Sustainable Sainji
The Sustainable Sainji Programme is led by Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute. Like all International Community Experience (ICE) programmes, students, staff and ARU alumni are eligible to take part.
Applications for the 2026 programme are now open and will close at 5pm on 17 October 2025.
Read more about Sustainable Sainji and how you can get involved.
For application forms please see below.
Key information
Trip dates
27 March – 11 April 2026.
Briefing meetings
Three meetings, dates to be confirmed.
You must attend all these to be part of the trip.
Notes
- You will also need to budget for any immunisations which are not free on the NHS (costs vary), and for a visa (around £20).
- You will be expected to attend three team meetings before we leave, to discuss what we will be doing in Sainji.
- Your passport must be valid for six months after the return date of the trip.
How to apply
If you would like to apply to be involved in Sustainable Sainji, please complete all of the forms below.
- Sustainable Sainji Application Form
- Volunteer Agreement
- Health Questionnaire
- Sustainable Sainji Tutor Form
You will also need to read our terms and conditions.
Read more about what we've done to help
Sustainable Sainji Project Report 2024
Sustainable Sainji project report 2019
Sustainable Sainji project report 2018
Sustainable Sainji project report 2017
Sustainable Sainji project report 2016
Sustainable Sainji in the news
Team VC Awards for Excellent Education Collaborative Activities 2023-24
Award citation:
The Sustainable Sainji programme is a powerful example of how universities can be a force for good. Sustainable Sainji is about benefitting communities, both at ARU and in India. This project is unique in that through collaboration with community leaders, it matches volunteers' discipline-specific skills and knowledge with the community's development priorities. It also directly addresses several of the Global Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrates clearly ARU's values of courage, ambition and innovation.
This is not a one-off event, but a programme now in its sixth year, which has evolved and grown. At its core, the programme has inclusivity at its heart, ensuring at all students can apply - regardless of income.
In 2017, the Sustainable Sainji project was a finalist in the Green Gown Awards.
We were also a best practice case study (see page 10) in the publication Educating for Sustainability, published by the ISCN for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
