The Festival Vision:2025 Crowdfunder is now live, 11th June 2019! The campaign invites everyone in the events industry to be part of an ambitious strategy toward a sustainable events industry.
The Festival Vision:2025 crowdfunding campaign, launched by not-for-profit group Powerful Thinking, gives the whole live events industry the opportunity to work together and provide leadership around climate breakdown through the Vision 2025’s pioneering strategy.
The campaign aims to raise £25k to publish a second-edition of The Show Must Go On Report, to provide comprehensive, free-to-use, practical resources and advice, to develop networks to share best practice, and strengthen a bold roadmap for change – and to make sure the information reaches decision makers who can implement the new strategies.
A lot has moved on in the industry since the first report in 2015, and the updated Show Must Go On report, to be published in early 2020, will provide fresh, relevant information and guidance. Events and companies will be supported through Festival Vision: 2025 to make and meet a pledge for events to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2025 in the key areas of energy, resource management, water, food & drink, travel & transport and governance.
“This is more than resources – it’s a movement. We have the opportunity for the events industry to come together and co-fund the best possible up-to-date resources, share information and support each other, to catalyse action on travel, waste, plastics, energy and emissions. It’s bold but achievable if we engage now and act, and the first step is to fund the work collaboratively.” Chris Johnson (Powerful Thinking, Shambala Festival)
Already many key voices have pledged their support for the campaign; with some companies sponsoring relevant chapters; Grist Environmental on materials & waste, NCASS on food & drink, Tuned In Travel on travel & transport and Power Logistics on Energy. Others have aligned their brands with the overall report, including Playpass, The Showman’s Show, Enviral agency, Event Buyers Live and Immersa –and there are many options left for companies to get involved.
Watch the video and visit the Festival Vision: 2025 Crowdfunder page for support and sponsorship opportunities: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/festivalvision2025
Festival Vision:2025 began in 2015 when The Show Must Go On report edition one, was delivered to the COP21 talks in Paris as a festival industry response to climate change. The report has since become the foundation for the sector’s discourse about sustainability and over 70 festivals have taken the Festival Vision: 2025 pledge to cut their impacts using the advice provided.
Five years on and significant steps forward have been taken in the event industry, technology is changing, and there are many examples of innovation across the sector. The Festival Vision: 2025 campaign will gather and share the most up to date information so event professionals can make the best decisions for events and businesses.
“This is more than resources – it’s a movement. We have the opportunity for the events industry to come together and co-fund the best possible up-to-date resources, share information and support each other, to catalyse action on travel, waste, plastics, energy and emissions. It’s bold but achievable if we engage now and act, and the first step is to fund the work collaboratively.” Chris Johnson (Powerful Thinking, Shambala Festival)
Visit the Festival Vision: 2025 Crowdfunder page for support and sponsorship opportunities: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/festivalvision2025