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Take part in fun activities to help the environment

Since the ÖйúPÕ¾ Environment Partnership's Rethink Waste scheme launched, it has awarded £18,500 to 22 ÖйúPÕ¾ primary schools. These were chosen by ÖйúPÕ¾ residents who have signed up to the scheme. Now with a further £3,000 on offer, residents can give a gift to local children by signing up and taking part.

Understanding Rethink Waste

Sign up to Rethink Waste and complete fun, easy online activities that help you reduce waste and win points. Select a school and donate your points to them. At the end of each month between January and March 2025, the two schools with the most points will take home a share of £1,000 to use to fund an environmental project.

So far, nearly 11,000 households in ÖйúPÕ¾ have signed up to take part in Rethink Waste. Over 165,000 activities have been completed which reduces the amount of waste produced in the county and helps to save money on waste.

And ÖйúPÕ¾ residents have chosen some great projects to get behind too. Money from Rethink Waste has funded many projects. These range from creating brand new outdoor classrooms, to buying litter picking sets, building new guinea pig homes and building raised beds.

If you want to take part, now.

Schools taking part and the projects they will fund if they win

• Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School, Aldershot – buy litter pickers.
• Ashley CofE Primary School, Walton-on-Thames – buy a new polytunnel.
• Beaufort Primary School, Woking – build a hedgehog haven.
• Buckland Primary School, Staines-upon-Thames – increase recycling facilities and build animal homes.
• Cleves School, Weybridge – build green canopy roofs and benches.
• Earlswood Infant and Nursery School, Redhill – create a sensory garden.
• Earlswood Junior School, Redhill – rejuvenate the school's quiet area.
• Fetcham Village Infant School, Leatherhead – develop woodland area.
• Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Woking – create a recycling centre.
• Knaphill School, Woking – buy indoor and outdoor plants.
• Meath Green Infant School, Horley – develop food recycling and set up a community milk fridge.
• Merrow Junior School, Guildford – buy litter pickers and plant wildflowers.
• Northmead Junior School, Guildford – expand outdoor education area.
• Polesden Lacey Infant School, Leatherhead – buy litter pickers and help a solar panel project.
• Puttenham CofE Infant School, Guildford – buy new palm drills, a saw, poles to create a den, a slack line and a bench for a mud kitchen.
• Saxon Primary School, Shepperton – install bug houses, a hedgehog house and a pergola.
• Shere CofE Aided Infant School, Guildford – buy flower seeds, trees and create a canopy.
• St Alban's Catholic Primary School, Molesey – buy signs for a recycling station, develop food recycling and set up a school farm shop.
• St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Chertsey – buy litter pickers.
• St James CofE Primary School, Weybridge – develop green spaces and an allotment.
• St Martin's CofE Primary School, Dorking – develop a nature-friendly area.
• Walton-on-the-Hill Primary School, Tadworth – create class gardens for every year group.