Vision: 2025's June newsletter launches free registration for the 9th edition Sustainable Event Summit at The Showman's Show - book your spot for #SES24! There's an update on the Green Events Code of Practice for events, with 60 festivals involved in a pilot this season. We continue our industry call to support and fund the third edition of the Show Must Go On report in 2025 with an industry crowdfunder. Plus resources and news from across the industry. Contact bethan@vision2025.org.uk for newsletter ideas, stories and queries.

Register your place for Vision: 2025's 9th edition of the Sustainable Events Summit, at The Showman's Show on Wednesday 23rd October 2024.

This free-to-attend summit will bring outdoor event organisers, festival professionals, suppliers, local authorities and sustainability experts together, to reflect on the summer, defining future strategies and actions to shape the industry response to the climate emergency for UK events.

Headline sponsors are The Showman’s Show, LS Events, Festival Republic, MTD Water and Evolution Domes. Eat To The Beat will be providing the members lunch, with Production AV, a d&b solutions company, providing the technical production elements.

#SES24 kicks off with a Vision: 2025 member-only exclusive roundtable session and lunch from 10.30-13:00. Members can check inboxes for your ticket unlock code or email. General admittance tickets are for the afternoon programme,13:00-17:00, with optional donations to help cover the cost of this free-to-access event.

REGISTER FOR #SES24 TICKETS

To be pioneering in our response to the climate crisis, as an industry we need a clear vision, benchmarks to understand progress, practical clear solutions, and support from beyond our sector, particularly government.

Over the next nine months, Vision: 2025 is bringing the industry together to produce the third edition 'State of the Industry' report, a vision for beyond 2025, which will help build a case for government support. We need everyone to take part.

You can help fund the report through a range of other sponsorship packages including headline and chapter supporters: https://bit.ly/SMGO-3

An update on the Green Events Code of Practice (GECoP): Julie's Bicycle, host of Event Vision: 2025, is collaborating with 10 local authorities and more than 60 festivals this event season to test how the Green Events Code of Practice (GECoP) can be adopted nationally.

In December 2024, following the pilot, a report will be published on the variety of ways the code has been put into practice along with an outline for a pathway to national adoption. Find out which councils and events are involved and about project plans for 2024 and beyond. Read the full news HERE. 

Tanya is the Co-Creative Director of Festival of Thrift & has worked in the performing arts sector for over 20 years. Since 2012, Festival of Thrift has led the national festival of sustainable living, attracting up to 30,000 – 50,000 people each year.

Festival of Thrift is transitioning into a vibrant and multi-faceted arts & sustainability organisation with a year-round programme of projects & events that impact positively on people’s lives. Sustainability is front and centre of Festival of Thrift's programme and in this Q&A Tanya shares her personal and professional journey in sustainable events. HERE

In May we spoke to Anaïs Biaux, Head of Festival Networks at Without Walls. Read her answers HERE. 

The rise in disposable vapes is the thorn in the side of effective festival waste management and circular economy initiatives. It's the latest sustainability challenge to crop up as part of the ongoing single-use plastic saga. In this guest blog, Rowan Barnes, Projects Coordinator at Material Focus, shares insights into the problems and what event organisers can do to tackle them. There is also an opportunity for event organisers to access funding to trial vape bins. Read Rowan's insights HERE.

Material Focus has produced the 'Vapes and Electricals Briefing for Festivals and Events' (June 2024) See below for details and to download the report.

Following the Material Focus blog on Vapes and Electricals by project manager, Rowan Barnes, download the report from the Vision: 2025 Resource Hub to get the full intel on e-waste: why it's relevant to festivals, event-related vape facts and figures, what best practice looks like as a festival organiser in terms of dealing with waste contractors, audience awareness, and e-waste bins onsite, plus how to access funding. Download the report HERE. 

Sustainable-impact agency betternotstop, has published the latest edition of its ‘More Than Music’ report into music festivals and sustainability. Of the 100 festivals featured in the 2024 report:

• 46% have a publicly available sustainability policy
• 31% have publicly available carbon measures
• 22% have measures to offset the carbon costs of audience travel
• 26% are reducing or changing their fuel usage and 25% are working with renewable energy.
• 14% of festivals showed no sustainability actions or data on their websites at all. 

Director of betternotstop, Hannah Cox, also on the Vision: 2025
steering group shared how the MTM report findings will feed into the new Show Must Go On report planned for 2025.

"It was really important that we work collaboratively with Vision 2025 to make sure that the work we were doing was supporting wider strategy and project work that the Show Must Go On report is doing." Listen to Hannah Cox's full comment on LinkedIn 

Download the More than Music report

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:

• EarthPercent will be Glastonbury Festival in the Green Futures Field with a stall and workshops HERE
• Green Deal Circular Festivals put a spotlight on inspiring and influencing festival visitors HERE
• Julie's Bicycle is looking for a new member of their team - a self-employed CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Project Manager. Apply HERE
• 24% boost in recoveries of reusable plastic bread baskets festivals via a campaign from Bakers Basco and Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) HERE
• Sunbelt Rentals UK makes significant strides in exploring hydrogen as a sustainable energy source, in Access All Areas HERE
• How festival-goers can be sustainable at events, top tips by A Greener Future, in Standout Magazine HERE.

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