www.care4air.org Care4Air eZine Issue 4 Autumn 2004

What is Care4Air? Care4Air.org

Care4Air is a South wide campaign, aimed at wins award raising awareness of air quality issues in the region. You can help improve air quality by walking, cycling or using public transport instead of driving and being more energy efficient in the home.

BBC Weather Personality Paul Hudson presents Care4Air Awards! More inside! www.care4air.org home page

Sector magazine, Air Quality The Care4Air website features an air The Care4Air Management, gave the ‘Best Local quality news section, containing website, Authority Consortium Website’ award to information from across , www.care4air.org. and separate sections for businesses, www.care4air.org young people, green transport, health has beaten off Mark Daly of the Care4Air campaign and energy efficiency. said, “We’re delighted that Air Quality competition from It also contains information on the Management magazine has recognised Care4Air Awards, and downloadable video nearly 500 our website, as the best in its category. clips about the campaign, featuring specialist websites The website is one of the ways we hope environmental campaigner Bill Oddie to increase awareness of air quality to win a national issue in South Yorkshire. This award, and This winning website is designed and award. the increasing number of visitors to the managed by the multimedia team at site, demonstrates how well received the award winning agency diva creative. website has been.

“We will be building on the success of www.care4air.org, by constantly updating information, and developing new features.” 1 234 BBC Weather Personality Presents South Yorkshire Air Quality Awards

BBC weather presenter Paul Hudson visited on Tuesday 5th October, to present air quality awards at Doncaster Race Course.

Schools, businesses, communities and individuals from across the region, received Care4Air Awards, to recognise their work towards improving air quality in South Yorkshire....

The award winners from across South Yorkshire include;

Rabbit Recycling North Barnsley Ltd, are using zero emission vehicles to collect recyclable waste from the community.

Lakeside Village in Doncaster for their travelplan, Broom Valley School, Rotherham. which encourages employees to consider alternatives to the car. Community Primary School in Sheffield, because of it’s environmentally friendly building, Broom Valley Infant and Junior School in Rotherham, which features high levels of insulation and increased who run a walking bus service, which provides a safe use of daylight and ventilation. and reliable alternative to the car.

Rabbit Recycling, Barnsley.

Norfolk Community Primary School, Sheffield.

Mark Daly. from Care4Air, said: “The Care4Air Awards Event was a great opportunity to recognise schools, businesses, communities and individuals who have worked to improve air quality in South Yorkshire. I’m also delighted that Paul Hudson agreed Lakeside Village, Doncaster. to present the awards, and endorse the campaign.”

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WINNERS INCLUDE... The awards scheme has been launched across the South Yorkshire region to recognise people’s contribution to improving air quality. Awards fall into a number of • B&Q Travel Plans categories and are open to everyone in the South Yorkshire area.

• University of Sheffield Categories:

• Heeley City Farm • Regional • Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS • Businesses • Public Sector, NGO’s Foundation Trust and Health Sector • Green Line Oils Limited • Education Sector • Community Groups and • Norfolk Community Primary School Individuals • Transport Providers • Arnold Laver & Co Ltd • Individuals

• Norton Infant/Junior School Walking Bus If you are aware of any project, business or organisation who may • South Yorkshire Vehicle Emission Testing be eligible for a Care4Air Award - email: [email protected] • Winner of Doncaster Commuter Challenge

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Want to know more about what’s SHEFFIELD SCHOOLS GET ON THEIR happening with the Care4Air BIKES TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY campaign? contact Mark Daly on 0114 273 4655 or register to be Instructors have been visiting on our e-mail list - Sheffield schools to teach young [email protected] people about road safety, in a bid to encourage more people to use their bikes as an environmentally To find out how you can do your friendly mode of transport. bit to help the environment you can download a pdf from the The new scheme, being run by website below: specially trained instructors, is www.airquality.co.uk/archive/yourbit.pdf designed to give pupils the skills and confidence needed to ride their bikes on the road.

The course, which starts on the school playground, teaches basic skills such as control, weaving, U–turns and emergency stops. When pupils have mastered the basics, they’re taken onto local Useful roads, where they are taught to cope with traffic, parked cars and the Highway Code. Websites Care4Air are keen to promote cycling, as an alternative to the car, because vehicle emissions contribute to air pollution. The UK National Air Quality Information Archive: www.airquality.co.uk CARING FOR AIR GROWS ON TREES IN Air Partnership (Sheffield & Rotherham area) DONCASTER www.m1airaction.com Members of the environmental health team at Doncaster Sheffield City Council Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) have bought trees to plant in www.sheffield.gov.uk/ the grounds of a Doncaster School. environment/waste-and-pollution The team have worked out how many trees they need to plant, to Air Quality Management offset the environmental damage caused by their car journeys. www.air-quality-management.co.uk Sheffield City Centre They plan to plant seven trees, with the help of The South Yorkshire Clean Air Partnership Forest Partnership, in December. www.sheffieldairaction.com Rotherham Air Quality www.rotherham.gov.uk/graphics/ Environment/Air+Quality/ Care4Air Goes Global Current Air Quality Forecast Wish you were here... www.airquality.co.uk/archive/Current_ Some people are so excited Bulletin.php about the Care4Air campaign, Doncaster Air Quality that they want to shout about www.doncaster.gov.uk/Living_in_Doncaster/ it on holiday. Ian Kellett, Senior Environment/environmental_protection/ Pollution Control Officer at Pollution_control.asp Doncaster MBC, was even Barnsley Air Quality spotted wearing his Care4Air www.barnsley.gov.uk/service/ehealth/ t-shirt in Tenerife. pollutioncontrol.asp 1045

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