project has launched in Peterborough to help ensure Peterborough has the skills and experience needed to ensure the city’s heritage and natural environment is looked after in the future.

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Wet Woods
This project started in 2003 with the aim to develop a strategy for wet woodland creation, expansion and management in the Peterborough area.
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Peterborough natural environment audit
The Peterborough Natural Environment Audit was completed in 1996 and is described by English Nature as the UK’s first local biodiversity action plan.
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Sustain Lincolnshire

Sustain Lincolnshire is helping businesses across Lincolnshire save money and reduce their impact on the environment.

The expert help is being provided free of charge to eligible small to medium sized enterprises in the region.
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Investors in the Environment


Help yourself by helping the environment!


Investors in the Environment is your opportunity to gain environmental accreditation through genuine change and environmental improvement as a business.

In January 2010 we launched Peterborough's very own environmental accreditation scheme for businesses and organisations. (See the launch photos)
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Top tips for greening your business…
Many organisations in Peterborough are already taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint. Here are some simple steps you can take which will make a real impact on the environment and your bottom line.
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Eastex Materials Exchange
Eastex Materials Exchange is a free, web-based scheme where businesses can re-home unwanted materials rather than sending them to landfill. Other businesses, community groups and schools can benefit from donations of unwanted materials.
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Love Local

We want to change the way people shop, cook and eat!
 

We're helping people access affordable locally produced food, and learn how to cook healthy meals.

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Contact us
 


For more information about the Green Festival please contact:

 
Stuart Payn, Green Festival Coordinator

Peterborough Environment City Trust
Call: 01733 866 435
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Pics from previous Green Festivals...

 
Green Festival Photo Competition 2008
The entries from the 2008 Green Festival photo competition where the theme was 'Our Changing Environment'.
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Green Wheel points of interest

 

Shanks Millennium Bridge

The Shanks Millennium Bridge over the River Nene at Stanground Washes provides a direct, safe and fully off-road link between Peterborough and Whittlesey for commuter and leisure cyclists, horse riders and pedestrians. 
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Green Wheel Photo Gallery
Click on the thumbnails below to start browsing the photo gallery. If you have any photo's from around the Green Wheel you can send email them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for us to add them here. 
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Peterborough Transport Audit
PECT's Transport Audit, undertaken in partnership with Perkins Engines, Peterborough City Council and Newcastle University's Transport Operations Research Group was published in September 2003.
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An Inconvenient Truth for Peterborough
Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT), Peterborough City Council, and the Greater Peterborough Partnership have developed a short video based on Al Gore’s climate change film An Inconvenient Truth. 
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Green Day 2009


Green Day 2009...
Wednesday 18th November

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Textiles Recycling Project

 

Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) working with Peterborough City Council surveyed over 700 local residents as part of a project to overhaul textiles recycling in Peterborough.

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Warm Homes Peterborough

Warm Homes Peterborough, PECT’s community-based fuel poverty project, has entered its second year and is now offering free home visits to Registered Social Landlord tenants in the neighbourhoods of Paston, Ravensthorpe and East ward (as well as continuing to work with tenants in Dogsthorpe and Central ward).

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Green Energy Switch

Green Energy Switch
is a website to help people in Peterborough switch to a green energy supplier, find hints and tips on living sustainably, learn about saving energy in the home, and explore home renewable energy options.
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Schools Gardening Exhibition
As part of the Green Festival and Peterborough in Bloom 2009 Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) and Peterborough City Council organised an exhibition in local libraries to showcase the gardening projects taking place in the city's schools. 
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Greener Schools Photo Competition 2008
Here are some of the entries from the 2008 Photo Competition...
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Eco Schools
Support for schools working towards achieving an Eco School award or the Sustainable Schools Framework.
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Greener Futures
An online resource for delivering environmental education with sites for KS1+2 and KS3. 
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Squicle Ecomedy
green festival Ecomedy show
 
Walk Peterborough

Walk Peterborough!      
 

The city’s first iPhone app is now available for download! We've developed the app to help local people explore the great outdoors and get fit.
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Greater Peterborough Green Grid
A vision for a quality green environment in an expanding city. Peterborough Environment City Trust is working with partners in the city
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Sustainable Community Green Spaces
The project empowered local communities to take direct control of their local green spaces and worked on improving 8 inner city sites.
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Geology Audit
The Peterborough Geology Audit (1999) provides the foundations for policies to conserve some of the world's best Jurassic fossil sites.
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Zero Waste Week

Zero Waste Week is held in November each year and challenges businesses to reduce the amount of waste they produce.  
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Zero Waste Places Peterborough

Peterborough has been named one of the six UK cities to trial innovative methods of waste management and reduction as part of the government's Zero Waste Places scheme.

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Business Envestors
business envestors logoBusiness Envestors has over ten years experience in helping both public and private sector clients reduce environmental impact and increase profits.
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Forest

We're creating a Forest for Peterborough...
 

Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) is working with a range of different partners to create a Forest for Peterborough.

If you would like to find out more, read the Forest for Peterborough business plan.  This document outlines the vision and provides a framework for parternship arrangements, planting policy and future management of the project.

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Winter Warmth


Winter Warmth
 


The Winter Warmth Partnership is a project aiming to reduce winter deaths and illness in the elderly and most vulnerable people in our local community. On average there are 86 deaths in Peterborough every year* due to cold weather and many more are injured or taken ill. These statistics are simply not acceptable in modern society where the majority of these cases could be easily avoided.


The three month project managed by Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT), in association with Peterborough City Council, The Salvation Army, and Age UK, aims to tackle the problems caused by winter weather through:
Providing practical advice on heating the home and reducing energy bills

Giving advice on benefit entitlement

Home visits and general minor repairs

Help with shopping and other tasks during cold weather

Links to and advice about other services that may be beneficial

 
What's more, all the advice and services provided are completely free! **
PECT is providing a hotline for elderly, relatives and friends to call to receive helpful friendly advice over the phone and arrange home visits for more specialised practical steps to take in the home.
So please call our hotline now to speak to one of our specialist advisors: 01733 882 544
 
* Source: Department of Health, Health Profile 2011: Peterborough, www.apho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=105334
** Shopping and some repairs will require clients to purchase goods but the services provided are free-of-charge


         
 
Greeniversity

 

Thanks to a £70,000 grant from the Transformation Fund Peterborough’s Greeniversity has been established!


The aim of Greeniversity is to promote informal adult education - learning just for fun. And to encourage local people to learn 'green skills'.

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Seeding Sustainable Communities
This project helps local residents change their behaviour to live in a more environmentally friendly way.
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Green Wheel Map
We will be adding extra content to this Google Map so come back soon to see what else can be found on the Green Wheel cycle route.
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UK Environment Capital
Fifteen years ago Peterborough was made one of four UK Environment Cities. Since this time Peterborough has worked hard to
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Green Wheel
 
The Green Wheel network of cycle routes provides over 45 miles of continuous sustainable routes around the city.
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