In this month's Vision: 2025 newsletter: 

• Industry Green Leader Q&A with Hannah Cox, Director at Sustainability Consultancy Betternotstop.
• Vision: 2025 Blog: Festival Sustainability Trends for 2024.
• Green Events Code of Practice Pilot launched
• Vision: 2025 & Julie's Bicycle to launch a Sustainable Materials & Waste Management Toolkit for Festivals at AIF Congress 
• Powerful Thinking Blog: The Future of Solar Powered Flight
• Launch Event Webinar: Engaging Audiences on Climate Change Through Travel Campaigns
• Resource Spotlight: Sustainable Event Summit #SES23 catch up: Keynote with EarthPercent's Cathy Runciman. 
• Future Festival Tools Case Study: Climax Festival, France 
• Fusion Festivals Case Study: Cruïlla Festival, Spain
• Selected news, jobs, events, and comments from across the live events industry and beyond.

Get in touch with your questions and suggestions at info@vision2025.org.uk

Hannah runs betternotstop, a sustainable impact agency in Manchester. Their 'More Than Music' report, offers event frameworks for sustainability in music festivals, evidenced by their work at Kendal Calling where 98.07% of tents were taken home by attendees. As a B Corp Certified company, they also run the consistently sold out Better Business Summit every January.

Hannah shares her journey in sustainable events in our monthly Q&A and shares some hot-off-the-press news about championing nature through her work: Read Hannah's Q&A here

In December, we spoke to Aileen Ging @ Wild Rumpus, read Aileen's answers. 

For this this blog, we hear from industry leaders about what trends they expect, and what to look out for in 2024: from food carbon labelling to a focus on biodiversity, and the impact of the revised ISO20121...  Plus, a preview of the resources and tools that are coming online from across the industry to support events this year AND our top five our top 5 actions to take at your festival this coming season. Read the blog here. 

Vision: 2025 will join The Association of Independent Festival's Congress (AIF) on 1 Feb 2024 at Bristol Beacon to provide an update on festival sustainability trends in 2024, including the launch of the new Sustainable Materials & Waste Management Toolkit created in collaboration with Julie's Bicycle.

The Toolkit is the latest resource created for the Towards Zero Waste Festival Project, run by Vision: 2025 and Julie's Bicycle, and funded by the Dixon Foundation. AIF Congress delegates can watch the launch on the main stage and join a workshop for a practical demo. Get your AIF Congress Tickets. 

If you can't make it to Congress, Vision: 2025 and Julie's Bicycle will share the Toolkit again in a webinar, 7 Feb, 14:00-15:00. Sign up here. 

Vision: 2025 and Julie’s Bicycle have launched a 12-month pilot with ten local authorities including Manchester, Bristol and Reading, to test how the Green Events Code of Practice (GECOP) can be used to embed sustainability within local authority processes.

GECOP has been developed as a collaboration between the outdoor events industry, local authorities and other stakeholders, to create a clear and consistent understanding and approach to sustainable best practice for the sector. The project is co-funded by Arts Council England and participating local authorities. Read more about GECOP and the pilot launch on the Vision: 2025 website. 
Pictured:The GECOP, Pilot Meeting, Birmingham, 11 Jan 2023 

Sign up for the online launch event on Thursday 25th January 2024, 1pm GMT, where case studies for communicating more effectively with audiences on sustainable travel choices, and leveraging the cultural influence of events to create wider change are presented by the project's research team and partners from Team Love, Bristol Beacon, Boomtown and Anjunabeats/Involved Group. 
Photo credit: Love Saves The Day's 'Love Bus'

Vision: 2025's Sustainable Events Summit 2023 sessions are available to watch on catch up. We kick off by sharing the keynote from Cathy Runciman, Executive Director of charity EarthPercent UK, who shares a vision for sustainable and planet-positive events: the why, the what and the how of actions and advocacy needed for the sector's future. Watch the keynote on the Event Vision: 2025 YouTube Channel. 

Each month we feature a case study from the FUSION – Festivals as Social Innovation Incubators project:

This month we turn the spotlight on Cruïlla (Spain, 50,000 capacity), one of three major international music festivals in Barcelona. Cruïlla offers a diverse range of acts, from world-famous artists to the best Catalan and Spanish acts. Besides music, Cruïlla hosts social NGOs and cultural associations organising different activities that festival-goers participate in to learn more about what the NGOs flight for - not just at the festival but all year round through their outreach projects: Find out more on the Fusion website. 

Climax Festival (France, capacity 5,000) takes place in Bordeaux in the Darwin Ecosystem, a rehabilitated wasteland of former military barracks. In this case study, learn how they have reduced residual waste by strictly separating material flows resulting in 87% of the waste created during the 2021 edition being recycled. Read the case sutdy on the Future Festival Tools website. 
Photo: Climax Festival by Benjamin Pavone

Vision 2025’s Sustainable Event Summit, October 18th, 2023, brought over 250 event professionals together to discuss festival sustainability and climate action in the sector.

Vision: 2025 invited students from boomsatsuma, a Bristol-based specialised education provider for the creative industries, to fulfil a commercial brief and capture the day, supporting their mission to 'close the gap between eductaion and the creative industries.' Two Film and TV college students from boomsatsuma have created videos of the panel sessions, which will be released over the coming weeks on Vision: 2025's YouTube Channel. 

Our selected news picks from across the Live Events Industry and beyond, including jobs, events, blogs, reports, and what the Vision: 2025 team has been watching, listening to, and reading this month:

• Carbon labelling information on menus introduced to sporting events by Freemans Event Partners and Klimato HERE.
   
• Personalisation, Sustainability, and Immersive Tech are key Event Tech Trends for 2024 according to Strata Insights, in Event Industry News HERE.
   
• UK Music Launches Diversity Survey, in Access All Areas HERE. 
   
• The Sustainable Event Buyer’s Guide (edition four) will launch, 6th March at BMA House HERE.
   
• A Greener Future reveal its ‘World’s Greenest Festivals’ list HERE.
   
• Kendal Calling playing the Waste Game Within Tent City HERE. 

Event Industry dates for your diary: 

• ecolibrium Community Gathering, 31st January, 17:00-19:00, Artists Residence, Bristol 
• AIF Congress: 1st Feb 2024, at The Bristol Beacon
• AFO Conference: Join Vision: 2025 and Powerful Thinking sessions - along with brilliant speakers and insight from across the industry, 10th Feb 2024.
• A Greener Future's Green Events and Innovations Conference #GEI16, 27th Feb at The Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
• Event Production Show: 28-29 Feb, with a Vision: 2025 partner panel, 'Reasons to be cheerful – sustainable steps forward,' 28 Feb, 15.20-16.00.

Our newsletter reaches over 4,200 UK event professionals interested in sustainability. Send jobs, events, resources and articles to feature here to: info@vision2025.org.uk.