Delivering Sustainable Events

With sustainability a top priority for all businesses and with imminent legislative reporting on the horizon, considering the environmental, social and economic impact of the events we organise is becoming a critical part of delivering live events. In a typically wasteful industry, it is imperative that we minimise our impact to drive positive change for a more sustainable future. But where do we start? What is sustainability, why is it important and how do we deliver sustainable events? 

This course helps experienced event managers learn the foundations of sustainability, how to apply sustainable practices to event delivery, how to measure the impact of an event, how to review performance to continually improve and inform best practice and more. The course provides tangible insights, comprehensive knowledge and practical applications; enabling event managers to deliver successful events, sustainably.

This course is for event managers with 2-3 years’ experience in any company type or industry, namely Corporate Event Managers, Event Agency Staff, Supplier Staff, Venue Staff and Executive Assistants & PA’s involved in organising events.

The course will provide learners with in-depth comprehensive knowledge including:

• An introduction to sustainability
• Climate change and carbon literacy
• Social & economic sustainability and governance 
• Environmentally sustainable event practices
• Measuring the impact of events
• How to build a sustainable supply chain and resilience for the future
• Navigating inevitable challenges; building a business case for sustainability and problem solving
• Influencing stakeholders and influencing behaviour change
• Storytelling and avoiding greenwashing
• Sustainability certifications/accreditations 
• Assuring due diligence; writing sustainability objectives and a sustainability management plan
• How to conduct a sustainability audit of an event (and conducting an event audit with the group)
• And key sustainability performance learnings and implementing changes for continual improvement

Skills gained or enhanced will be:

• Stakeholder engagement
• Confident contribution
• Data interpretation and analysis
• Assurance 
• Negotiation
• Storytelling
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving

Duration
14 Weeks

Next Start Date
3^rd March 2025

Study Mode
+ Weekly commitment: 3 hours a week for 12 weeks
+ Assessments & project work: 5 hours a week for weeks 13 and 14

Course Fees
£1,499 incl VAT

The next course becomes live on Monday 3rd March 2025, with the first virtual workshop beginning on Thursday 6th March.

The cost of the course is £1,499 (including VAT).

Please contact our course organisers on hello@worlds-better.co.uk with any additional questions.