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Celebrating Your School’s Environmental Achievements
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What the Schools’ said…
Celebratory Event
On the Thursday November 6 2025, we invited all participating schools to a celebratory event kindly hosted by Dorking Library.
During the informal event, to say thank you for their participation, schools were invited to take books from a selection. Plus each school was given a £40.00 Heath books voucher which was presented by Monica from Heath Books
Marissa Heath, Cabinet Member for Environment, Tim Hall, Chair of Surrey Council and Stephen Cooksey, Surrey County Councillor for Dorking South and the Holmwoods, were in attendance.
Thank you
We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals for their support of this project.
Monica at Heath Books
Sarah Haynes • Group Manager, South East Dorking, Bookham and Leatherhead Libraries and the Dorking Library Team.
Thank you to Marissa Heath, Cabinet Member for Environment and Ed Cowley, Climate Change Officer who helped us with this project.
Thank you to Surrey County Councillor Stephen Cooksey for helping us to fund our Schools projects through Your Fund Surrey.
Thank you to Circular Dorking members, Dorking Business Breakfast Group for the kind donation towards this project.
The team at Circular Dorking would like to also thank Damn Cheek Theatre Company. Many legacy projects have been formed because of the friendships forged during the making of their Passion for the Planet production in 2023. One of these legacy projects was the formation of the Circular Dorking Schools’ Team.
About the Project
Circular Dorking is inviting our local Mole Valley schools to tell us about the three biggest environmental achievements they are most proud of by either creating their own poster (up to A3 in size) or using one of the templates below. We are contacting all schools in the area and feel this is a great link with the Surrey Climate Resilience focus for 2025/26.
This celebratory event is not a competition and we want to make sure we can share as many schools’ efforts as possible within the space we have. For this reason we may need to limit the number of posters displayed from each school.
How it works
Open to all schools and children’s organisations across Mole Valley.
- Let us know you are taking part by emailing us indicating how many posters you anticipate sharing and we will arrange collection when they are completed.
- Either download a template from the choice below or create you own poster (maximum size A3).
- Start originating an eye-catching poster displaying your school’s achievements.
Examples of achievements could be:
- achieving Eco-Schools status
- planting trees within the school grounds
- establishing a gardening club
- inviting a speaker in to school for an assembly
- promoting sustainability through a special project or activity
All you need to do is add photos or drawings on the poster/s to celebrate your achievements. Posters can be completed by students or teachers or both.
Timeline
- Duration to complete your poster/s – Monday 1 September until Monday 20 October
- Circular Dorking will collect the posters from Monday 20 October
Guidance Downloads
Template Downloads Pdf format
Note: templates are A3 size.
Template Downloads MS Word format
Note: templates are A3 size.
What happened?
Posters were on diplay as part of Green Libraries Week, 27 October – 21 November 2025
We hope this poster display will make the wider community aware of all the great eco work our local schools are doing.
An event was held at Dorking Library on Thursday 6 November 2025.
To celebrate the efforts of our schools we teamed up with Surrey based school book supplier Heath Books to supply all participating schools with some free books – the books will be suited to Early Years, Primary and Secondary readers. We also awarded Books Vouchers to all participating schools so they and their pupils could choose the books they wanted.
Sharing the project
If any group or organisation would like to do a similar project and wish to use our resources they are most welcome.
