Sustainability at our Events
Sustainable Practices across our Flagship Events
At Goodwood, our core belief is to preserve the estate and enhance our natural environment, partnering with many local wildlife groups and charities, investing in natural capital projects and biodiversity schemes. We work hard to continually make our events greener by reducing carbon and futureproofing for changes in climate. We have proudly held the ISO20121 standard for Event Sustainability Management.
By pursuing bold ambitions around sustainability and eco-friendly processes, we are ensuring that future generations can cherish Goodwood as we all do.
Energy
- At Member’s Meeting and Revival, we mandate the use of sustainable fuel, which has a significantly lower carbon footprint than regular fuel, reducing carbon emissions by around 70% compared to standard fuel.
- We use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) bio diesel in all our generators, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared to normal diesel.
- We harness energy from our onsite Biomass Energy Facility along with solar panels to help provide power and heat to many parts of the estate and events, cutting down on what we need from the national grid.
Transportation
- We proudly partner with Trainhugger – if you travel to Goodwood by train, why not book through Trainhugger who plant a tree for every booking made?
- We encourage our visitors to use public transport or car share to get to our events, to help reduce car emissions and traffic in the local area.
Food, Water and Waste
- We supply complimentary drinking water stations across all of our events and encourage visitors and staff to bring their own reusable bottles instead of buying bottled water.
- The bottled water available at the events is provided by South Downs Water, a local supplier based in West Sussex in order to keep transportation miles to a minimum. South Downs Water use 100% recycled plastic bottles, one of the first to do so in the UK, removing single use plastic whilst providing a lower carbon footprint in comparison to canned water.
- We use OneCup reuseable beer cups across all of our events, removing single use plastic. Our aim is to extend this to coffee cups imminently. Look out for the dedicated OneCup bins around the event for your cup when you have finished with it.
- We provide recycling bins for plastic bottles and cans around each event, along with further recycling in our back of house and kitchen areas.
Tree Planting
- We plant thousands of trees each year and continue to improve the environment through numerous hedge laying and re-wilding projects across the Goodwood Estate. We’ve planted over 180,000 trees since 2019 – one of the biggest tree planting schemes in the UK.
- We have a voluntary carbon offset levy available when booking event tickets. This allows customers to help us fund further tree planting, hedge laying and rewilding schemes across the estate, aiding to offset your travel to our events.
Charity and Initiatives
- We raised over £560,000 in 2024 for our charity partners, with a further £180,000 of tickets provided for charity raffles and auctions.
- The Goodwood Education Centre provides forest and farm visits for schools, welcoming almost 2,000 students and hosting over 150 forest school sessions in 2024.
- We try and source as much of our food locally as possible, with approximately 70% of all food on offer at events locally sourced, cutting food miles, supporting local businesses and reducing carbon footprint.
- Over 75% of people employed for our events live within a 25-mile radius.
- The strawbales at Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard are used by our Home Farm to spread on land or are used in a biomass energy facility.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Everyone at Goodwood is encouraged to join an employee-driven DEI network. These groups are a core part of our culture, helping to deliver against our DEI goals for both customers and staff.
They work with external experts to select the right training, safeguarding protocols, and accessible accommodations, commissioning regular auditing of our events and venues, and identifying areas for growth.
We are proud to work with a host of charities and organisations to that end, including Everyday Racism, Racing Pride, Race 4 Diversity, Girls on Track, Mission Motorsport, Women in Racing and Riding a Dream.
Sustainability
For over 300 years the Goodwood Estate has continually demonstrated its responsibility to the land and local community, discover how we embrace sustainability in everything we do at Goodwood.
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