Festival Vision: 2025 UK Event Industry Green Survey 2018

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In 2015, Powerful Thinking, with the AIF and AFO conducted a survey of UK Festivals, asking what sustainability practices festivals have in place and about their aspirations and priorities. The information significantly contributed to the Show Must Go On report (2015) and the launch of Festival Vision: 2025, a shared vision for a sustainable festival industry. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 the survey was repeated to track progress and now four years on, with almost 100 UK festivals having taken the Festival Vision: 2025 pledge, we want to find out, and report back, how we are doing as an industry and identify what more we can do to support positive changes. The results will be shared as anonymous aggregate data in the Show Must Go On report 2020, to be published in December.

Please take a moment to complete this survey — all participants will be entered into a raffle to win a free delegate place for the Green Events & Innovations Conference on Tuesday 5th March 2019 at the ILMC.

Please complete the survey by 21st December. The winner will be announced in January 2020.

YOUR ENTRY IS COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL. ONLY AGGREGATE DATA/INFORMATION WILL BE PUBLISHED.

Email *

Festival Name (optional)

What is the capacity of your festival *

< 1,000

1,000 - 2,499

2,500 - 4,999

5,000 - 9,999

10,000 - 19,999

20,000 - 49,999

50,000 +

How many festivals do you represent? *

Please tick the appropriate box or tell us how many in 'other'.

Other:

Are you a member of an industry organisation? *

Please tick the appropriate box(es)

Association of Independent Festivals (AIF)

Association of Festival Organisers (AFO)

Production Services Association (PSA)

National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA)

None

Other:

Required

Have you signed up to Festival Vision: 2025? *

Please tick the appropriate box

Yes!

Please tell us if you already do any of the following? *

Please tick any that apply. This will help us to get a sense of changes in practices compared to the last three surveys.

We have entered the A Greener Festival Award

We monitor fuel use in generators

We measure and address our carbon impacts

We use the Julie's Bicycle Creative IG Tool to measure carbon footprint

We have a sustainable procurement policy

We have a strategy to reduce waste and increase recycling

We use reusable cups on our festival site

We work with environmental charity partners

We promote and incentivise sustainable travel

We have minimum food standards for traders (e.g. free-range eggs)

We have a green traders award

We are ISO20121 accredited

We are doing Julie’s Bicycle Creative Green certification

We have a specific budget for environmental sustainability

We have a sustainability coordinator / someone responsible for sustainability in the team

We are a member of the Energy Revolution initiative

Other:

Required

Energy Focus: We are particularly interested in energy, as this is where many festivals are seeing results and cost savings. *

Please tell us if you do any of the following

Use LED festoon lighting

Use LED stage lighting

Monitor generator loads (you or the supplier)

Use solar energy e.g. photo voltaic panels

Use waste vegetable oil / hybrid generators

Have a mains grid connection on a green tariff

Receive a post-event energy report form your supplier

Engaged with the energy supplier to increase efficiency and/or reduce fuel use

Charge traders for energy use per kWh

None of the above at this stage

Other:

Required

If you source biofuel, could you tell us What % of your fuel is biofuel?

Which fuel type do you use?

Travel Focus: With travel making up 80% of the average CO2 footprint at UK festivals we are interested in the initiatives that you have in place. Please let us know if you do the following: *

Offer dedicated coaches

Offering discounted ticket + travel deals

Promote car-sharing services e.g. GoCarShare.

Offer incentives for people travelling sustainably e.g. a free programme or reserved camping.

Use renewably-powered onsite transport e.g. electric buggies.

Other:

Required

Do you communicate about travelling sustainably with any of the below? *

Audiences

Artists

Suppliers

Crew

None of the above

Required

After reducing festival-related travel emissions as much as possible would you consider offering carbon balancing to your audience for their travel along with their ticket? If not, please tell us why: *

Yes

We already do!

Other:

Waste Focus: In regards to waste management please list your current practices: *

We have a recycling system for public areas

We have a comprehensive Back of House (BOH) recycling system

We use skips to manage BOH waste

We set recycling targets for the festival

We have checked and verified how our waste & recycling is actually processed after leaving site

We know what kind of recycling plant our waste goes to

We have a reuse policy for wood & infrastructure

None of the above at this stage

Other:

Required

Please tell us if you have put in place any NEW measures in 2018? *

Please tick any that apply

We have a plan in place to manage energy more efficiently

We have been involved with a program/consultancy/project to improve sustainability

We have used the Julie's Bicycle Creative IG Tool for the first time

We have entered the A Greener Festival Award for the first time

We are monitoring energy/fuel use of generators onsite

We have put in new measures to increase recycling

We used reusable cups on our festival site

We have new environmental initiatives onsite

We promoted sustainable travel options

We have introduced food standards for traders (e.g. free-range eggs)

We have introduced a green traders award

We have a new environmental policy and/or action plan for the event

We have made public our environmental policy and action plan or spoken to our audiences about what we are doing

We have worked with our suppliers to look at how they can help us improve sustainability

We introduced a specific budget for environmental sustainability

We have clauses in contracts with sustainability targets

We now have a person responsible for sustainability

Other:

Required

What areas of sustainability do you most wish to address?

Please choose ONLY THREE OPTIONS in order of priority, one, being most important.

Water use

Energy use

Managing Waste

Food sourcing

Serveware & cups

Travel & transport impacts

Overall carbon emissions

Sustainable communications

Clear selection

Are there any specific environmental issues that you are finding hard to tackle?

What are your main frustrations/barriers to improving sustainability? *

Please tick any that apply, and elaborate on specific issues in the "other box"

Lack of time to implement new practices within the organisation

Difficulty engaging stakeholders

Inability of contractors to deliver sustainable options

Cost implications

Lack of expertise with the organisation

Lack of clarity on the right thing to do

Lack of support/demand from audiences

Lack of industry resources and guidance

Other:

Required

Have you read the following resources on event sustainability? *

The Show Must Go On report

The Powerful Thinking Guide (Smart Power for Festivals and Events)

The Energy Revolution Guide to Sustainable Travel for Festivals and Events

None of the above

Required

To help us to track our collective progress in reducing environmental impacts, we need data! You can use the free Creative IG Tool online to measure your event's carbon (CO2e). *

Please tell us if you are interested in doing this (it only takes about half an hour!)

We already use the Creative IG Tool

We intend to do this

We do not intend to do this

If you DO NOT intend to use the Creative IG Tool please tell us why

Note: The key bits of information you need are fuel use (litres), waste figures (tonnes), gas use (Kg) and water use (m3).

We don't have the data

We don't have time

We are not interested

We measure our carbon emissions in another way

Other:

Clear selection

What support do you think would most help you to implement more sustainable approaches? *

Please choose ONE from the list below

If you have already signed up to Festival Vision:2025 has it inspired or encouraged you to take action in any way?

Yes

Other:

Thanks for taking the Powerful Thinking Industry Green Survey 2018. We will be in touch with results and details of the winner of the Greener Events and Innovations Conference 2019 ticket in Jan 2019.

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