Isla cofounder Ben Quarrell and major event expert Poppy
Stephenson have launched Sustainability Simplified, a consultancy that helps
event and media businesses achieve their sustainability goals quicker.
Sustainability
Simplified aims to provide clear and pragmatic advice to corporate
event planners, media businesses, agencies and festival, sporting and outdoor
event organisers looking to reduce their environmental impact.
“Many
organisations don’t know where to start when it comes to sustainability or get
overwhelmed with too much information,” said Quarrell. “Sustainability
Simplified provides strategy, guidance, bespoke tools and training and
communications support. By diving into a company’s existing operations it is
able to design processes and workflows to roll out sustainability across
organisations, quickly and simply with measurable results.”
The
consultancy has already provided work for Nteractive, a 100-person strong
global brand experience agency and Westfield Rise, the team responsible for all
revenue generating activities at the two Westfield shopping centres in London.
Quarrell added: “I am proud of helping to found isla, the UK event industry’s collective
sustainability membership organisation. Launching the business and taking it
from a team of two to an organisation with over 150 members, as well as 100
companies using TRACE, was an incredible journey, and a fantastic movement for
the industry. After building the carbon calculator tool and helping launch a
range of other guides, I am now looking forward to working directly with event
businesses to help them embed these best practices into their operations, and
turn their commitments into real actions”.
Quarrell
is joining forces with Poppy Stephenson who ran major UK festivals, from the
Event Control Centre at Glastonbury to operations director for Boomtown. She
has experience as a university lecturer teaching the next generation of event
professionals and as the learning lead for isla, designing their training
programmes and progression pathways.
Together
they offer a range of bespoke services to help businesses apply sustainability
advice, build this into workflows, budgets and client communications, and start
reducing their carbon footprint straight away.
www.sustainabiltiysimplified.co.uk
