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Bristol City honoured for climate action work
Bristol City have some new silverware to put on display at Ashton Gate.
The inaugural Climate Action Award given at the annual Football Supporters’ Association Awards has been won for the club’s Project Whitebeam.
City run the sustainability project alongside Bristol Bears and Bristol Flyers, as well as Ashton Gate Stadium, to “recognise, measure and minimise” their impact on the environment.
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Changes already made through Project Whitebeam (named after a tree only found in the Avon Gorge) include:
- Ashton Gate generating more than 100,000kWh of electricity though solar panels on the Lansdown Stand roof
- The Robins High Performance Centre meets 91.72 per cent of its overall energy using air source heat pumps
- Surplus matchday food at Ashton Gate is donated to a women’s homeless shelter less than a mile away from the stadium
- Bristol Sport have hosted a FareShare warehouse for more than two years, providing more than 4.5m meals for those living with food insecurity
- More than 290m2 of wildflowers have been planted around the Robins High Performance Centre in Failand
Bristol City and Bristol Sport representatives receive their award at the FSA Awards from Victoria Derbyshire (far left) – photo: FSA
Bristol Sport project manager, Peter Smith, said: “It’s wonderful to have our work recognised on a national level, especially by the FSA.
“Fans, staff, and partners need to collaborate and our work with Pledgeball has already seen us come together to make positive change.
“We’re aware that we have a long way to go but change is already proving to be positive in many ways.”
Main photo: JMP
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