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Heart of Worcestershire College has proudly emerged as the AoC Tier 2 winner in the 2025 Planet Earth Games, a national sustainability competition run in partnership with AoC Sport. This achievement highlights the college’s unwavering commitment to environmental action and student-led change.

Competing against institutions across the UK, HoW College embraced the Planet Earth Games by completing a wide range of challenges that blended sport, sustainability, health and wellbeing, social connectivity, conservation, and climate action.

From building bird boxes and designing sustainable products to sell to litter picking and reconnecting with nature, staff and students worked together to make a tangible difference.

Among the standout achievements was Matt Clements from the Sports department, who ranked second nationally on the individual leaderboard with an incredible 2,000 points. By embedding sustainability into his daily life in a fun and inclusive way with his success contributing to the Heart of Worcestershire College being crowned Tier 2 winners.

Peter Robinson, Vice Principal and Sustainability Lead shared his pride in the result:

“To be recognised as the most active FE college in our category, for sustainable activities in the country, is an honour and a source of great pride. This last academic year staff and students at the college have pulled together to hugely increase our activity in the Planet Earth Games.

We have all contributed to building bird boxes, exploring the benefit of time in the natural treasures of Worcestershire, getting active, creating sustainable products to sell or use as tools for learning and significantly, we have reduced our carbon emissions again, (for the 4th year running), by shutting down our equipment, whenever we can.

This award is testament to our cross-college culture and focus on sustainability as part of our Planet Mission in our College Strategy. Our students have continued to do more and more activities, showing greater interest every year and they regularly bring ideas to the college to do more. We will rise to that challenge as well.”