Exciting collaboration with Bradford 2025 sustainability partner

The innovative partnership will explore the tracking and reporting of carbon emissions linked to the year-long festival.

The Positive Impact Partners Programme (PIP) is facilitating the collaboration between Bradford 2025's sustainability partner, academics and professional services staff from the University of Leeds and the University of Bradford.

Bradford 2025 – this year's UK City of Culture festival – has partnered up with local organisation SAIL (Sustainable Arts in Leeds) to ensure the year-long festival sets a new standard for sustainability in cultural events.

They have devised a sustainability plan that covers 10 key themes, including biodiversity, supply chains, and reporting.

As part of this work, the PIP programme has stepped forward to facilitate a relationship between SAIL, academics and professional services staff at the University of Leeds and the University of Bradford.

This relationship seeks to develop a more thorough framework to combine knowledge across sectors.   

This collaboration has so far resulted in two workshops that reviewed SAIL’s carbon emissions framework and explored the potential research opportunities that could arise from the partnership.  

It is hoped that this co-operative approach will help create a sustainability benchmark for future UK Cities of Culture and support improved sustainability practices across the wider arts and cultural sector. 

This project supports the work of the University's Supporting a Net Zero City principle of the Climate Plan.

If any staff or students are interested in the project and would like to know more, please email Siobhan Maguire.