Help a Chertsey primary school support the environment

Sign up to the Rethink Waste's Schools Scheme and you or your family can complete fun, easy online activities that help you reduce waste, for which you win points. Then just select St Anne’s and donate your points to them. At the end of February and March 2025, the two schools in Surrey with the most points will receive a share of £1,000 that they’ll use to fund an environmental project.

Runnymede Borough Council is a key partner in the Surrey Environment Partnership’s Rethink Waste scheme which is designed to promote correct recycling of dry and food waste. 

We’re encouraging everyone, when you’re putting out your waste and recycling, remember, every cook needs a caddy! Food waste goes into a bag in your green caddy and then the caddy can go on to the street every week on your bin collection day. It’s important not to put food waste in your blue lid recycling bin. If you do, it could mean the whole bin’s contents can’t be recycled.

Since Rethink Waste launched, it has awarded £19,500 to 24 Surrey primary schools as chosen by Surrey residents who’ve signed up to the scheme. And now, with a further £2,000 on offer you too can give a gift to local schools by signing up and taking part.

During the last phase of the campaign, The Grange Community Infant School was a winner, and its prize money was used to create a sensory garden for the children.

So far, over 12,000 households in Surrey have signed up to take part in Rethink Waste. 

And residents have chosen some great projects to get behind too. Money from Rethink Waste has funded projects ranging from creating brand new outdoor classrooms to buying litter picking sets, building new guinea pig homes and building raised beds. 

To take part, sign up to Rethink Waste online or download the app.