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Today’s agenda
1. Introduction to Julie’s Bicycle
2. About ACE reporting programme
3. Environmental reporting requirements
4. What we’re providing organisations
5. The process of reporting
6. How to gather useful information
7. Julie’s Bicycle support and resources
8. Introduction to EPs and Aps
9. What to measure, and why?
10. Introduction to Creative IG tools
11. Summary of key points
12. Q&A
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• Not for profit, founded in 2007
• Our aim is a creative community with sustainability at its heart
• Our goal is to provide the inspiration, expertise and resources to make
this happen
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2. About ACE reporting program
• 3-year partnership with Arts Council England to
support NPOs, MPMs, NMYOs and Bridge
organisations
• Building on the successful partnership from 2012 to
2015
• From 2015 to 2018 (2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18)
• Aim: to embed environmental sustainability in the
work of National Portfolio Organisations and
Major Partners Museums.
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3. Environmental reporting requirements
1. Environmental policy and action plan to be uploaded into IG Tools
• Resources: environmental policy and action plan guide by Julie’s Bicycle
2. Enter environmental data onto IG Tools. Collect environmental data after 1st April (first reporting year
April 2015 – March 2016):
• Reporting requirements have been tailored individually to suit different activities of organisations
• This should be detailed in your funding pack
• If you’re unsure, or would like to adjust your scope, then please contact your Relationship Manager
Energy Business travel
Water Audience travel
Waste Production
Festivals Touring
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4. What we’re providing organisations
• Creative IG Tools, our free-to-use online suite of carbon
calculators
• Telephone and email support for organisations
• Online resources to assist organisations with the
development of environmental policies and action plans
• Verification of data submitted by organisations
• An annual programme of webinars and workshops across
England to support organisations with their reporting
requirements.
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5. The process of reporting
Upload
environmental policy
policy and action
plan
Collect
environmental data
(between April and
May, 2016)
Submit
environmental data
and notify Julie’s
Bicycle
(Deadline: 31st May,
2016)
Julie’s Bicycle will
review data and may
may query questions
questions
(between June and
July)
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5. The process of reporting
Month April 2016 May 2016 June 2016
Our
actions
Webinar to refresh how to
submit data
Start analysing,
validating and querying
information if needed.
Analyse data, validate and
and query information if
necessary
Reporting results to ACE
Support organisations with queries
Your
actions
Submit EP and AP (by 1st April, 2016)
Collect environmental data
Enter environmental data into the IG-tools and
communicate Julie’s bicycle once you have submitted
submitted data
No actions required
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6. How to gather useful information
Waste
• Tonnes
• Weekly bin bags
• Number of monthly
skip collections (in 2,
4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
cubic yards)
• Number of monthly
wheeled bin
collections (in 120,
240, 360, 500, 660,
820 and 1,100 litres)
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6. How to gather useful information
Audience travel
• Use ticket sales postcodes to estimate distance travelled
• Survey audience at point of sale or at the show about their mode of travel and vehicle occupancy
• Include travel questions in marketing surveys
• Make estimated based on visual inspections of car park occupancy
• Julie’s Bicycle resource: http://www.juliesbicycle.com/files/JB-GUIDE-Audience-Travel.pdf
Business travel
• Records from train, flight tickets or car mileage
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7. Julie’s Bicycle support and resources
• IG Tools: www.ig-tools.com
• Other relevant resources:
http://www.juliesbicycle.com/resources
EP and AP: http://www.juliesbicycle.com/resources/environmental-
policy-and-action-plan-guidelines
• For queries, please e-mail or phone us:
• E-mail: support@juliesbicycle.com
• Phone: 020 8746 0400
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8. Environmental Policy and Action Plan
Environmental policy
A statement of commitment to sustainability, setting over-arching ambitions.
• Meaningful
• Specific
• Up-to-date
• Top-level buy-in
• Inclusive
• Communication and accessibility
Action plan
Defines specific targets, actions, responsibilities and deadlines for achieving
environmental improvement and reducing environmental impacts.
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9. What to measure, and why?
Understanding your impacts
Decide which activities to look at e.g.
• Building/office space/ home working
• Travel
• Office supplies/materials
• Printing and publications
• Suppliers
• Design/creative process
And which environmental impacts you want to look at e.g.
• Energy, water, waste
• Business travel and logistics
• Materials/product sourcing
• How your products and services link to your clients’ environmental performance
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10. Introduction to Creative IG Tools
How to upload your
environmental data:
energy, water, waste, audience travel and
business travel.
Set up a new report
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11. Summary of key points
• Deadline for submitting environmental policies and action plans:
1st April 2016
• Deadline for submitting environmental data: 30th May 2016
• Allow to 4-6 weeks for reporting cycle to take place
• Please, do not hesitate to contact Julie’s Bicycle if you have any
query:
support@juliesbicycle.com
www.juliesbicycle.com
Phone: 020 8746 0400
Founded in 2007, initially for the music industry
Julie’s Bicycle is the leading global charity that bridges the gap between sustainability and the arts and culture.
Our vision is a creative community with sustainability at its heart
Our mission is to provide the inspiration, expertise and resources to make that happen.
Our team brings together environmental expertise and the experience of the arts and cultural sectors.
Our website constitutes the most comprehensive resource library developed specifically for the arts and culture industries.
We work with over 1,000 cultural organisations across the UK and internationally.
There are now over 2,000 Creative IG Tools users.
We do three things:
Expertise
Rooted in our ongoing research programme delivered in partnership with Oxford University, we gather the environmental data of almost 2,000 creative organisations via our Creative Industry Green Tools (now a funding requirement for Arts Council England and shortly Creative Scotland). Free to use, the Creative IG Tools allow you to monitor your environmental impacts. Designed and developed by experts from within our sector, they are shaped specifically for the creative industries.
We are consulting and certifying over 70 creative organisations, working across the European Union and advising on international cultural policy. E.g. EE Music
Capacity building
We have created a unique, expert and comprehensive free resource covering every aspect of greening creative business: production, energy, waste and water management, travel, touring, festivals, governance, commissioning, marketing and communications, staff and audience engagement. Our website is used by companies and individuals from 178 countries.
Thought leadership
Annually our programme of events attract creative practitioners from across all fields; we have numerous international speaking engagements; and we drive a number of priority ‘stretch’ campaigns across the creative industries throughout the year. Our current thought leadership programme, Sustaining Creativity looks at the ideas and people shaping the green creative economy. This photo is from the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester where we held an event on the Value of cultural buildings in cities. We bring together people from a diverse range of disciplines, including architects, venue owners and academics. For example we also did a similar event at the Liverpool Everyman, with the architects
Achievements from the first 2-year partnership (main highlights):
98% of reporting Arts Council funded organisations are now engaged with the program compared to 89% in 2012, and 14% at the start of the programme;
85 of reporting Arts Council funded organisations now have an environmental policy and action plan in place;
£1.25 m and 7,063 tonnes CO2e were saved by 490 organisations in 2013/14 alone. This volume of CO2 is equivalent to 906 car journeys around the world or the annual average consumption of 1413 UK households;
Two thirds of all organisations reduced electricity, gas and water use.