Our Work:

• Our Noise Pollution Work
• Environmental Noise
• Neighbourhood noise
  • Policy
  • Neighbourhood Noise Committee
  • Neighbourhood Noise Nuisance
  • Noise Action Week
  • Noise and health
  • Small Wind Turbines
  • Fireworks

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Noise Action Week is an annual initiative coordinated by Environmental Protection UK (formerly NSCA), that aims to raise awareness of the problems caused by neighbour noise and the solutions available to tackle it. It provides an opportunity for local authorities, housing providers, mediation services and all those involved in neighbour noise management to raise awareness of services available and promote practical solutions.

NAW 2009 will take place 18 - 22 May

Noise Action Week aims to:

• Promote practical solutions to everyday noise problems
• Promote communication and consideration between neighbours
• Encourage local authorities and mediation services to inform the public of services available
• Educate and inform noise makers and noise sufferers about noise reduction
• Encourage everyone to take a quiet moment to consider the noises they make and the noise that affects them - and what can be done to reduce the impact

Resources

Every year as part of Noise Action Week, we produce a range of materials to help those running campaigns, all of which are available to download at www.noiseactionweek.org.uk

• Surveys - we carry out surveys looking at attitudes to noise
• How to Guide - provides advice on managing successful activities and examples of activities that you can carry out, in order to raise awareness of noise issues.
• A4 Promotional Flier
• Decibel Chart and Fact Sheet - providing interesting and useful facts and figures about noise, and a decibel chart demonstrating relative decibel levels of common noises.
• NAW Logo to use on your own materials
• School activity ideas
• Fundraising activity ideas - including a sponsorship form and quizzes
• Variety of cartoons and activity sheets for schools
• A pro forma press release to help local co-ordinatorspromote their activities
• Details of some of previous activities, along with pictures

There are also materials available from our Online Shop:

• Information Leaflets - including Neighbourhood Noise, Noise Pollution, Fireworks
• Pens
• Fridge Magnets
• Bookmarks
• Stickers
• Teaching packs - "Hear this!" (for junior school) and "Sounding Off" (for secondary schools)
• Posters - Muffle that Music, Don't Alarm Your Neighbours, We all Cause Neighbour Noise, Noise Decibels, Banish Barking!
• Free DVD "A Short Film About Noise" - free with every order whilst stocks last
• Promotional flier
• Sound Advice cards

Resources can be ordered by using our Noise Action Week order form or via our Online Shop.

Promotion

At national level we:

• Carry out surveys every year to gauge current public attitudes to noise. See our National Noise Survey2008 report.
• Carry out promotional work - working with national, regional and local press to raise awareness of noise issues and local activities happening throughout the UK.
• Run an online competition - in 2008 the competition prize wasa quiet dishwasher, sponsored by AEG-Electrolux.
• In 2008 we worked in partnership with Walk to School Week.

Find out about reducing noise at home www.quieterhomes.org

Find out more!

Visit www.noiseactionweek.org.uk call 01273 878770 or email us