Elizabeth Gaskell’s House – Interactive Garden Trail using QR codes to provide fun facts and information on plants and wildlife, and on ways to reduce carbon emissions.

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre – An Eco-Sewing Circle of community volunteers making quilted covers as an alternative to bubble wrap for protecting plinth lids in storage.

Bolton Library & Museum Service – Water of Life exhibition and activities developed with the Youth Forum, a group of young people aged 14- 21, working with Recycle for Greater Manchester and a creative practitioner.

(PDF 1402KB) A green guide for museums highlighting case studies from museums across the North West

(Microsoft Word 124 KB) This Data Checklist will help you to gather and record the measurements and values you will need to input into the U-values Heat Calculator Tool.

(PDF 6 MB) This guide can help you to determine the energy efficiency of your building by calculating U-values. Used alongside the Heat Calculator Tool and Data Checklist you can plan your improvements to improve the efficiency of your building and reduce energy costs.

(Excel Spreadsheet) The U-values Heat Calculator Tool has been designed to help you improve the energy efficiency of your buildings. Used alongside the Data Checklist and U-values Guide, this tool can be used to test your building improvement initiatives to give indicative results on possible U-value improvements. A U-value is a measure of how well different materials perform with retaining heat. The lower the U-value the better the thermal performance.

(PDF 2021KB) A guide for reducing operating costs and improving sustainability.