East Finchley Festival is a Certified Carbon Neutral event. East Finchley Festival CIC is committed to ensuring that the festival is as environmentally sustainable as possible.
Our goal is to reduce the festival’s carbon footprint and environmental impact incrementally each year. In this endeavour we seek to engage the local community and prioritise stallholders and vendors at the event who are committed to assisting us in making the festival as sustainable as possible.
The sale, use or giveaway of the following is prohibited at East Finchley Festival:
Foil and plastic balloons, glitter, slime, synthetic resins, cheap/disposable plastic toys, single use plastics/plastic bags, plastic cups, straws or cutlery, items containing propellants, helium or batteries.
Along with our regular eco-arts tent, upcycling workshops and free bicycle check-ups, you’ll find dozens of stalls championing recycling, up-cycling, plant-based products and sustainable initiatives.
Since taking over the management of East Finchley Festival in 2019 we have taken the following steps:
- Removed all powered rides and power for vendors.
- Banned the use, sale or giveaway of balloons, glitter, slime, synthetic resin, plastic toys or promotional items, polystyrene or single-use plastics of any sort, or the sale or giveaway of items containing helium, propellants or batteries.
- Ensured that all food packaging and serving materials are compostable in regular domestic rubbish facilities, e.g. vegware cups and food trays.
- Encouraged the use of refillable bottles at the bottle refill station on site in Cherry Tree Wood.
- Replaced our diesel generators with an HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) powered generator for the main stage and a solar array/battery combo for the community stage.
- Through carbon offsetting, we became certified carbon neutral in 2023.
As part of our commitment to sustainability, we carry out a yearly audit, which you can view below.
