The College is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Beyond Gold award at the University's 2024–2025 Sustainability Showcase. This follows two consecutive years of achieving Gold awards in Green Impact - a cross-university initiative which encourages staff and students to work together to take practical actions to improve sustainability.
The Beyond Gold award recognises institutions that have not only demonstrated consistent excellence in sustainability but have gone above and beyond in their environmental initiatives. This year, Corpus's submission highlighted both ongoing and new projects.
To promote biodiversity and support local wildlife, bird boxes and feeders have been installed across College sites, including Barn Owl and Tawny Owl boxes in the Fellows’ Garden. The Green Impact Team has also set-up a wildlife camera to capture the improvement in biodiversity where birdboxes and feeders were installed. It has also introduced new strategies to reduce waste and continued to build on long-term plans to decarbonise historic buildings, integrating sustainable practices with heritage conservation.
This extends last year’s achievements, which included participation in the Farm to Fork project with Good Food Oxfordshire, the launch of a consolidated delivery pilot and progress towards creating the first Passivhaus building linked to a sixteenth-century building.
Student engagement has remained a central part of the College’s sustainability mission. Initiatives include wildflower planting, bioblitzes, and collaborative Bike Days with Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, offering free repairs and cycling safety resources. During Green Action Week, events such as a climate mini hackathon and nature documentary screening helped raise awareness and foster community involvement.
In addition, this year’s Ging Wong Seminar, organised by the MCR, took a sustainability focus, bringing together alumni working in diverse sectors to form an insightful panel on their work and career paths in sustainability. The event highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and inspired current students to consider how their own future careers might contribute to climate action and environmental responsibility.