Simple Changes

A Globally Responsible Wales

Take one action for global learning such as getting involved in Fairtrade Fortnight, Go Green Day or Earth Hour.

Involvement

Carry out a ‘you said, we did’ exercise

A Prosperous Wales

Maximise the potential for apprenticeships in your organisation

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your energy contracts, pension providers and investment portfolios and reduce your burden on the planet and its people

A More Equal Wales

Set targets for the retention of women returning from maternity leave.

A Resilient Wales

Play your part in enabling local partnerships for all aspects of the natural environment

A Prosperous Wales

Hold regular surgeries for suppliers

A Globally Responsible Wales

Calculate and understand your organisation’s carbon footprint.

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Play your part in enabling local people to come together in communities to meet and build social networks

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Use the Cymraeg comma on lanyards and email signatures of all staff who are Welsh speakers

A Healthier Wales

Consider supporting your communities to redesign their streets to improve their health and wellbeing

A More Equal Wales

Promote job-sharing opportunities for elected representatives e.g. councillors

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Support and promote the Night Out Scheme

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Consider the opportunities to support and develop local clubs involved in sport

A Healthier Wales

Provide mental health and suicide awareness training for all staff

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure continued free access to museums, libraries and green spaces

A More Equal Wales

Offer deaf awareness training and British Sign Language (BSL) training for your staff, particularly for those on the front line

A Globally Responsible Wales

Use only Recycled Paper, and set a date to be paper free, and when printing move towards using only soy-based inks

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore opportunities for intergenerational activities

Involvement

Train relevant staff in principles and practices of public involvement

A Healthier Wales

Provide lockers for your employees

A Prosperous Wales

Consider opportunities to second staff within and between organisations, to share knowledge and develop transferable skills

A Prosperous Wales

Become a Living Wage employer

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Help staff and residents to save and borrow with local credit unions

A Resilient Wales

Provide spaces for wildlife such as bird boxes, insect home ponds and bat boxes – especially in new developments

A Healthier Wales

Encourage walking and standing meetings, where appropriate

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Promote opportunities for older people to engage in culture, through the Gwanwyn Festival.

A Globally Responsible Wales

Ensure your organisation takes part in Fair Trade Fortnight

A Resilient Wales

Manage road verges and connected green spaces (such as spaces around buildings) for wildflowers and pollination

A Resilient Wales

Procure and plant native trees and shrubs as a first choice

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure that arts venues you work with are signed up to the National Access Scheme (Hynt)

A More Equal Wales

Ensure employees receive refugee and asylum seeker awareness training

A Prosperous Wales

Support SMEs, social businesses and co-operatives to work together to jointly bid for contracts.

Involvement

Take involvement opportunities to people, rather than expecting them to come to you.

A Prosperous Wales

Appoint social value champions.

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Consider supporting communities and/or your organisation to become dementia-friendly

Involvement

Include public involvement in planning, monitoring, reporting and staff appraisal

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Give free access to Park Run on any publicly-owned land

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Publicise opportunities to volunteer locally

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Enable local people to improve unloved space

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore whether you could use participatory budgeting approaches to enable people to make decisions about how some funds are allocated

A Healthier Wales

Review your policies to ensure you’re optimising opportunities to improve your employees’ health and wellbeing

A Prosperous Wales

Exploring funding options, or supporting community groups, to develop renewable energy projects on public land

A Resilient Wales

Adopt a single-use plastic policy, to remove single-use plastics from your estate

A Healthier Wales

Build up a picture of how easy your workplace makes it for those that want to walk, cycle or use public transport, and identify areas for improvement

Involvement

Share public engagement opportunities and data with other organisations

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Encourage community transport opportunities

Involvement

Ensure you are having ‘what matters’ conversations

A Resilient Wales

Use peat-free compost in planting schemes across cities, towns and villages

A Prosperous Wales

Pay your suppliers promptly

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your approach to refugees and asylum seekers and play your part in Wales becoming a Nation of Sanctuary

A Prosperous Wales

Encourage staff to hold meetings in local and independent coffee shops and cafes.

A Healthier Wales

Encourage your employees to take breaks and eat away from their desk

A Resilient Wales

Facilitate opportunities for volunteering with environmental organisations during or outside of work

Involvement

Use plain English and Welsh as standard in any documents intended for the public

A Healthier Wales

Have a flexible working policy

A More Equal Wales

Make public information accessible through a variety of formats

A Globally Responsible Wales

Promote leadership opportunities to your staff to understand global contexts

A Resilient Wales

Explore offering hot-desking or video conferencing facilities to other public bodies.

A Resilient Wales

Map public land to identify and publicise land that is accessible for use by community groups, with the aim of connecting wildlife habitats

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Map out the community anchor organisations you are working with and explore further opportunities

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Engage in National Play Day

A Healthier Wales

Take stock of mental health in your workplace

Involvement

Engage on a theme rather than a specific policy

A Resilient Wales

Provide ‘biodiversity / green infrastructure’ learning for staff across ALL Departments

A More Equal Wales

Ensure that your staff undertake training about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Involvement

Involve people at the earliest possible opportunity

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Encourage your staff to sign up for and use their free library card, providing accessible information on what the library offer

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your procurement policy and ensure that it includes fair and ethical practices (to include fair trade, marine stewardship council and forestry stewardship council

A More Equal Wales

Provide ‘walk throughs’ of your services for your staff (particularly those in decision making roles) and governance leads

A More Equal Wales

Publishing data on protected characteristics and pay grades within the workforce. This includes the gender pay-gap

A Globally Responsible Wales

Support your staff and visitors to understand their personal carbon footprints

A Globally Responsible Wales

Check whether your contracts meet the needs of the Modern Slavery Act

A More Equal Wales

Have initiatives to recruit people from groups that are under-represented in your workforce

A Resilient Wales

Reduce the use of pesticides and fertilisers on road verges and in urban green spaces

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure that all of your access points have bilingual greetings.

A Prosperous Wales

Ensure that new developments and retrofitting of existing facilities must consider renewable energy sources and recycled materials

A More Equal Wales

Encourage your staff to visit local projects and meet key local people driving change

Involvement

Use a variety of accessible, inclusive engagement methods and formats

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore the potential of time credits within your organisation

A Healthier Wales

Consider how you can ensure children have access to daily outdoor play

A Prosperous Wales

Publish and analyse data about how you procure goods and services.

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