The RAAC scandal that broke a year ago affected hundreds of schools across the UK, damaging the education of thousands of children and young people. For many, the scandal served to highlight the extent to which school buildings are unsustainable, as well as unsafe and falling apart. 

Teach the Future is a student-led campaign to urgently improve education on the climate crisis in the UK. Fund the Future is our newest campaign, calling for the UK government to significantly increase funding for the retrofitting and rebuilding of school buildings, to help them become more environmentally sustainable. As well as helping the country to reach net-zero targets, eco-friendly retrofitting is vital for ensuring that students have a safe learning environment, while helping schools cut high energy costs, and allowing young people to see and learn about sustainable architecture first-hand.

Our report, released in September 2023, estimates that it will cost £16.3bn to retrofit all UK schools to net-zero emissions.  We are calling on the government to step up and deliver the funding we need to save education.

But we can’t do it alone.

• We need UK school staff and pupils to send in photos of crumbling and inefficient school buildings, to show the government the effects of underfunding.

• To be in with a chance of winning a £50 National Book Token, send us pictures of the unsafe and damaged areas of your school by emailing hello@teachthefuture.uk or completing our anonymous form.