The Light has joined forces with Meanwood Valley Urban Farm to help raise money for the care and feeding of the animals at the farm. The Light plans to launch an environmentally friendly shopping bag, which will be available for purchase throughout the centre at the end of August 2008, with all sales proceeds going directly to the farm.

The new partnership with the farm is part of The Light’s new environmental initiative for 2008. The initiative also incorporates a series of measures to help reduce the centre’s carbon footprint. In the last seven months alone the centre has proudly recycled three hundred and fifty two tonnes of waste, accounting for 86% of recyclable waste. This is the equivalent of 44 double-decker London buses.

Other green practices now employed by the centre include; producing all promotional material on 100% recycled paper and reducing the size and weight of its tri-annual centre magazine: Light Style, saving an outstanding 12,825kilograms of paper a year. The Light has worked out that if you were to lay down each page of the magazine that has been removed it would stretch almost 300 miles in distance. This is the same as travelling from Leeds to Penzance.

In an effort to try and identify other ways in which the centre can further reduce its carbon foot print and improve energy efficiency The Light has called upon the help of the Carbon Trust.