At Gandini Juggling, we fervently champion environmental sustainability as an inseparable facet of our artistic mission. We recognise the arts' potential as a catalyst for positive change and wholeheartedly commit to minimising our ecological footprint while inspiring others to follow suit. This Environmental Sustainability Policy highlights our commitment to sustainable practices and our duty to safeguard the environment.
Our Current Practices
Working as a Team
- The team works remotely as often as possible, using online tools to communicate, rather than meet in person to avoid unnecessary travels
- We use a cloud based filing system to save on paper, but we are also mindful of the environmental impact of such systems and therefore only save and keep documents that are necessary. Archive will be kept on an offline hard disk.
- When travel is necessary, we prioritise bike or public transport when travelling locally, or train when travelling outside of London.
Equipment and Waste
- We are a paperless organisation. We will only print when necessary and only using recyclable paper.
- We reuse and repair as much as possible before considering buying new equipment.
- We recycle our waste following our local authority guidelines.
With the work we’re doing
- When producing work, we discuss with the creative team ways to make the final production greener: create a set as small as possible so it can be easily transported, recycle equipment and props from other productions, etc.
- When touring, we encourage the team to travel by train rather than car or plane.
- When promoting our activities, we only use paper when absolutely necessary and will always use recyclable paper. We will discuss with the printer ways to use green ink.
- We discuss with partner venues and festivals how to improve our carbon footprint by agreeing on a fixed number of posters and flyers.
- We have a green rider that’s sent to every venue we tour to.
Our Commitment
Gandini Juggling is committed to a policy of continual improvement in identifying, understanding, monitoring and reducing environmental impacts. These include measuring and limiting the carbon footprint of projects, identifying and complying with environmental legislation and greening production practices in key areas of impact including energy, materials, waste and transport.
The company is committed to regularly reviewing their environmental policy and associated action plans to deliver environmental management in accordance with the changing nature of operations and from this data, set green targets and goals.
Data Collection and analysis
In 2023, we have started using Julie’s Bicycle Climate tools to assess where we’re at in terms of carbon footprints, how we compare to other similar organisations and identify areas where we can improve.
We use the Carbon Footprint Calculator to record, measure and understand the impacts of creation processes, tours and other activities. We are tracking our travels, waste and energy use.
Data-driven insights empower us to offer recommendations to partner venues, adjust our travel itineraries, and employ creative solutions to curtail our carbon footprint.
Communication
Gandini Juggling champions environmental action and awareness throughout our leadership, creative processes, artistic programming, and educational endeavours. We will disseminate knowledge on green practices, waste reduction, energy efficiency, and CO2 reduction across our entire workforce, operations, and productions. This policy is a first step in this direction.
As we grow into this process, we aim to transparently communicate our objectives, accomplishments, and challenges to all stakeholders, including our audience, participants, staff, freelancers and contractors. Eventually, an environmental statement will accompany our work, along with the Environmental Sustainability Policy and Action Plan, available on request and shared as an appendix to contracts and agreements.
Understanding
For projects and touring Gandini Juggling will set impact targets, a carbon budget and evaluate impact through Julie’s Bicycle’s creative green tools. As part of green production practices and an ambition to work towards a circular economy the company will follow a process of responsible procurement.
Gandini Juggling will assess the possible reputational and moral impacts of sponsors and supporters by researching social responsibility policies in adherence to environmental impacts.
Improvement
Gandini Juggling will seek to reduce energy and water consumption relative to activity. They will seek to reduce waste and apply ambitions to 'reduce, reuse, recycle, repair and refuse'. The company will think carefully about the life cycle of resources as part of productions and through wider partnerships with theatres, schools, families and the local community.
Through transparent decision-making, accountability and a focus on locality Gandini Juggling hopes to play a part in continuing to help to safeguard the rights of the most vulnerable and create a more ethical planet for the future. The company believes that these long term values will also have a direct and vital effect on audiences, artists, staff, organisational wellbeing and professional development.
This policy is not restrictive. We will test its elements to find out what works and what doesn’t. We will review it quarterly and we will continuously research environment topics and evaluate the results of our policy.
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