Sustainability guide for events

We are committed to ensuring that the events we organise, support and host contribute to making our borough a great place to live, work in, do business and visit while being proactive about tackling climate change and reducing our environmental impact.

Events should seek to minimise their environmental and climate impact, as well as disruption to the local community and biodiversity by considering noise, waste, traffic, and visitors, as well as promoting environmental awareness and sustainability.

As an organiser of an outdoor event in our borough you can make a difference in helping to make this happen in particular by:

• providing and promoting measures to reduce, reuse and recycle event waste
• providing and promoting measures to conserve water
• supporting and promoting initiatives to minimise travel and transport impacts
• creating opportunities and benefits for local businesses, people and communities

This webpage provides support for event organisers to help them make events more sustainable and ensure environmental and climate impacts are accounted for and reduced. It’s intended for events that are being run on council land, but is a useful guide for any event being run in the borough.