Go Green Salford
Go Green Salford is our Festival of Sustainability held around March and October every year. This is an opportunity to highlight the importance of sustainability, some of the fantastic University of Salford initiatives and inspire positive action among our students, colleagues and local community.
Go Green Salford will be back in October 2025.
You can check out what we got up to in our most recent programme of events below and please get in touch if you have an idea for future events!
Go Green Salford March 2025
We had an incredible time at the Go Green Salford Festival of Sustainability from March 10-22! 🎉 Our community came together to celebrate and learn about sustainability through a variety of engaging activities. Participants gained valuable insights during the Carbon and Nature Literacy Training and Responsible Purchasing Workshop, which provided knowledge on making informed environmental decisions. A session on effective communication and engagement empowered colleagues and students to encourage sustainable actions. Partner organisations also joined us to raise awareness about recycling and pollution prevention.
One of our fashion students organised a fantastic Swap Not Shop event, inspiring fellow students and colleagues to embrace reuse and rethink their shopping habits. The Art Collection Team led an engaging tour of a new nature-related art exhibition at the New Adelphi Gallery, launching their sustainability principles and hosting a Q&A with Alex Nelu, one of the exhibitors from Beyond The Earth and The Sky, about his sustainable practices in art.
Throughout the fortnight, our Library, Careers, and Enterprise Service offered resources to inspire students in green careers. This included a session led by Jessica Beckly, the UK's Environmental Manager at H&MV Engineering, supported by a sustainability-themed book display and a green careers matching game in the library.
We got active and supported our wellbeing through guided bike rides and mental health walks, as well as hands-on community gardening sessions and litter picking to help local wildlife. We closed the festival with a BioBlitz in partnership with the Salford Ranger Team, recording different plants and animals within a designated area. Led by University of Salford academics and local nature experts, this included bird walks and amphibian identification, allowing us to explore the rich biodiversity of Peel Park. We also enjoyed Wildlife and Foraging Walks, discovering local nature and learning about edible and medicinal plants. The Small Mammal Monitoring sessions offered hands-on experience in surveying and identifying local mammal species, and the Bat Walks used bat detectors to observe and hear nocturnal wildlife.
Across the 25 events throughout the festival, we had over 1000 engagements from students, colleagues, and local community members. Thank you to all our participants and supporters who made this event a success!
Go Green Salford will be back in October 2025 with more sustainability-themed events and activities to get involved with!
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Past events
You can find out about all the past events that have run as a part of Go Green Salfordin each academic year. Past activities have included talks about decarbonisation of our campus, sustainable homes or our local wildlife, popups on campus on how bad are bananas, how to reduce waste and recycle more. Additionally, regular gardening sessions in Peel Park and the Community Growing Space, hedgerow planting, cycle maintenance and litter picking.