This month: 

• Green Leader Q&A with Ella Norwich, Sustainability Coordinator for Green Man Festival 
• Tickets Launched for 'pivotal' Sustainable Event Summit 2025: Reserve your place!
• Green Events Code of Practice 2025: Expression of interest open for Local Authorities to join 2nd program
• Festival Industry Materials and Waste Briefing update and blog with Livvy Drake. 
• Julie's Bicycle launch Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac
• EarthFest: 
• An overview of upcoming events and news from across the industry. 

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Ella Norwich is Sustainability Coordinator for Green Man Festival. Her work spans many areas, including: reducing emissions, improving procurement and coordinating sustainability assessments. Alongside this, Ella is also part of the Sustainable Futures Team at We The Curious, Bristol’s science centre. Her approach to sustainability is rooted in data and action but equally shaped by her belief that shared joy and connection are powerful tools to inspire positive change. Read her answers to our 20 Event Industry Green Leader Questions: HERE.

Waste and littering is always an emotive topic and the never-ending stream of materials being produced requires local authorities, organisations and events to manage them. In 2025, waste policy changes are being implemented to address these which will affect how festivals manage their waste for the better. In this guest blog,  Environmental Sustainability Consultant, Livvy Drake shares an overview of the changes and introduces the new briefing HERE.

Tickets are now available for the Sustainable Events Summit 2025. Celebrating a decade at the Showman's Show, the event will focus and build on the Show Must Go #3 - Climate Transition Plan for the Outdoor Events Industry,  bringing decision-makers together in roundtables and discussion to co-create action-able strategies and priorities for government.

The morning session is restricted to leading industry decision-makers and experts, and applications will be reviewed. The afternoon is open to all. Program details will be released June onward.

Tickets here* (pay what you can) >> http://tikt.link/SES2025

*Contact bethan@visionsustainableevents.org for an access code for morning roundtable tickets (closed event).
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Vision for Sustainable Events and Julie's Bicycle are running a second national program supporting local authorities (LAs) to introduce environmental assessment of events using the Green Events Code of Practice (GECoP) following the successful pilot program with 10 LAs in 2024.

A maximum of 30 local authorities can sign up to join the 12-month program in 2025. Participants will be part of a groundbreaking national roll-out of the Green Events Code of Practice, and receive specialist support and resources to update policy and integrate environmental reporting into practices and processes. To express interest, fill out the survey form by 30th May HERE.

Earthfest, June 5-8, London, features four days of inspiring talks, live music, solutions and workshops.

This year, Vision for Sustainable Events' Richard Phillips and Christopher Johnson will present a fireside chat to introduce the Green Events Code of Practice: Unlocking sector change with common language and tools. They will both join The Future of Live: Festivals & Venues panel. Check out the full program and book tickets HERE (the event is for industry professionals only).

Julie’s Bicycle has launched a seasonal almanac for artists, creatives, and community practitioners. Co-created with freelancers, the almanac gathers useful resources from existing toolkits, alongside templates, wellbeing practices, artist case studies, and book recommendations, weaving them into a seasonal approach for sustainable change with justice for the environment, land, and people at the forefront.

Download the almanac HERE.

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:

• ‘Everything we built – gone’: how the wildfires decimated LA’s music scene, by Greg Cochrane for The Guardian HERE
• Coachella, Coldplay & Glastonbury: Can Festivals Go Green? In Sustainability Magazine HERE
• Cultura Circular in Conversation: Episode 3 explores how traditional knowledge informs climate action through festivals with Marvin George (GROUNDWORK, Jamaica) and Keron Niles (Welcome to Freetown, Trinidad & Tobago) HERE.
• Bucks New Uni launches degree in event and festival sustainability management HERE. 

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