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Sustainability is a big deal for the events world. Here you can read all of our content around sustainability, including how to make your events more sustainable going forward.

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ESG Initiatives: Optics versus Impact

This article highlights that not all ESG initiatives are equally impactful. Often, visible actions like banning single-use plastics boost reputation, while more effective efforts, like reducing visitor travel emissions, are overlooked. It's time to prioritise what truly matters.

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Case Study: How ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ Helped the CN Sustainability Summit Reduce Carbon Emissions from Visitor Travel

Learn how the CN Sustainability Summit 2023 cut carbon emissions from visitor travel using ‘You. Smart. Thing.’. Discover how this smart travel solution helped reduce the event’s footprint while engaging attendees in sustainable transport choices.

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The Top Sustainable Christmas Party Venues

Discover the best sustainable Christmas party venues that combine festive charm with eco-friendly practices, from renewable energy to zero waste. Perfect for a green celebration!

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The Best Sustainability Tools for Event Professionals

To keep up with the sustainability curve, it’s essential that event organisers adopt the technology and resources to help them in the transition. We’ve put together a list of some of the best tools available to eventprofs to help them integrate sustainability in events.

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How CSRD Affects Event Professionals in 2024/25 and How to Prepare

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) introduces new sustainability reporting standards. This blog explores what CSRD entails, the challenges it poses, and how event professionals can prepare and measure their compliance effectively.

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How to Find a Sustainable Venue for Your Event: A Guide for Event Organisers

With sustainability top of the agenda for many event organisers, choosing a sustainable venue for events is essential. Here, we're diving into how to find a sustainable venue, from the key features to look for, to the questions to ask, to make sure you're making your events as green as possible.

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Setting and Meeting Sustainable Event Objectives: A Guide for Event Professionals with isla

We sat down with isla to discuss how eventprofs can set, measure, and report on their sustainable objectives.

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Corporate Events

Key Challenges for Corporate Event Planners in 2024 and How to Overcome Them

The events landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years, this article delves into the key challenges, and solutions, to the present challenges in 2024. Featuring insight from a panel of highly experienced event planners.

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Events

7 Corporate Event Trends And Predictions For 2024

From technology to tighter budgets, it's fair to say a lot has changed this year. Here's where we see the events industry heading in 2024, and what you can do to gear up for it!

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How To Guide

8 Ways To Use Bottles At Your Event

Whether you're planning a summer party, Christmas party, or even your big day, bottles can add a lovely touch to any theme. Here's how!

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4 min read

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Meetings

The Top Sustainable Meeting Venues in London

Although meetings are often small-scale, they can have a significant environmental footprint. To help you meet your green goals, we've put together a list of venues that are making the grade when it comes to sustainability.

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5 Easy DIY Decoration Ideas For Your Summer Party

Are you looking to make your summer event beautiful on a budget? These 5 ideas are simple but will guarantee to transform your event.

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Gala Dinners

The Top Sustainable Gala Dinner Venues in London

Putting on a gala dinner is already a huge task without even taking into account the event's environmental impact. To help you minimise both the stress and the impact of your event, we've compiled some of the venues that are doing the most to reduce their own impact.

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7 min read

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Conferences

The Top Sustainable Conference Venues in London

It's crucial that your venue aligns with your sustainability objectives when it comes to planning conferences. We've put together this selection of the top sustainable conference venues in London to make going green a little easier - lettuce help you find the perfect spot for your conference!

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6 min read

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Event Catering

The Top Sustainable Caterers For Greener Events

Check out some of the caterers who are serving up a sustainable change in the industry, from cutting down on packaging, to finding creative ways to use commonly wasted parts of ingredients.

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Sustainable Venues

The Top Sustainable Wedding Venues in London

Saying "I do" to a more sustainable day doesn't mean sacrificing any of your vision for your event: we've put together a selection of the top venues in London that tie the knot between sustainability and style.

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Venue Talk: How To Make Your Venue Stand Out From The Crowd On Sustainability

This session from our Venue Talk event at 41 Portland Place tackled how venues can make themselves stand out by being more sustainable.

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Go Green With an Event at Lord’s Cricket Ground

Making your next event sustainable is a great way to do your bit towards helping the planet – and to show your guests just how serious you are about the issues they care most about. But you’ll need a sustainable event venue to match! Enter Lord’s Cricket Ground.

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Historic London Venues: A Transformation Towards Sustainability - Reset Connect 2022

As sustainability becomes more ingrained in the events industry, clients are demanding greener venues for their events. This panel from Reset Connect 2022 delved into how historic venues are leading the charge towards sustainability in the UK.

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Accessibility

Event Legacies And The Importance of Making Sustainable Events Inclusive and Accessible - Reset Connect 2022

As we move to staging more sustainable events, we need to make sure that we’re not letting accessibility fall by the wayside. This panel discussed discuss how we can balance key sustainability concerns with making sure the event experience is positive and inclusive for all attendees.

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Using Event Tech To Drive Sustainability - Reset Connect 2022

As we look to the major challenge of the next decades - the climate crisis - we need to be channelling our efforts and creativity into developing technology to help us to decarbonise. This panel from Reset Connect 2022 explored how event tech can drive forward sustainability across the sector.

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UK Events Agencies Reinventing Around Sustainability - Reset Connect 2022

Event agencies have a real opportunity to advocate for sustainability, but promoting sustainable practices alongside meeting client demands can be a tricky balance. This panel at Reset Connect 2022 explored how UK event agencies are working to bring their clients on the journey.

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Key Takeaways From Reset Connect 2022

In June 2022, Hire Space hosted the London Hub stage at the first ever edition of Reset Connect, the flagship sustainability event for London Climate Action Week. Here, we’ve dived into the key takeaways from some of the stage's sessions on sustainability in the events industry and beyond.

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Understanding Your Event Impact: Key Takeaways From Reset Connect's Sustainability Workshop Series

All events have an environmental footprint, and while attending the sustainability workshops run by Reset Connect, we learnt some valuable lessons about understanding and reducing your events' impacts. Read on for a sneak peek at growing greener.

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