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Sustainability and BS8901

Sustainable bars comes a step closer to reality with the Workers Beer Company completing the UK's first comprehensive implementation programme for the new British Standard, BS 8901 on Sustainable Event Management.

WBC joined a range of businesses from the events industry from large corporate companies through to small and medium sized enterprises, the ten organisations participating in the programme come from every part of the sector, from organisers to venues, suppliers and contractors.   

The BS 8901 Implementation Programme is managed by the specialist consultancy, the Sustainable Events Group (SEG) and the experience and learning from the programme has fed directly into the BS 8901 review process which has just been initiated by BSI British Standards. 

"Our programme gives the UK event industry a real chance to lead the world in the application of sustainability principles to their activities and events.” said Tim Sunderland of SEG. “This is pretty important when you've got one of the biggest events of all time, the Olympics, less than four years away from its London touchdown.”

The programme has the enthusiastic support of BSI British Standards. Anne Hayes, Head of Market Development - Sustainability & Risk at BSI who attended the kick-off workshop said "We are really pleased to see both so many companies wishing to take up the standard as well as the fact that these represent both large and small organizations from across the industry.  We hope that their leadership will encourage others to look at the standard and follow opportunity to be amongst the leaders in achieving BS 8901.”

At the heart of the programme are five workshops and site visits in which all the participating companies and SEG come together to learn and swap ideas the programme is designed to provide a cost effective route to achieve compliance with BS 8901 and allows the participants to really take the lead on sustainability in the events industry.

To find out more about the BS 8901 Implementation Programme visit www.thesustainableeventsgroup.com