As a Community Development Manager at Solar Options for Schools Ltd, I apply my passions for education, activism, and connecting people for a cause to the renewable energy and climate education sectors. I am responsible for our Social Impact strategy and developing a volunteering programme for the organisation’s educational delivery. I also co-create educational resources and workshops on the benefits of clean energy, as well as plan and deliver engaging events and activities that raise awareness and inspire action among students, teachers, parents, and local communities.If you’re a teacher looking for ways to engage your students in climate action, or if you’re interested in becoming a volunteer Solar Ambassador or freelance educator for Solar for Schools, please drop us a line: education@solarforschools.co.uk. I have over 10 years’ experience in education, social and environmental activism, and project leadership and I am using my expertise to help grow the fledgling Good Work Cooperative whose mission it is to enable freelancers whose work is for social or environmental benefit to have more impact by sharing each others’ gifts and talents. We aim to create communities of self-help to engage, collaborate, and take action in our key areas of expertise: wellbeing, sustainable energy, and access. Through the Good Work Coop, I co-manage Birmingham Green Doors, an initiative that showcases energy efficient homes and green solutions. If you’re a freelancer or funder and would like to know more, please email me: Danielle@chiunlimited.org.My personal brand, CHI Unlimited, brings together abundant Creativity, Hope and Innovation to address the intersecting challenges of social inequality, climate change, and the green skills shortage. I want to help young people otherwise hidden to green industries to gain experience from and exposure to the top-level leaders, career pathways, and skill requirements within the many sectors that comprise these emergent fields of employment. In 2022, I founded EnerCHI, a festival of ideas that uses art to bridge the gap between green STEM and grassroots community action.