Reduce what we can. Offset what we cannot. Be straight about the rest.

Live production involves vehicles, generators and crew travelling to sites. Some of that we have changed. Some of it we have not. This page covers both, because a page that only lists the good parts is not worth reading.

Our climate action to date

Live figures from our Ecologi profile, not typed in by us. They go up on their own as contributions continue.

What we have actually changed

Three things, not a list of intentions.

Battery power where it works Where a job can run on batteries, it does, which removes a generator and its fuel entirely. They are charged from renewable supply wherever the site or unit allows it. That covers most single-room and small-venue work. On arena and festival sites we plug into the venue or site supply, so we claim nothing there.

Local crew where we can get them Freelancers booked near the venue rather than driven from Northumberland. It is not always possible, particularly on a touring run where the same crew has to travel, but it is the first thing we look at.

One rig, several shows Three headline shows at Milton Keynes National Bowl in one week ran on the same rig, two OB trailers that stayed on site across the week. One build and one de-rig instead of three. The commercial case and the environmental one point the same way.

What we have not solved

We run diesel vehicles. An OB trailer, a van full of kit and a crew getting to a site in Cornwall by nine in the morning is a diesel problem, and the electric options that would carry that load over that distance are not there yet at a price a business our size can justify. When they are, we will change it. Until then it is the largest part of our footprint and there is no point dressing it up.

Generators on the big sites. A festival field has no mains. We plug into what the site provides, which is usually diesel, and our draw is a small fraction of a lighting rig’s. We have not reduced that, we have just made it somebody else’s line on the invoice, and it would be dishonest to claim it as a saving.

Kit gets replaced. Cameras and encoders have working lives and manufacturing footprints. We run kit until it is genuinely finished rather than to a refresh cycle, and we sell rather than scrap where there is life left, but every piece of it was made somewhere.

We are not certified. No environmental certification, and no third party has audited any of this. We are looking at ALBERT, the recognised framework for production sustainability, and we will say so here when we have it rather than while we are thinking about it.

What we offset

Unavoidable emissions are offset through Ecologi, which funds tree planting and verified carbon reduction projects. The figures at the top of this page come straight from that profile.

Offsetting is the weakest tool in the box and we treat it that way. It is what happens after reduction, not instead of it, and a business that offsets heavily while changing nothing has bought a certificate rather than done anything. The four changes above matter more than the total.

Where the website runs

This site is hosted with 20i on UK infrastructure, in Tier 3 data centres running on 100% renewable wind and solar with a Power Usage Effectiveness as low as 1.12, where 1.0 is perfect and most data centres sit above 1.2. The platform autoscales both ways, so it gives resources back when traffic drops rather than holding them.

Those are 20i’s credentials rather than ours, which is the point: they are verifiable rather than self-declared. What is ours is the decision to host there, and to build a site that is light enough to need very little of it. Pages here are hand-built rather than generated by a page builder, and images are compressed and served at the size they display.

Questions we get asked.

Are you carbon neutral?

No, and we are not going to claim it. We run diesel vehicles, we use generator power on sites that have no mains, and our crew travel to jobs. What we do is reduce what we can, offset what we cannot through Ecologi, and tell you which is which.

Are you certified by anybody?

Not yet. We have no environmental certification, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. We are looking at ALBERT, which is the recognised framework for production sustainability, and we will say so on this page when we have it rather than before.

What does battery power actually replace?

On smaller jobs, a generator. A flypack rig on batteries runs a full event day without a fuel-burning source, which removes both the emissions and the noise, and they are charged from renewable supply wherever the site or unit allows it. On arena and festival work the venue supply or the site generator is what we plug into, so the saving there is nil and we do not count it.

Do you plant trees?

We contribute to tree planting and verified carbon reduction projects through Ecologi on an ongoing basis. The live figures are on this page, taken directly from our Ecologi profile rather than typed in by us.

What do you ask of your suppliers?

We encourage subcontractors and suppliers to consider their own impact and prefer to work with those who share the approach. We do not currently audit them, and pretending we do would be the sort of claim this page exists to avoid.

The policy itself.

Our Environmental and Sustainability Policy is the signed version of this page, reviewed annually. It sits with the rest of our policies alongside insurance certificates and RAMS.

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Policy owner: Daniel Wilkinson, Operations Director. Dated 1 April 2026, next review 1 April 2027.