This webinar will give you advice and top tips on how to identify, manage and reduce the environmental impacts of your touring productions and shows.

1. Going Further: Sustainable touring
Top tips on how to identify, manage and reduce the environmental
impacts of your touring
Luke Ramsay and Lucy Latham – Julie’s Bicycle

2. Environmental reporting: the basics 02/04/14
Updating Environmental Policy and Action Plan 02/04/14
Specialist advice: Cultural Buildings and Venues 09/04/14
Specialist advice: Offices 09/04/14
Environmental reporting: the basics 16/04/14
Updating Environmental Policy and Action Plan 16/04/14
Specialist advice: Outdoor Events 23/04/14
IG Tools Training 23/04/14
Going further: Sustainable Touring 30/04/14
Going further: Sustainable Productions and Exhibitions 30/04/14
Communicating success: how to effectively communicate your initiatives and stories 07/05/14
IG Tools Training 07/05/14
Staff engagement: planning, engaging, acting and maintaining momentum 14/05/14
To register: http://www.juliesbicycle.com/resources/ace-npos/Webinars-2014

3. Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to Julie’s Bicycle
• Environmental reporting results from 2012/13
• Environmental reporting requirements – a reminder
• Touring
– Planning
– On Tour
– Post-Tour
• Support and resources
• Trouble shooting Q&A

4. 3-year partnership with Arts Council England to
support major funded organisations – 2012 to 2015
Julie’s
Bicycle
Research Networks
Consultancy
Resources
Training
Events
Thought
Leadership

6. 1. Update your environmental policy and
action plan.
– Notify us using the IG Tools
2. Collecting data on emissions from
energy and water use from April 2013 to
March 2014
– Submit using the IG Tools
Reporting deadline: 30th May 2014
Arts Council Requirements

7. Timeline
Input your
2013/2014 data and
review results
Policy and Action
Plan update
Notify JB on your
Policy and Action
Plan by 30th May
(IG Tools)
Annual submission
for Arts Council
England - Portal
opens 1st May and
closes 13 June
To do now

8. Environmental Policy and
Action Plan: Informing us

9. Planning
• Planning Tour
– Use IG Tools to map out scenarios
– Rationalising routes, making them most distance efficient
– Research venues with a commitment to environmental
sustainability (or ask them)
– Use digital comms. e.g. Skype to communicate with
partners before tour
– If you do travel, try and maximize your impact in that area
by putting on more shows
– Set commitments
– Consider Live broadcasts
– Work with touring consortiums to increase collaboration

10. Planning Examples

11. On Tour
• Transport, Advocacy and Set Design
– Green hotels, or encourage people to use
family/friends
– Design shows to take up minimal transport space
– Advocacy with green riders
– Sustainable forms of transport
– Challenge exclusion zones

12. On Tour Advocacy, choosing
your venue

13. On Tour Sustainable transport

14. On Tour Innovations in set
design
• Depending on scale, having sets built on site might be a
better option
• Can reduce set sizes considerably in order to reduce the
impact of transporting

15. Office Too
• Probably already using IG Tools
• Also have resources relating to
reducing impacts at home

16. Further support
• www.juliesbicycle.com/resources/ace-npos/help-guidance
• Key resources:
– Sustainable production guide
– New Touring guide coming soon!
• Email or phone support from Julie’s Bicycle
• Further webinars
• Practical Guides and Fact sheets
• Case studies
• IG Tools videos

17. Thank you
www.juliesbicycle.com
support@juliesbicycle.com
www.facebook.com/juliesbicycle
www.twitter.com/juliesbicycle

18. Any questions?
• Reporting deadline 30th May 2014
• Allow 4 – 6 weeks for reporting cycle
to take place within
• support@juliesbicycle.com
• www.juliesbicycle.com