VOTE Eventurous for miaList Sustainability Award! 🏆  Midland’s based team building and corporate events agency are hopeful after being shortlisted for the Best Sustainability Initiative at two industry awards, The Meetings and Incentive Travel Magazine Awards and The miaList.   Watch the Eventurous entry video and vote for Eventurous here. It means the Earth!  Voting closes […]

Emirates Old Trafford has launched a new Eco Roof Garden as part of the continual development of the venue and as part of a sustainability pledge to operate the home of Lancashire Cricket as one of the most sustainable multi-purpose stadiums in the UK. The new rooftop terrace forms part of the UA92 Players’ and […]

Ecoveritas’ Head of Sustainability and Consulting, Kathy Illingworth, explains why the binary ‘plastic = bad, paper = good’ approach to packaging decisions comes with significant risks.  Acknowledging the need for sustainability is one thing; understanding how to achieve it is another. With sustainability no longer an option but a necessity, sustainability must become integral to […]

The circular economy is in full swing—no longer a niche, fuzzy concept. Everyone is looking into it: big corporates, governments, and even cities. Sandy Dhesi, Commercial Manager at Ecoveritas tells us what it means and how it benefits us all and is paramount to the health of our planet too. Passion will drive the transition […]

A recent survey found that only 17% of workers feel that their office is ‘very or completely green’, with a quarter highlighting a lack of encouragement as a reason why they, and their colleagues, were not greener in the office. Adopting green working practices is good for the environment but the changes can also save businesses […]

Naava’s first-ever sustainability report outlines the company’s sustainability strategy, emissions, and handprint. The CEO of the Finnish indoor nature technology company emphases the emergence of the hybrid office as an important business driver. This is an important factor for Naava to sustainably support the modern office as a desirable destination for employees, making it a […]

The Corporate Events Team at the Science Museum in South Kensington has announced it has become a member of independent events industry sustainability body isla. The membership builds on the work already being done by the organisation to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2033. The Science Museum is the first unique venue to join isla. […]

With an optimistic, yet cautious, outlook ahead for business travel in 2023, travellers are on the move again and should be aiming to be as responsible and sustainable business travel as possible.”. Here are some simple, and immediate, ways that you, as a business traveller, can make a positive impact when you’ve arrived at your […]

The finalists have been announced for the BTN Group’s inaugural Business Travel Sustainability Awards Europe. The awards ceremony will take place at the third annual Business Travel Sustainability Summit in London on May 22nd. More than 30 companies and individuals have been named finalists across the 11 categories that comprise the Business Travel Sustainability Awards Europe. […]

Ascot Racecourse is on a mission to operate at net zero carbon emissions by 2030. This means balancing the amount of greenhouse gas they produce with the amount that is removed from the atmosphere, equating to a net zero position. But just how does a venue such as Ascot incorporate sustainability without impacting the sophistication […]

Church House, Westminster is one of the capital’s true hidden gems, located closely by landmarks such as Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and St James’ park. The events and conference venue operates with sustainability at its core and is committed to achieving its Net Zero carbon goal by 2030. As we strive for more sustainability in […]

As one of 283 companies worldwide, Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been awarded a global leadership position on the Climate A List by CDP. CDP is an international not-for-profit organisation engaged in activities to realise a sustainable economy. This is the seventh time Konica Minolta has been placed on the Climate A List. What […]

The Eastside Rooms predicts the events and meetings trends for 2023 and sees the year as The Great Evolution. “The last two years can probably be characterised in similarly sweeping terms; 2021, The Great Return; 2022, The Great Demand. For us at the Eastside Rooms 2023 could be defined as The Great Evolution. But it […]

We spoke to Angelee Rathor, founder of SevenTravel, the slow travel specialist. Where does your passion for slow travel come from? My passion for slow travel came during the Covid pandemic – a moment when life slowed down, and we started to reconnect with nature and our local communities, as everything to do with travel […]

Sustainability has become a major consideration for every business. Whatever we do, there is a responsibility to reduce our impact on the environment. And meetings are no different. In fact, Marriott Bonvoy Events conducted research with meeting bookers revealing that over 60% of them consider sustainability when they choose a venue. Sustainability in meeting venues […]

The team at The 616 Venue has created a luxury venue out of a beautiful barn and its surrounding buildings, nestled in the famous Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. We recently hosted a client who’d booked the venue for a corporate getaway. Post-pandemic they had some serious ground to cover but we knew that they also […]

Christmas is a great opportunity for meaningful employee gifting, and as a one-stop shop gifting platform, we’ve noticed a shift towards more sustainable gifts. Sustainability means consuming less and reusing more. It might feel like we can’t apply this principle to gifting, but there are plenty of ways to reward teams more mindfully. This new […]

Growing engagement through sustainable events By Caroline Medcalf, Sharon Bannister and Dana Moore at Agiito Sustainability is an integral part of most organisations business strategy today, whilst each is on a different journey, some are further ahead than others. With the ever-increasing emphasis on reducing an organisations environmental impact from business activity, our role is […]