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BFI Sustainable Screen – Peer Sharing sessions
October 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
One event on October 21, 2025 at 2:00 pm
One event on November 25, 2025 at 2:00 pm
The BFI Sustainable Screen programme is running three free peer-to-peer learning sessions on sustainability: audience travel, indoor events, and sponsorships and banking.
Session one: Audience travel
Tuesday 23 September, 2-3pm: Inspiring your audiences to travel sustainably, with contributions from The Courtyard (theatre and arts venue in Hereford, England) and CoMo UK, the national charity for shared transport.
Session two: Indoor events
Tuesday 21 October, 2-3pm: Environmentally sustainable indoor events, including waste, procurement and more – hear about the National Saturday Club’s Summer Show, and the touring New Leaf Film Festival by Cinema for All.
Session three: Funding
Tuesday 25 November, 2-3pm: Ethical and sustainable sponsorships and banking, with inspiration from arts venue Exeter Phoenix, and Tipping Point UK (creators of the Bank Better movement).
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About the Speakers
Audience travel
- Richard Dilks is Chief Executive at CoMoUK, and was previously transport programme director at the business group London First (though started his working life in the film industry!). CoMoUK is the national organisation for shared transport, a charity for promoting its social, economic and environmental benefits.
- Phillip Pearcy is Head of Operations at The Courtyard Arts Centre Hereford, and board member for Arts Alive and Flicks in the Sticks, and the Herefordshire Climate & Nature Partnership.
Indoor events
- Gemma Rust is the Head of Operations at the National Saturday Club – a nationwide initiative that inspires young people’s creativity and learning. Formerly the Programme Manager, Gemma has extensive experience in delivering the charity’s large-scale events, and now plays a key role in shaping and implementing the organisation’s sustainability practices across its national initiative and annual programme of events.
- Ellie Ragdale is the Community Impact Officer for Cinema4All, the national charity for the support and development of community cinema – helping more than 1600 community cinemas and film societies the UK. In June they launched the New Leaf Film Festival – a nationwide festival exploring climate action through community cinema, running screenings alongside talks from filmmakers and local environmentalists, foraging walks and communal feasts.
Funding
- Tipping Point is a worker-led cooperative supporting grassroots groups with resources, training and tools on the intersection of the climate justice, social justice, economic justice, migrant & racial justice, and Palestinian liberation movements. The Fossil Finance team works via the Bank Better and Boycott Bloody Insurance campaigns to support grassroots groups in targeting the banking and insurance industries investing, underwriting and profiting from climate chaos, the genocide in Palestine, and the detention and abuse of migrants.
- Launched in 2021 the Green Phoenix Project is working towards making Exeter Phoenix as sustainable as possible, including adapting our historic building with the introduction of solar panels, LED lighting and secondary glazing, and considering the impact of our people, activities and systems. Within the team Holly is an experienced fundraiser and has secured funding through a range of sources for Exeter Phoenix’s green projects. Gemma is the Green Phoenix Co-ordinator, leading the project’s research and managing the data collection.
