RAFT Joins Mayor’s Green Schools Pilot
April 2025: RAFT has been selected as a strategic decarbonisation partner for the Mayor of London’s Greener Schools Pilot, a groundbreaking initiative helping schools take decisive action to cut energy waste, reduce carbon emissions, and create healthier learning environments.
The Greener Schools Pilot is a major step forward in making both London’s schools and young Londoners a driving force in tackling the climate crisis. By working with the GLA, local authorities and schools, we can turn ambition into action—supporting schools to lower emissions, save money, and create better places to learn.
RAFT Wins £100K Ashden Grant
May 2024: RAFT are delighted to have been selected by Ashden Let’s Go Zero 2030, as one of five incredible projects to receive £100k grants. Our new platform will integrate our deep retrofit experience within an accessible, easy-to-use, scalable tool empowering schools and school-estates toward practical, outcome-led action.
Mar 2024: RAFT founder and managing director Harry Paticas spoke about RAFT's school decarbonisation projects and community engagement programmes at Futurebuild 2024 alongside Duncan Baker-Brown and Rachael Owens. We were excited to attend insightful talks & workshops by the Architects Climate Action Network and connect with groups at the forefront of retrofit upscaling such as the National Retrofit Hub.
Futurebuild 2024
Sep 2023: Meylan & Matthew presented RAFT’s more recent work at Retrofit Reimagined 2023, hosted by Civic Square at the Building Centre in London.
Passivhaus Trust Awards
July 2023: We were delighted to be awarded the UK Passivhaus Award 2023 in the Residential Retrofit Category for our Bowman’s Lea EnerPHit retrofit project in Lewisham.
Jan 2023: We were excited to be shortlisted for the 2023 MacEwen awards for our Lewisham Zero Carbon Schools Projects, which was recognised for serving environmental and education agendas by the judges.
Sep 2022: RAFT featured in the article ‘National Emergency Retrofit Response’ Needed For UK Schools’, in response to the urgent need to help heat schools, as a result of historical underfunding and recent increases in energy costs. Harry joined the Advisory board of Let’s Go Zero in November 2023.
Jan 2023: RAFT featured in the advice section for schools on the National Education Union website. The webpage is a brilliant resource for schools to enable them to understand and start the retrofitting process.
Aug 2022: Nidhi spoke at the retrofit reimagined festival in Birmingham. She shared her knowledge and experience with local communities and schools to combat climate change and deliver low energy buildings.
AJ Climate Champions
Mar 2021: Harry talked to Hattie Hartman about setting up RAFT and the role of involving children and communities in the retrofit process.
Feb 2021: RAFT won both the judges and the people’s prize for the Alliance for Sustainable Building Projects in 2021 in recognition of RAFT’s work retrofitting schools.
