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Sledge wins at M&IT Awards

Last week Sledge celebrated winning a Bronze award at the M&IT Awards, for the Best Sustainable Initiative. The accolade was for the work we’ve done transitioning to an Employee Owned Trust (EOT) model in November 2022, and the ongoing impact it’s had on our business.


Our vision is to embed sustainability into our entire business model, including our culture and events, so that we can deliver measurable and meaningful positive change. To meet these ambitious goals, we’ve taken great strides, in particular through the development of a robust operational toolkit, which now forms our sustainability management system. By applying an app-based tool to all projects, we are able to systematically identify the potential impact of an event during the planning phase, so we can make changes as required. It means we can monitor and measure this as the project progresses, to reduce our impact


Looking more widely, we’ve also established a core vision, with six sustainability objectives. In addition to our commitments to reporting and reducing emissions, these objectives include embedding wellbeing practice for our employees, increasing sustainability awareness, creating measurable, positive change, increasing sustainability with suppliers and engaging with external companies on our sustainability goals, making all information public.


Speaking about the win, Sarah Yeats, our Managing Director, said: “The judges were seeking agencies, venues, hotels, destinations and other suppliers who have rejected greenwashing in favour of creating meaningful sustainability campaigns and processes within their businesses. At Sledge, sustainability is so much more than a buzz word. Our transition to an Employee Owned Trust puts our people in the driving seat and we’re working together to ensure a future of positive change not just within Sledge, but also across the wider events industry. We’re incredibly proud to win this award and it’s inspired us to work even harder towards our sustainability pledges and goals.”

 

 

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