Creating outstanding events that respect not just our clients but the planet as well.
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Sustainability Charter
At Showcase we understand the importance and urgency of tackling the climate crisis, that's why we have made a commitment to reduce our environmental impact. We believe that by continuously improving and reviewing our polices we can make a difference.
Our Mission and Values
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We don’t just do events we create them, and we want to inspire all those involved in our events to create an environmentally friendly way of working.
Respect for nature and others, creating awareness, sharing responsibility and integrity, including best practice.
Purchasing
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We are committed to working closely with our supply chain, reviewing their environmental policies and accreditations as part of our supplier management process. Working to ensure that wherever possible the products we source are environmentally friendly.
Our support team is passionate about doing its part and have made a pledge; to purchase eco-friendly cleaning, stationery, in-office food and drinks.
All our appliances within our office are energy efficient A rating.
Equipment and Products
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Since 2014 Showcase as a business has been investing in the latest event technology and furniture products. Where its stock is purchased, it is re-used with a product life cycle of minimum three years for AV and minimum two years for furniture. End of life for these products is managed by offering them to local schools and charities and if not acquired in this way, then will be recycled following local authority guidelines.
Waste
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Entrenching the values of the waste hierarchy (avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle) within our offices, warehouse and events. Our ambition is to condense the amount of wate going to landfills and reduce the amount of non-recycled waste we generate both onsite and at our office. Encouraging all employees to bring lunch from home in washable containers to avoid the amount of plastic coming into the office.
Paper
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We want to drive towards zero printing by the end of 2022. We seek to purchase recycled and recyclable paper products and all our employees reuse and recycle paper where possible.
Carbon
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With travel being typically the largest source of emissions from live events we were keen to work with the charity Ecolibrium to tackle these impacts. We are consistently monitoring our carbon footprint striving to reduce our emissions wherever possible and then donating to balance these emissions through Ecolibrium’s climate solutions programme: Energy Revolutions, which invests in community-led clean renewable energy generation and trees.
We will reduce the amount of energy we use in our office by switching all light bulbs to LED, putting computers in sleep mode when stepping away from your desk and making sure all equipment is turned off at the end of the day. Our electrical supply to our premises uses renewable green energy from the business’ service provider.
Travel and Transport
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We monitor travel to our office and projects, where possible we look to condense travel by encouraging the use of travel alternatives such as e-mail, phone and Teams. We actively promote the use of ‘green’ vehicles within the company. All company vehicles purchased from September 2022 are electric/hybrid. Routes to projects are planned out to ensure the most energy-efficient route is being taken.
Community
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The Showcase team love to get involved and work with the community on substantial projects to improve the environment and encourage wildlife. This allows the sharing of ideas, skills, and experiences to deliver a common goal that can benefit everyone. In addition, it promotes teamwork and brings together individuals from different backgrounds.
Employee Engagement
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Showcase thrives on its employee’s involvement and we are immensely proud to have written our Sustainability Charter, encouraging all our staff to put their ideas forward to create a more environmentally friendly workspace. We intend to raise awareness of employees own individual impact by organising internal learning events, motivating everyone to reduce their carbon footprint when working from the office, projects and at home.
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In-house at Showcase
Showcase has its own Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy, which states that they actively encourage staff to cycle, walk, or use public transport to get to work, go to suppliers and customer meetings, where it is practical and cost-effective. They also use the train for European travel, and only travel to meetings by car when absolutely necessary. To this point two of the team have hybrid cars.
When it comes to sales and purchasing they are as equally aware of their impact on the environment. They monitor record and reduce the purchase of all office consumables including paper and identify other opportunities to reduce office waste, purchase electricity from a supplier committed to investing in renewable energy sources and use couriers that are making efforts to combat CO2 emissions or offset carbon trade.
For the design and build of the events they create, Showcase recycle and reuses as many elements as possible into future designs, to reduce waste and extend the product life through multiple ownership. This can be achieved through hire or part-hire, part- purchase. They also ensure that raw materials such as wood and ply are either recycled or sourced from sustainable source; they have FSC accreditations on wood.
Clients know that when they come to Showcase that they will endeavour to find the most cost-effective and sustainable solution for their clients, whilst maintaining high levels of service and working practices. This is usually achieved by using local labour and suppliers/manufacturers.Showcase is proud to be in these two important partnerships and continues to strive to improve its impact on the planet in every aspect of their business, which is creating outstanding events that respect not just their clients but the planet as well.
Monitoring
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We will update this policy annually. Quartey meetings will be held with employees, encouraging everyone to bring their ideas and views on how we can change to improve our objectives and charter. To ensure we continue to make improvements, we have developed a strategy for reviewing our progress.
Responsibilities
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While it is the responsibility of the Managing Director to implement these policies and procedures, it will be the responsibility of all our employees, event owners, delegates and participants on events not just our organisation to bring these procedures into effect.
“as one we will reduce our impact on the planet along with making the company and events industry more sustainable”.
Report 2022 and pledge 2023
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Whilst Showcase has been working in a sustainable way for many years, 2022 sees the release of our Charter but also our focus on driving more sustainable practices for the business. 2022 as shown in this document is the year Showcase is measuring its impact and we will publish the data for 2022 on the 30th January 2023 and set our pledge for the year as well.
Our Partnerships
Showcase’s drive towards sustainable events has led it to become partners with two leading sustainability organisations, CleanHub and ecolibrium. CleanHub’s mission is to “empower brands to minimise their plastic footprint, while ecolibrium is a live events industry response to the climate crisis by taking action to reduce travel impacts and invest in climate solutions.
CleanHub
Showcase first worked with CleanHub at World Retail Congress in April and was impressed with how it is building a global platform for waste collection, as wells as a movement empowering brands and consumers to help collect plastic before it reaches the ocean. The fact that CleanHub also helps provide jobs in areas around the world, where unemployment is high, is very attractive to Showcase.
CleanHub has provided Showcase with a personalised tracker enabling the company to monitor its impact, and have set the company a goal of recovering 1,320KG of ocean bound plastic. Showcase has also been partnered with ecoBali, a Waste Collection & Recycling project in Kuta Utara, Indonesia. ecoBali was founded in 2006 on the idea of ‘getting responsible with waste’ due to the lack of waste management available in Bali. The “make – take – dispose” linear behaviour is sadly still happening a lot on the island. ecoBali seeks to implement a more circular way to approach waste.
This project had specific appeal to Showcase as its founder Ben Collings has close family connections with this part of the world.
Ecolbrium
Showcase has been a partner with ecolibrium since early 2022 and applauds its mission to promote sustainable development by the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration.Showcase has been tracking its travel throughout the entire event cycle, including site visits & meetings, the event itself as well as the impact of subcontractors, whilst monitoring all forms of transport: planes, trains and automobiles. Ecolbrium’s impact on the event industry has been important as these figures prove:
- 6,293,720 travel miles balanced
- 1,324 tonnes of carbon dioxide mitigated
- 15 climate projects supported
- 1,030 acres of rainforest protected
- 5,000 trees planted
- 19.3 million total travel miles balanced to date
our event services
3D Visualisation
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We realise your meeting or event set up with 3D renders, so that event planners and conference organisers can visualise all aspects of the event venue and set up before build.
Design
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Our design team is made up of creative, architectural trained designers who are responsible for creating all aspects of event design. As well as offering full event design services, our skills include 3D rendering, CAD space planning and large format graphic printing.
Set & Stage
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From large scale indoor exhibitions to outdoor festivals and events our set & stage designers will ensure your brand and event has impact. Set design and production is tailored to the client’s.
Exhibition Stands
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Our exhibition department offers exhibition stand design and production of a range of exhibition solutions. From off-the-shelf to bespoke exhibition stands created by one of our exhibition designers. Our conference exhibition event services include set-up and stand clearing.
Large Format Printing
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Branding is the most important part of any commercial event. We offer quality design and production of exhibition graphics that can be used as an exhibition or stage backdrop.
Furniture
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Showcase owns and offers a complete range of exhibition and event furniture that is available for exhibition stand hire, VIP areas, after parties and speaker lounges.
Video Equipment
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Showcase’s dedicated video production team provide filming and video editing services. Including green screen technology, animation and content creation.
Sound Equipment
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Showcase has a range of AV equipment for hire. Audio visual equipment hire can be incorporated into a larger event as part of the event design or hired individually. Sound equipment hire is available for hire for both indoor and outdoor events.
Lighting Equipment
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Showcase carries a range of lighting equipment available for equipment hire.
Content Creation
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Showcase can produce all aspects of content creation including film shoots, video editing, info graphics, speaker presentations and mapping content. Our in house event designers work with you to reflect your brand.
Digital Signage
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From big screen hire to smaller digital advertising screens, Showcase has a number of cutting edge exhibition screens for hire. These can be used to ensure brand awareness is key at any conference or event.
Dedicated Team
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Our team has over 20 years experience of conference, exhibition, outdoor events, award dinners and gala event production. Each project has a dedicated project manager to ensure your event runs smoothly.
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