This webinar is for Arts Council Organisations covered by the Environmental Reporting requirements for 2014/15. The webinar covers:
- A reminder of the 2014/15 funding requirements
- How to upload your environmental policy and action plan
- How to use the Creative IG Tools
- The reporting process
- Funding requirements in 2015-18
- Year 2 results
- Q&A
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Today’s agenda
1. Introduction to Julie’s Bicycle
2. Arts Council Environmental programme
3. The role of Julie’s Bicycle in the ACE
programme
4. Environmental reporting requirements
5. The process of reporting
6. Julie’s Bicycle support and resources
7. Introduction to Creative IG Tools
8. Q&A
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• Not for profit, founded in 2007
• Our aim is a creative community with sustainabilityat its heart
• Our goal isto provide the inspiration, expertise and resources to make this
happen
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Reporting Requirements
1. Submit environmental data on the
Creative IG Tools
- 2014/15 – Energy and water for
buildings and outdoor events
- 2015-18 – requirements tailored to suit
specific activities of organisations
2. Submit Environmental Policy and
Action plan on Creative IG Tools
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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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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 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
once you have submitted data
No actions required
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Julie’s Bicycle support and resources
• IG Tools: www.ig-tools.com
• Other relevant resources: http://www.juliesbicycle.com/resources
• Environmental Policy and Action Plan
guidelines: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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Summary of key points
• Deadline for submitting environmental data: 29th May 2015
• 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
The environmental reporting requirements for ACE 2014/15 major funded organisations (i.e. NPOs, MDP lead parterns and MPM.
Mentoring Development projects
If case you have really reported before, you don’t have to join this webinar unless you want to refresh but recommended if you are a new staff member
Presentation of presenter.
We started in 2007 originally to address the issues of environmental sustainability in the music industry. This came at a time when there was a clear tension between what the music industry wanted to communicate/advocate on environmental sustainability, and what it was doing in its own operations. An event like Live Earth was a manifestation of this – artists arriving at an event to shout about climate change issues, then flying back out and not necessarily fundamentally changing their operations afterwards.
We started by researching and understanding the sector’s impacts so that our work had a strong strategic base. We worked with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University to establish impacts across the sector
We expanded our reach to the broader cultural and creative sector, that means we now work with: Theatres, Museums, Galleries, Music Festivals, and the creative industries too (design, advertising etc.)
To achieve this goal we do a range of things…..
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
It’s our strand of work involved with expertise that benchmarking falls under
Some examples of these things in action:
IFACCA – International research
IG cert – Glyndebourne, Sage, Leeds Festival, Mysteryland NL
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.