Sustainability

Jewry Wall Museum is part of Leicester City Council’s, Leicester Museums & Galleries team, and together we are working to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in Leicester and are committed to working towards being carbon neutral by 2030.

We are also committed to buying goods and services responsibly, to maximise social, environmental and financial value, and seek to source our ingredients locally where possible and seasonally where appropriate.

We are constantly making efforts to reduce our food waste, with a low-food waste menu and by planning our food preparations and deliveries efficiently.

We encourage the reduction of the use of disposable plastic bottles, and our visitors can refill their bottle inside, just ask at the café counter.

For more information visit our Social Value Procurement pages or you can read the National Procurement Policy we follow here.

We strive to continually improve the buildings sustainability, all our exhibition projectors are low energy LED and laser systems. All our interior lighting is low energy LED systems and all our interior and exterior lighting runs on low energy efficient and timer systems.

We have low water usage cisterns and automated-taps fitted in many of our public toilets to reduce water use.

We recycle all of our suitable waste and try to operate as a paperless office, when we do need paper we use 100% recycled paper. Our ticketing system is available as an e-ticket to help further reduce the production of paper waste.

For more information visit our Environment and Sustainability pages or you can read our Environmental Policy here.