Environmental Sustainability | National Rural Touring Forum

Back in May 2023 we partnered up with Julie’s Bicycle to explore the environmental impacts, practices and carbon footprint of Rural Touring. This lead us to dig deeper into environmental sustainability.

The headline results of that survey were that schemes, artists and venues across Rural Touring are enthusiastic and willing to do more to lessen their environmental impact, however, that we are facing a number of challenges which is making this more difficult and highlighting the need for broader local partnerships and infrastructure.

We also held a What Next? Rural meeting for our members, which focused on three key questions, below you can see the responses we gathered from those who attended.

Power in Numbers

69 %

of schemes are enthusiastic to engage with artists, venues and
audiences more on sustainability issues.

81%

of artists reuse and recycle, set, props & costumes after a show run and many source materials sustainably.

74%

of venues try to recycle as much as they can.

The full report by Julie’s Bicycle from 2023 is available to read via a link in the resources section below, however we have created a plain text summary document which is available here.

Julie's Bicycle Report Summary