Our environment


Across our three school sites, including the charity’s operational headquarters at LVS Ascot, we are home to more than 900 students and nearly 400 employees. Managing and mitigating our environmental impact is important to us in an operational sense as it ensures we are efficient, but it is also important to our employees and our pupils.


We look to improve the way we run our buildings, reducing consumption and waste across the sites, but we also look to empower our staff and pupils to do the same. That can be initiatives that have an impact on-site, for example how plastics are used within our catering operations, or it can be influencing behaviours that have a benefit beyond the school gate.


Our investment in the school has and continues to be significant, more than £2.3m was invested through our capital investment programme in 2017. By 2021 we will have invested a further £11.5m as we look to bring forward a range of projects across the three sites.


As a responsible organisation we look at achieving impact across three broad areas as we aim to reduce, reuse and recycle more across our sites. We look at improving the way we work through improved processes and building management systems, we enhance and upgrade our buildings to increase efficiency and reduce consumption, and we work with our suppliers to ensure they share our aspirations.


20 Licensed Trade Charity Impact Report 2017 Monitoring consumption


With much of LVS Ascot already included in our advanced building management system our focus now is on extending this to include the junior school and boarding rooms. As a whole, the system enables us to better manage, monitor and understand how energy and water is consumed. By highlighting where consumption of electricity, gas or water is higher than expected we can investigate the causes of these – and then through our capital programme look at infrastructure improvements that facilitate a real and measurable reduction in consumption.


Over time, these savings will equate to reductions in our operational costs, but more importantly it will help reduce the overall environmental impact and carbon footprint.


Capital improvements


In 2017 we invested more than £2.3m into our buildings and equipment. These improvements ensure we continue to provide an inspirational space for our students, but also offer clear environmental outcomes. Energy consumption is reduced as we continue introducing LED lighting across the buildings, while new more efficient mechanical plant replaces older boilers and pumps that took more energy to run and operate. In student and staff areas simple things like tap sensors and low flush toilets reduce water use, while behind the scenes the replacement of pipework reduces leaks, but also tackles thermal heat loss from our heating system. These and other programmes will continue over the coming years.


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