Air Quality campaign for businesses

• Clean Air Day
• #EnginesOff! Campaign
• Healthy Streets Everyday
• Clean Air Villages - Phase 3

Clean Air Day

Clean Air Day is the UK’s largest air pollution campaign. It encourages everyone to take action to help reduce air pollution and usually involves hundreds of events around the country including many in our borough.

Clean Air Day - Thursday 15 June 2023

This year's theme is ‘Clean up our air to look after your mind this #CleanAirDay'. The campaign focuses on the fact that cleaning up our air is good for us in many ways. Clean air not only benefits our physical health and the environment but can also protect our mental and brain health. 

See how air pollution impacts every organ in the body (pdf, 423 KB).

We encourage all businesses to take action for Clean Air Day or at any other time. Here are some ways to do that:

• Get information about why you should be concerned about clean air, how businesses contribute to air pollution and air pollution in the workplace, along with ideas about how to take action to improve local air pollution
• Join Business for Clean Air to reduce your contributions and improve your green credentials
  • Collaborating with your suppliers to reduce local air pollution (pdf, 323 KB)
  • Do a quick and simple air pollution mapping exercise (pdf, 198 KB) to help identify the actions your business can take to address its impact on air quality
• Encouraging your staff to take our Clean Air Challenge to create cleaner air in our borough
• Spread the word to your employees, volunteers and suppliers using social media and/or a newsletter article to:
  • Raise their awareness about air pollution (pdf, 108 KB)
  • Advertise the low pollution route finder to help reduce personal exposure whilst walking and cycling to work and for leisure

Find out more information about what is being done in the borough for Clean Air Day.

#EnginesOff! Campaign

As part of the Idling Action project, we ask local businesses to join the #EnginesOff campaign which includes a driver training video with information and tips on how use your vehicles more efficiently and help reduce local air pollution. We also encourage businesses to sign our engine idling pledge to help eliminate engine idling in our borough.

View Air Quality for Businesses for more information about this campaign and other projects that businesses can get involved in.

Healthy Streets Everyday

The Healthy Streets Everyday campaign helps encourage small behaviour changes every day through the promotion of walking and cycling and has adapted in 2020 to include school streets, cycle training, and the online promotion of Car Free Day and Clean Air Day. This is a Cross River Partnership led project.

Clean Air Villages - Phase 3

The Clean Air Villages campaign helps to promote long term behaviour change by supporting local businesses in areas of high pollution to reduce their own impact on local air quality, particularly around deliveries. This is a Cross River Partnership led project.

View Air Quality for Businesses for more information about Clean Air Villages.