Who We Work With

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We work with schools, local authorities, communities, residents and homeowners

Schools

We have extensive experience working with schools and their communities and engaging teachers, students, premises managers, parents and headteachers. Our projects have included biodiversity improvements, heat decarbonisation plans, engagement workshops, retrofit works and continued support for schools through the retrofit and decarbonisation process.

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Faith Organisations

RAFT have worked extensively with the Southwark Diocese Board of Education on school retrofit projects across their building portfolio, as well as with the Salisbury DBE.

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Local Authorities

We have worked with Lambeth, Lewisham on high level school estate decarbonisation plans. We also worked with Lambeth council on our premises manager engagement programme, which sought to share knowledge with and connect premises managers across the borough. We have also ran school engagement workshops in these two boroughs. RAFT are also in the early stages of a retrofit demonstrator project for Havering council, which will feature retrofit works, an exhibition and workshop programme to engage residents in the borough with retrofit.

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Cultural Organisations

RAFT have also started to work with cultural organisations such as the Horniman Museum on estate wide, and building specific decarbonisation plans.

National Organisations

In 2023 RAFT completed a whole life carbon study on school retrofit for the Department for Education, who we are continuing to work with on retrofit exemplar project across 5 schools in Leeds.

National Organisations

Department for Education, Church of England Education Office, Trade Union Congress

Councils & Responsible Bodies

London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Lewisham, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Barnet, London Borough of Hackney, London Borough of Havering, London Councils, Southwark Diocesan Board of Education, Portsmouth and Winchester Diocese, Canterbury Diocese, Salisbury Diocese, Greater London Authority

Schools & Community Buildings

Horniman Museum, Talbot Primary School, UCS School, St. Dunstan’s College, Myatt Garden Primary School, St. Winifred’s Primary School, Downderry Primary School, Dalmain Primary School, Torridon Primary School, Stillness Primary, Eliot Bank Primary, Brookfield Primary School, Ackland Burghley School, Salisbury Cathedral School, Rathfern Primary School, Impact Multi Academy Trust, Southwark Diocese Board of Education HQ, London Fields, Salisbury Diocesan Education Centre, Sydenham Library

Church of England Schools

Dulwich Village Infants, St Bede’s, St Saviour’s and St Olave’s, St Mark’s Kennington, St Matthew’s Merton, St Michael’s Wandsworth, St John’s Croydon, Boutcher Primary School, St Mary’s Lewisham, Peter Hills, St John’s and St Clement’s, Reigate Primary School, St Mary Magdalene, Alverstoke Primary School