Environment & Sustainability

A person wearing sunglasses and a cap tends to green leafy plants growing on a wooden vertical garden structure outdoors, reaching up to harvest the plants.

Festival of Making CIC produces a large-scale public event as well as year-round projects and commissions.

Our operations have an impact on the environment, and we are committed to understanding and learning from that impact through our Environmental Policy, Action Plan, Julie’s Bicycle Creative Climate Tools and our own team development.

Our work celebrates ‘making’ in all its forms and we will seek to embed sustainability within that, encouraging conversation, inspiration and even innovation. As a team, we are by no means experts. However, through continuous dialogue with partners, artists and stakeholders, we are evolving in our sustainability journey – learning through a combination of listening, sharing and doing.

We are one of the founding members of LANDS, an arts and sustainability working group programme launched in collaboration with Arts Lancashire. An acronym for Lancashire Arts Network for Developing Sustainability, together we share knowledge and best practice across our local sector in an effort to make our field more sustainable. 

If you’d like to speak to us about our sustainability journey, email info@festivalofmaking.co.uk 

Below you can download our environmental policy:

 

Sculptural shelves on a white stone wall cast shadows that read: “THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON OUR ACTIONS TODAY.” The phrase forms only when sunlight passes through cut-out letters on the recycled plastic shelves.