Sustainability

Our Sustainability Policy

Everyone Here will ensure that the environmental impact of our programme will be consistently considered throughout project research, design, and delivery. We will challenge, inform and engage our partners and participants in creative conversations about the environment. In line with Arts Council England’s ‘Let’s Create’ strategy, in particular it’s ‘Environmental Responsibility’ principle, Everyone Here is committed to limit the programme’s carbon footprint in response to the climate crisis.

Everyone Here will therefore:

• Use local providers and suppliers wherever possible.
• Reduce car travel and encourage use of public transport, walking and bicycles as part of programme delivery to work.
• Promote environmentally responsible and sustainable practices with those we engage professionally.

Within the Everyone Here office and throughout our programme we will:

• Recycle, reuse and repurpose all relevant materials.
• Limit our use of plastic.
• Reduce water consumption.
• Work paper-free wherever possible.

ACT (our lead organisation for the project) has corporate commissioning and policy approaches that aim to reduce carbon, including activities such as: We will reduce use of transport through use of online collaboration tools & remote working (e.g for meetings with partners, prep meetings with local artists, creative team meetings). We will commit to reduce paper use, all contracting will be done electronically & feedback questionnaires filled in on iPads supplied by us.

We will only use public transport where possible, instead of cars. At the end of each year we will evaluate our environmental impact through using the Carbon Review tool which is freely available from the Carbon Trust. This tool is able to; suggest products (i.e. technical equipment) that produce lower emissions in use and manufacture than the typically available alternatives; offer a comparison between our project’s actual emissions with others in the same industry sector. This is expressed as a percentage above or below the industry average. Our confirmed and potential partner venues have shared with us their developed environmental policies, targets and data which have informed our thinking around how to make this project as environmentally positive as possible. We have had initial conversations with each partner about how their environmental policies respond to public mood, opinion and values within the local community. Green at Heart is the environmental business award ACT has held for over 10 years at Gold level, this is an assessed process and demonstrates excellent commitment to Climate Change.

Across all activities in our programme we will aim for zero waste. We will actively seek alternatives to disposable materials and commit to not using single use plastics.