B:Music is a Birmingham-based music charity with a mission to inspire a love of live music, through performance, participation and learning.

We believe that music is essential to everyone and has the power to transform and change lives, to entertain and uplift, to create shared experiences and to educate.

In 2020 we were reminded of the power of music to connect us, we must take care of our planet for the music to live on.

Through our venues and charity work, we are playing our part to reduce our carbon footprint, become more sustainable, and make decisions that are environmentally friendly. We've been on this journey for some years, and although we won't always get it right, we're always happy to learn and assess our practices.

Our working policies include:

These are just a few examples of our wider policies and practices that all our teams work to.

• Conserving energy consumption to reduce our carbon footprint
• Minimising waste at source
• Conserving water consumption
• Procuring services and products only having considered environmental issues e.g energy efficiency, waste packaging, location of suppliers

We have a dedicated Green Team formed of B:Music staff volunteers who are passionate about sustainability and our environment

84% of our tickets are now digital, up from 23% in 2021/22

We have reduced our print and have moved to predominantly digital marketing. Where we do print, we use recycled, and recyclable paper where possible

Our website highlights a variety of ways to access our venues, including walking, cycling and via public transport. In addition we are partnered with travel companies to make it easy for our customers and staff to get to our venues by public transport

We have reduced energy use by 70% when house and orchestral lights are in use by replacing Town Hall tungsten lighting with LED fixtures

All waste generated by our bars and kitchen is separated at source before appropriate disposal

Complimentary tap water is available in all bar areas for guests to refill their own water bottles

We have a staff meal scheme to minimise food waste by utilising ingredients which can't be used elsewhere

All food and beverage products sourced from local suppliers where possible