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June 5, 2023

Cavendish Venues

Cavendish Venues are leading the way in Meeting, Conference and Event sustainability. Over our 29 year history, environmental sustainability has been a core value of Cavendish Venues. Major milestones include, landfill neutral certification (the first London Venue to achieve that), enabling our clients to offset the carbon footprint of their event and delegate travel, to our active tree planting campaign.

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We continue to build upon our position as London’s leading sustainable conference and meeting venues with:

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Subsidies offered to organisers who commit to recycling all their promotional material
Absolute commitment to our zero to landfill policy
Year on year reductions in all waste streams. E.g. our menus were redesigned to offer more choice and less food waste
Year on year reductions in all inputs (energy, water, etc) in the centres – E.g. we are now using manned coffee stations rather than coffee machines, as the latter are far more energy inefficient
All energy used in the venue is sustainably sourced (i.e. exempted from governments carbon levy)
Winners of multiple awards, 2019 Conference Awards; Sustainable Venue of the Year & shortlisted for the 2020 award
Accredited by the City of London, Clean City Awards, and shortlisted for their sustainability award. Winner 2020 Greengage Sustainable Venue

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Sustainability - we have been doing it for over 29 years. Why not hold your next event at one of our green conference venues.

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Reducing Food Waste in the Meeting & Event sector

There are a lot of organisations based in London and the surrounding areas aimed at preventing food wastage. Green Oak Solutions estimates that an astonishing 15 million tonnes of food waste is generated every year, including 7.2 million tonnes from households. Here at Cavendish Venues we continue to build our position as London’s leading sustainable conference and meeting venues. We are looking at how we can reduce food waste within our company by donating to local homeless shelters and food cycle organisations.Food Cycle gives people in local communities’ access to nutritious food that they would otherwise be unable to obtain for reasons such as lack of income or knowledge of healthy nutrition. Surplus packaged or tinned foods from supermarkets combined with free kitchen space and volunteers keep the organisation growing.Crisis is a charity that aims to help homeless people across the UK. It provides housing, education, employment and food to those who need it. Due to health and safety regulations Crisis is unable to accept food donations that are not packaged, tinned or contained with a sell by date.Bio Collectors is a waste food service that collects food from your select location and takes it to a special processing plant where it is treated and used for horticultural purposes, a highly valuable addition to fertilisers. With the health and safety regulations restraining our ability to donate certain excess food, recycling our waste would be an environmentally beneficial option that will help to improve our Green Conference policies.

Going vegetarian – with benefits

Another way to take the heat out of inflation, is to take the meat out of your diet. Choose a conference venue vegetarian-only delegate rate and we will not charge any increase – but this isn’t just about saving the pennies.

London Conference Venues' Insurance Guide

Conference insurance is a type of event insurance that protects conference organisers and potentially London conference venues from financial losses that may occur due to unforeseen circumstances, such as cancellation or postponement of the event, damage to property, or injury to attendees.