

Community empowerment skills for adults
Recognise and showcase best practice.
Colleges should ...
Celebrate success and showcase best practice with green skills adoption to all stakeholders using a wide range of channels.
Pilot new community-based provision in green skills.
Colleges should ...
Colleges should, with support from WMCA, pilot new and innovative community-based provision to support empowerment in green skills.
Partner with community groups on green skills.
Colleges should ...
Partner with community groups to engage people locally in projects that support sustainability and green skills.
Develop programmes to support community-based sustainability initiatives.
Colleges should ...
Using WMCA flexibilities in adult education funding, some colleges, working in partnership with community groups, could develop adult education programmes designed to provide adults with the skills to engage in community-based sustainability initiatives including programmes in:
- Sustainable and organic community gardens.
- Rewilding your neighbourhoods.
- Creating and caring for green spaces.
- Saving on fuel bills.
- Retrofitting green technologies on your house.
- Recycling and upcycling.
- Sustainable travel.

Green skills at the heart of strategy

Technical green skills for young people and adults

Green custodianship skills for young people

Community empowerment skills for adults

Sustainability leadership skills for employers
