Brunel Museum joins about 60 organisations giving staff 2 extra paid holiday days, to travel overland
In 2019 the climate organisation, Possible, set up the Climate Perks campaign to encourage employers to let their staff have two extra paid days, when going on holiday, so they could avoid going by plane, and go overland instead. Now the Brunel Museum in London has joined Climate Perks, and is the first museum to do so. Extra days out of the office to travel sustainably mean employees can make a choice that’s better for our planet without missing out on their annual leave. Centres for learning and culture, like Brunel Museum, are invaluable places for initiatives like this to start gaining prominence. Here’s to more museums following suit! The Brunel Museum is just one of the 60 or so organisations that have signed up to the scheme. Interested in getting your workplace onboard? Find out more and get in touch at www.climateperks.com.
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This London museum helps staff choose flight-free holiday travel
From the Possible campaign
We’re excited to announce that the Brunel Museum has just joined Climate Perks – the employee benefit scheme that empowers staff to choose flight-free holidays by offering paid ‘journey days’ for slow travel.
Flying is the fastest growing cause of greenhouse gases globally. And with no zero-carbon planes waiting in the wings, we need to encourage people across the UK and beyond to cut down on flights.
While the environmental benefits of travelling by train, ferry or coach are huge, it does generally take a bit longer than taking a plane. And that’s what Climate Perks is all about. Extra days out of the office to travel sustainably mean employees can make a choice that’s better for our planet without missing out on their hard-earned annual leave.
Last week the Brunel Museum became the first museum to introduce the policy. Their staff are now entitled to a minimum of two paid “journey days” on top of their annual leave so they are able to take low carbon transport options over flights.
Having a museum sign up for Climate Perks is brilliant. Centres for learning and culture, like Brunel Museum, are invaluable places for initiatives like this to start gaining prominence. Here’s to more museums following suit!
“Our museum tells the story of how Marc Brunel devised and created the first tunnel under a river anywhere in the world. It also laid the blueprint for all future tunnelling projects, including the Channel Tunnel which today is among the best low carbon way of travelling internationally from Britain. So it feels appropriate that we’re the first museum to sign up to this really important scheme. We’re so pleased to be able to support our employees to make more sustainable travel choices.”
The Brunel Museum is just one of many that have signed up to the scheme. Since launching, Climate Perks has seen over 60 organisations promise to give their employees at least two travel days. These include the likes of the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth, the ferry service Direct Ferries and the law firm Bates Wells.
Interested in getting your workplace onboard? Find out more and get in touch at www.climateperks.com.
https://www.wearepossible.org/latest-news/this-london-museum
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Climate perks: new scheme encouraging employers to give staff extra paid holiday days, to travel overland, not by plane
Travel habits may be starting to change, as climate awareness – and our sense of personal responsibility for it – are growing. A survey by Trainline indicated about two-thirds of Brits want to try to try to choose more sustainable options. But people still want to travel a lot, and a constraint is time time travelling overland takes – compared to air travel. A new initiative, the the 10:10 climate action campaign, called Climate Perks, is being launched, to encourage employers to help staff take lower carbon forms of transport for their holidays. That means giving them a few extra paid days holiday, on which to travel. This can empower staff to act on their values. In exchange, employers receive Climate Perks accreditation in recognition of their climate leadership. The carbon emissions from travelling by train or coach are far lower than those for the same trip by plane – they might be a quarter or a third of those by plane. Even a [non-gas-guzzler …!] car, with 4 people in it, has far lower CO2 emissions than those people all flying. And there are benefits of appreciating the distance travelled, and stopping off at places en route, to visit them too. The journey becomes a valuable part of the holiday.
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