About Us

EAUC is the leading body for sustainability in the post-16 education sector in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

We've been promoting sustainability in post-16 education for over 20 years. Primarily a membership body, we serve 300 organisations whilst also working to change systems that enable sustainability action.

We’re both a charity and a company limited by guarantee and are always not-for-profit.

Our vision

A post-16 education system that creates a world with sustainability at its heart.

Our purpose

We exist to lead and empower the post-16 education sector to embed sustainability in everything it does. We promote holistic whole organisation approaches where leadership and governance, estates and operations, teaching and learning and collaborations are all actively driving sustainability so that we’re equipping learners for their lives, being responsible organisations and shaping society for the better.

We do this by:

Supporting our members to create meaningful sustainability change
Convening our network to generate solutions to shared challenges
Creating systems change to establish a more enabling environment for sustainability action.

Our goals for 2030

We know our organisation is built on solid foundations, but we need to increase the scale and pace at which we work. We want to be more ambitious and more impactful, unleashing our potential as a catalyst of transformational change across our sector. By 2030:

Our members will be achieving their ambitious sustainability goals
All publicly funded post-16 education organisations in the UK and the ROI will be engaged through our work
We will provide unparalleled expertise on sustainability in post-16 education
The systems and frameworks which shape post-16 education will promote and embed sustainability action

Our values

We are first and foremost values led. Our values set out what you can expect from us, and what we expect from those we work with.

Collaborative - We foster communities, connect people and work smartly with other organisations.
Integrity - We are an ‘honest broker’ of expertise and share not just our successes but lessons learned.
Ambitious - We focus on impact, stimulating innovation and driving progress across the sector. We strive for excellence.
Inclusive - We centre equity, diversity and inclusion in everything we do.
Empowering - We build capacity and expertise.