With sustainability at the top of everyone’s agenda, it can sometimes be easier to look to others as the main culprits inhibiting progress when they are in fact part of the solution says Andrew Harrison in this month's Hospitality & Events North magazine.

We need a ‘mental reset’ to ensure that the supply chain is seen as part of the solution on sustainability and not the problem says Andrew Harrison, Director of ESSA  

This year’s ESSA Conference tackled how we can embrace the challenge of change to fuel a passion that can best influence our surroundings for the better in an ongoing, transformative, positive and collaborative manner.

The results of this year’s 2023 ESSA Awards were announced last night, celebrating more of the sector’s finest talent than ever before.

This month, we chat to one of our newest Board Members, Sales Director of Human Built Andrew Hickinbotham, to get the lie of the land on the events industry, his work with ESSA and his love of Alan Partridge. 

ESSA is proud to announced the full shortlist for its 2023 ESSA Awards. 

ESSA has experienced healthy growth in member numbers this year. At mid October, membership stands at 282 including 13 student members, a healthy increase of 24% during the last 12-month period.

The Events Industry Alliance (EIA) has launched its new manifesto and key policy asks in their second Parliamentary event as they look towards the next general election. A cross-party group of MPs, including Government ministers and members of the shadow cabinet, in addition to CEOs from across the business events industry were guests at the reception.

There is a perception that adopting sustainable practices is an expensive business. ESSA member David Humphreys, Director at Green Circle Solutions, offers his advice on why this doesn’t have to be the case.

ESSA has announced details of its 2023 annual conference. The theme is around how we harness change to our advantage by actively shaping change in our lives, businesses and the industry in which we operate.

In this month's #BoardTalk, we caught up with logistics expert Garcia Newell, director of business development Europe at DSV Solutions, to talk about the #EventsIndustry, his ambitions for ESSA and the benefits of being part of a collective. 

Sustainability comes at a hefty price – or does it? This Recycle Awareness Week, ESSA member David Humphreys of Green Circle Solutions talks to Exhibition News about why it doesn’t have to cost more to get on board with sustainability.

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