Discover useful resources to support you and your organisation in becoming more sustainable.
Sustainability resources
There are a lot of aspects you can consider when aiming for your organisation and its operations to be more sustainable. Leading sustainability certification programme Green Tourism has divided these into three pillars – people, places and planet.
- People – including impacts on the local community; fair work; staff health and wellbeing; and diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Places – including biodiversity and sustainable food.
- Planet – including energy and water use; waste management; and carbon.
This page outlines some useful resources you can access to support you and your organisation on your sustainability journey.
Comprehensive Sustainability Guidance
Green Tourism Programme
Destination North East England is offering fully funded Green Tourism memberships to tourism and hospitality businesses. Learn how to improve sustainability with expert advice and manageable actions that lead to a globally recognised sustainability certification.
VisitEngland’s Step Up Your Sustainability Guide
Save money, reduce your environmental impact, support your local community and win more customers with VisitEngland’s sustainability guide and inspirational case studies.
People
Good Work Pledge
Currently for businesses in the North of Tyne area, the Good Work Pledge recognises employers doing the right things and supports those with improvements to make via a simple framework to start the journey to better work.
The pillars of the pledge include; valuing and rewarding your workforce, promoting health and wellbeing, effective communication and representation, developing a balanced workforce and taking social responsibility.
VisitBritain DEI Pathway for Events
VisitBritain has partnered with pro-social organisation New Intent to create and launch its diversity, equity and inclusion DEI Pathway, supporting the understanding and deeper implementation of DEI across workplaces and in event design.
Understand more about how to embed diversity, equity and inclusion into your event design.
Places
The Sustainable Restaurant Association Framework
An introduction to sourcing, society and environment within sustainable restaurants.
The Food Made Good Standard sets out what 'good' looks like in hospitality, providing chefs and restaurateurs with the tools to improve what their business is doing, share their successes and inspire their customers by dishing up food that not only looks and tastes good, and does good.
Planet
North East Growth Hub Net Zero Toolkit
As part of the North East Combined Authority the North East Growth Hub is the gateway to business support and funding helping to position the North East as an outstanding place to live, work, visit and invest through the creation of the thriving businesses and entrepreneurs.
Access useful downloads, guides, and other resources to help you with your net zero journey.
Sustainability in Practice - A Pathway For Venues
A series of guides to support partners working with clients to organise more environmentally-friendly events and reduce carbon for venues.
Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go's focus is to help save good food from going to waste. By doing so, they help businesses unlock revenue from their surplus, help consumers enjoy good food at great value for money, and empower people and partners to help protect the environment.
GAP Organics
Arrange for waste food to be collected and used to make energy via anaerobic digestion.
