Big Green Week: Bristol’s annual festival of sustainability
Aims:
• Encourage individuals and organisations to think about their impact on the environment & offer an opportunity to change behaviour.
• Supply people with the knowledge, skills & tools for behaviour change.
• Celebrate local community projects, charities & businesses demonstrating sustainable behaviour, and the people who make them happen.
Big Green Week 2016 took place from 11 – 19 June with over 150 events, across Bristol, & over 30,000 attendees
The format of programmed events was broad & included talks, volunteering events, film screenings, networking meet-ups, workshops, classes, pop-up restaurants and art exhibitions
The programme also included 24 Spark Something Good volunteering days, in collaboration with Marks & Spencer
Events were classified into one or more of our nine ‘Smart Living Themes’.
BGW acts as a trusted brand ambassador to companies who offer more sustainable products or services.
• Fulfills our behaviour change function and generates revenue
• Theme Sponsors: M&S, Good Energy & Natracare
• Local Business / Event Sponsors: CosyHomes, Curtins & Sawday’s,
• Fee Paying Sponsors for Hub Presence: Triodos, Tesla & Pukka
• In Kind Sponsors: Archreate, HAB Housing & Wriggle
“Contributing to the Big Greeen Week Hub gave Incredible Edible Bristol the opportunity to have amazing conversations not just about food growing, but around how our work fits into a more green and sustainable world. We will definitely look to contribute again next year.”
Sara Venn, Director at Incredible Edible Bristol
"Big Green Week was the ideal platform for our networking evening. Our event sold out within a couple of weeks and was a huge success, plus we made some valuable business connections to support us in future projects. We can't wait to sign up next year!”
Gemma Screen, Whisper Media
“We loved bringing the Milking Parlour Show to Big Green Week, the organisers were extremely helpful in sourcing venues and linking us up with great PR opportunities. The evening events were buzzing with people and we were delighted to be part of such a wonderful yearly event in such an awesome city - there are so many opportunities to change the future with enough of us on board; may the Festival go from strength to strength!”
Lucy Wood, Director at Cape Farewell
“Hosting the clock making event was great! We felt really supported by the BGW staff who were on hand to answer questions leading up to and during the event. The process of setting up the event was seamless. We had a great time running the event and will definitely return again next year.”
