BASIS Hosts Fourth Annual Sustainable Sport Conference
Sustainable Sports group BASIS will be hosting their Annual Sustainable Sports Conference on Tuesday 21st October 2014 at Cardiff’s Millenium Stadium.
BASIS is a members organisation which officially launched in October 2011, relatively young and developing, but with great aspirations to influence the way that sport in the UK, at all levels, is managed into the future with an empathy for economic, environmental and social impacts.
BASIS aims to integrate sustainable development principles into the management of venues, clubs and other sports organisations and use the influence of sport to educate the general public, both as spectators and participants, about sustainability issues.
All delegates are welcome with early bird tickets available through to Midnight 30th September, available here:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/basissustainablesportconference2014tickets8828537393
This conference will bring together people from professional and community sport including governing bodies, clubs and venues along with policy makers, academics and others. The common thread is the desire to incorporate sustainable development principles into our organisations to reduce our environmental impacts, enhance the communities we live and work in and reduce costs of operations.
Guest speakers include:
Omar Mitchell (National Hockey League). Will speak about their groundbreaking sustainability assessment of the NHL.
Libi Jardine (Resource Efficient Scotland). Will speak about sustainability at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Andrea Collins (Lecturer at Cardiff University). Presenting assessments of the environmental impacts of major sport events in the UK, including the FA Cup Final, RBS 6 Nations, and UK stages of the 2007 Tour de France.
The event will be concluded by a number of breakout sessions lead by sports industry leaders from Sport England, the Institute of Groundsmanship, the European Healthy Stadia Network, National Union of Students/British University and College Sport am among others.
Topics include sustainability in community, professional and university sports, energy use in sports venues, driving sustainability in your supply chain and sports turf management.
Further information: http://basis.org.uk/conference/