Green Careers

Green Careers Week 2024

Join Us for Green Careers Week in Bristol!

Are you passionate about sustainability and shaping the future of green careers? As part of Green Careers Week next month, we invite you to join us in Bristol on November 6th at the Triodos Foundation for a dynamic and engaging day that promises to inspire and connect changemakers across sectors. This is your opportunity to: ➡️ Take part in thought-provoking talks and discussions led by young people, businesses, and education leaders, addressing critical topics such as green skills, the evolving…

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Vattenfall work placements

What is a work placement like?

What is it like to embark on a summer work placement with Vattenfall, one of Europe’s leading energy companies, committed to a fossil-free future? This year, four bright individuals—Annika, Onome, Neelima, and Sophie—spent their summers working at Vattenfall’s UK offices in Edinburgh, London, and Bristol. These placements offered a rich blend of hands-on experience, professional development, and an opportunity to contribute to sustainability-focused projects. Here’s a look at what each of them experienced and learned during their time at Vattenfall.…

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Who are our new Mentors?

We meet two of our brilliant new mentors as we kick off our 2024 programme. Many of our mentors have been with us for a few years or more now. However, we are delighted to be joined by many new ones this year too. Women who are working in sustainability who want to ‘give back’ and have much experience and knowledge to share. Steph Housty and Eirini Metaxotou are two of our new sustainability mentors who have shared their stories…

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Catalyst Summit 2024 Highlights

How do you help nurture a change-maker’s inner journey? What inspiration, tools, and knowledge do they most need? Thank you so much to everyone who showed up at our Catalyst Summit 2024 to help us explore and understand this.  We are so grateful for the contributions of experienced changemakers such as Manuella Cantalice and Bianca Pitt, She Changes Climate & Rhian Sherrington FRSA, Founder / Head Coach Women in Sustainability Network, who are already impacting the global stage. Our catalysts…

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Your Top 10 Green Career Questions Answered

Your Top 10 Questions About Green and Sustainability Careers You are here because you are eager to pursue a career working in sustainability or at least learn more about it first. However, breaking into the climate or social impact space can seem daunting without the right guidance and advice. Here, we address some of the top questions young changemakers ask about breaking into sustainability and low-carbon jobs and careers. 1. How Do I Get Work Experience in Sustainability? Getting into…

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Our Impact in 2023

Our Impact in 2023

What impact did we have last year? We have just launched our impact report and are sharing a few facts and stats from it here. ➡️We worked directly with 200 catalysts.➡️We ran and took part in 20 events. ➡️76 catalysts attended our Catalyst Summit.➡️62 went on to be mentored by a woman working in sustainability. ➡️ The top 3 benefits from the programme were; Understanding Career & Education Options Skills & Knowledge Confidence. ➡️2 catalysts went on to a work…

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We’re taking bookings for our 2024 Green Career workshops! 

Would your students or team benefit from a Green Career workshop? Catalyse Change CIC has been running transformative sustainability empowerment and green career workshops for young women and non-binary changemakers for over 8 years. We are delighted to be able to offer our most popular workshops more widely, to a range of age groups and genders, both online and in-person. Our core offerings are listed below, they can be adapted to ensure they are right for your community, budget, and…

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Vattenfall Work Placements

Vattenfall is proud to support Catalyse Change, a non-profit organisation with an ambition to inspire, empower and upskill young women as sustainability leaders and changemakers toward a greener society. After Sonya’s address at the Catalyse Change CIC Summit 2023, two interns chose to complete work experience at Vattenfall Heat UK. Here is what they had to say about their experience. What are the main highlights from your work experience at Vattenfall? Working at Vattenfall for these past few weeks has…

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© Catalyse Change 2024.

Catalyse Change CIC is a social enterprise working to inspire and empower young women for happy, healthy & green careers, communities, and the planet. The directors, Board, and mentors are all women working in sustainability, with a combined wide skill set and expertise, supported by an extensive network of other sustainability professionals who provide expertise and mentoring.

*We use an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female” and welcome trans women, genderqueer women & non-binary people.

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