Category: Mayday events
The UK film industry contributes £4.5 billion to the Economy. It’s also responsible for an estimated 500,000 tonnes of carbon a year. Producers, cameramen and gaffers (film electricians) would like to be green, but a lack of affordable alternatives to power-hungry incandescent film lights make this difficult.
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A South West Mayday gathering was held at the Start Living Centre in Cabot Circus Bristol last week. The event attracted senior business leaders from a variety of sectors including insurance, water, energy, tourism, legal, food and more.
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Last week was National Tree Planting Week and to celebrate The Mayday Team together with colleagues from Business in the Community braved the cold on Tuesday to support one of BITC's Award partners, the Woodland Trust, in their plan to create an 858 acre woodland in the Heartwood Forest in Herfordshire with 600,000 newly planted trees. Located near Sandridge just three miles north of St Albans in Hertfordshire, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the site into the largest new continuous native forest in England.
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Last week I attended the official launch of the East Midlands Mayday Network at Boots Head Office in Nottingham. The day was a big success with representatives from regional businesses and government in attendance. The Network was officially launched by Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive, Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots.
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Last week our good friends at the National Business Travel Network held their annual conference at Milbank Tower. The positive messages and exciting innovations were a refreshing change from the student riots two days before and it really was a great day.
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I joined 160 business Leaders last Friday at ‘Business Unusual’, a full day conference organised by Business in the Community’s Yorkshire & Humber team. The Great Hall at Leeds University was buzzing as delegates began the day playing BT’s Better Business game, and working in teams to make difficult choices as they set up their future sustainable businesses. The game is a great way to get business people thinking about what the shift to a sustainable model will look like.
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The Prince’s Mayday Network Scotland, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the Carbon Trust, have created another innovative project to help our members reduce their carbon and increase their profits. This collaboration will provide members with a free carbon audit and action plan, completed by MSc students from the Carbon Management programme.
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Following the great success of the Royal START Tour in September, organised by Business in the Community across the UK, the West Midlands focus is on seizing and building on the momentum to drive the Sustainability Revolution. One of the key steps in achieving this is a tangible link from START to the Mayday Network.
To move this forward, on Wednesday 13th October members of the West Midlands Mayday Climate Change Leaders Group went back to school to hold their regular review meeting at Perryfields School in Oldbury.
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written by Matt Mellen, Mayday Team
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HRH the Prince of Wales launched his Royal Tour last week as part of Project Start which aims to help people across the UK understand why and how to lead more sustainable lives. We welcome Start as the consumer facing brand of Mayday and an important step in the Mayday Journey. Start aims to inspire and support individuals to understand what a sustainable future looks like, that it is a better future, and how they might start moving towards it.
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The Prince’s Mayday Network is convened by Business in the Community
