RESOURCES

HOW TO BUILD AN ETHICAL OFF-GRID EVENT

All the experience we have in creating a sustainable, low-impact festival, collated into one place for you to explore.

From the early Green Gatherings in the distant 1980's to the Big Green Gathering of the 90's and the recent decade we've spent building a pioneering, award-winning event in the Welsh borders, we've gained a gritty hands-on understanding of how to embed green principles and practices at the very core of our festival.

Now we want to share that experience, along with insights from the brilliant hive-mind of Green Gathering imagineers, in order to help others lessen the impact of their events too. Take a look below to find out more.

Our How Green page is packed with detail too.

EXPLORE RESOURCES

POWER


You can't power a festival with solar-energy in the UK, can you?

Yes, you really can. Here we want to offer some practical, technical insight and demystify the process of providing off-grid power, showing you what renewables are truly capable of.


Energy Audit 2023


Sustainable Power: Dream or Reality?


An Intro to Off-Grid Electrics


Power Providers List
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Energy Audit 2022

TRAVEL


Travel remains one of the biggest challenges for event sustainability.

Travel accounts for over 90% of our festival’s carbon emissions. This breaks down how both organisers and festival goers can help - the key to tackling this really lies in everyone getting involved.


The Green Traveller Guide


The Joys of Packing Less


Kit Lists

WASTE


Our waste management system is also an education tool.
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Zero waste goes to landfill at Green Gathering - it's composted, recycled or reused, and anything left is incinerated locally for energy use in Wales.
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Clean Stream Report 2023



Clean Stream Resource Centre - Guide to Waste Management



Waste Reduction Initiatives 2023


Crock 'n' Rock - How to set up a reusable serveware system

ETHICAL TRADING


Not just business as usual.

Our trading standards are incredibly high - but traders still love coming to our festival, and take our practices onwards in their festival season too. This creates real world change.

How we work with traders

Terms & Condition: food traders

Terms & Condition: non-food traders

ACCESSIBILITY


Sustainability applies to more than the environment, it requires inclusion and equity.

From offering assisted access to focusing on diversity on stage, these are the steps we take to make our festival accessible to all.

Our Assisted Access area



Gender representation in our line up and the Keychange Pledge

Going beyond


How we aim to be 'sustainable' in all we do - and a whole lot more than that too.

These articles explain our beliefs and ethos, and how we embed a culture of planet before profit.



Not Just Net Zero



How Green Was Green Gathering 2022?



Watch 'Gather' - a spoken word piece about us and about hope



Making Green Gathering - words from our family on why we do what we do

ACTIVISM


Between ethos and our campaigns

BEYOND THE FESTIVAL

Applications will reopen for 2023 soon.

OVERVIEW

If you’re super keen to be involved but aren’t sure what to apply for, email getinvolved@
greengathering.org.uk
with the following:
• Name
• Age
• Preferred role(s), if any
• Experience & skills
• References, if available
• Dates of availability
• Any other relevant info