Sustainable Events - Our commitment

Drastic and wholesale change, in the big and small decisions we make every day, is needed and exactly as we approach event risk assessments, we need to apply these prinicples to our climate impact:  focus on activity with the biggest impact (flying) and / or the most likely to happen (food). 

However, we cannot let perfection stand in the way of progress!    

There are a multitude of free, creative and easy changes that can be made across the event landscape that, when replicated around the world would gain that vital 1% 

Brightspace has ambitions to become a B-Corp certified company but that takes time.   

In the meantime, here are the changes we have made / are making to reduce our negative impact and, where we can, to take it a step further and use our business and our events as a force for good in the world.  

No-Fly Commitment 

Flying is, without question, the most damaging and dangerous thing we do and we will: 

• No longer attend networking events, educational trips or trade shows that involve flying 
• Take trains whenever reasonably possible (particularly for mainland Europe) 
• Always assume site inspections will be virtual or conducted by local partners  
• Build local delivery teams to reduce numbers who need to fly from the UK 

If we HAVE to fly for event critical reasons or because the alternative would seriously impact on the quality of delivery we will: 

• Always fly economy, fewest travellers as possible, fly direct, look at fewer, longer trips if appropriate 
• Use researched carbon offset schemes