This month:

• Green Leader Q&A with Dawn Wood, Co-director of Between The Trees Festival. 
• Guest blog by Pearce Hire on powering Big Church Festival with GeoPura's Green Hydrogen. 
• Vision for Sustainable Events announced as a finalist for the Live Green Award 2025. 
• Resource Spotlight: The latest Festival & Outdoor Event Guide, published by Event Industry News, is live.
• Event Industry Forum x Power of Events Survey: have your say on the value of the events industry.
• Julie's Bicycle resource: Communicating Your Climate Action Guide
• An overview of upcoming events and news from across the industry.

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Dawn Wood is Co-director of Between The Trees, a festival and events company she co-founded in 2018 to address the shrinking platform for live, original modern and traditional folk music, as well as growing challenges around wellbeing and disconnection from nature among students and pupils. From these needs, Between The Trees Festival was created to reconnect people through music, creativity, and the natural world. Read her answers to our 20 Event Industry Green Leader questions HERE>>

Last month, we spoke with Clare Goodchild, Event Operations Manager & Director of We Organise Chaos. Read her answers HERE>>

Steve Hicks, Technical Project Manager at award-winning temporary power company, Pearce Hire, shares key insights from the successful integration of green hydrogen power at Big Church Festival in partnership with GeoPura.

As the festival's trusted power partner since 2009, Pearce Hire has consistently championed efficiency and emissions reduction through the use of HVO fuel, battery storage, and advanced monitoring. In 2024, they took the next step towards zero-emission energy by partnering with GeoPura. This vision became a reality, with green hydrogen power successfully integrated in 2024 and expanded in 2025, setting a new benchmark for sustainable large-scale live events. Read the full case study HERE>>

Vision for Sustainable Events is delighted to be a finalist in the prestigious LIVE Green Award for 2025. We are in good company, with other finalists: Green Gathering, Big Green Coach, LS Events, DF Concerts & Events, Grid Faeries, LIDO Festival and Eat to the Beat.

The LIVE Awards showcases the outstanding companies, teams and individuals that make up the live events industry to celebrate achievements within the sector. This year, the Awards will take place on Wednesday 10th December, at the Troxy, London. View all categories and finalists, and get your tickets HERE>>  

The new Festival & Outdoor Event Guide, published by Event Industry News, is live; refreshed, redesigned, and with event sustainability woven throughout, including:

✅ 'Planning for Weather Extremes' by Kizzy Allott, which addresses the impact of climate change on events and the growing need for climate adaptation.
✅ An interview about Grid Faeries x Ecotricity clean battery provision for events, with festival power expert Claire O'Neill.
✅ A spotlight on Vision for Sustainable Events, our mission, partners and current projects - including an update on the Green Events Code of Practice, as this national framework for assessing event sustainability embarks on a second national program with 30 local authorities.
✅ An article with Jordan Kaye at Analog Events on embedding sustainability into event delivery.

Plus lots more articles and insights from across the industry - read more and get a copy HERE>> 

EIF/Purple Guide have funded the Power of Events to conduct a major piece of research into the socioeconomic impact of the outdoor events industry.

The facts, figures and information gathered will form a basis for the next 3-5 years to demonstrate to authorities, both local and national, the value of the outdoor events industry. Suppliers can take the survey HERE>> Event organisers go HERE>>.

Julie's Bicycle's new Communicating Your Climate Action guide offers practical tips and inspiration for cultural organisations and creatives to share their climate stories with confidence.

The guide explores why communication is one of the most powerful climate actions we can take — helping to normalise change, inspire audiences, and connect communities around shared purpose. Download the Guide HERE>> 

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Our selected news picks from across the Live Events Industry and beyond, including jobs, events, blogs, reports, and what the Vision team has been watching, listening to, and reading this month:

• Bristol to launch world-first ‘clean power hub’ for festivals and film crews, in the Guardian HERE>>
• Julie's Bicycle is hiring!  Roles include: New Board members, Programme Manager, Training Facilitator, and Finance Manager HERE>> 
• Way Out West’s Filip Hiltmann on making major festivals sustainable, in Festival Insights HERE>>
• Stufish, a set design company for major touring artists, embraces bamboo for lower carbon stages, in Access All Areas HERE>>

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