The Theatres Trust has announced a new three-year programme to provide specialist theatre environmental advice and undertake free Display Energy Certificates assessments with small-scale theatres in London.
One year on from the launch of the Mayor of London’s Green Theatre - Taking Action on Climate Change initiative at Plasa 08, it has just announced at the 2009 event that it is to receive £450,000 over the next three years from the European Regional Development Fund in London, to deliver the Ecovenue advisory programme.
Mhora Samuel, director of the Theatres Trust, says: ‘When the Mayor’s plan was launched last year to help theatres in London achieve reductions in carbon emissions by 60% by 2025, commercial and subsidised theatres in London were quick to sign up. We recognised that smaller theatres with less resources would find it harder to participate and so made an application for funding to the LDA at the beginning of 2009 to help address the gap.”
The Ecovenue project provides each participating theatre with a free theatre-specific Environmental Audit and free DECs in 2010 and 2011. This free environmental improvement advice will be delivered by a new Theatre Building Services Adviser to be employed by the trust, which will be inviting 48 theatres to apply to participate in the project, which runs until spring 2012. The trust has been posting regular Twitter page updates during PLASA. Specific details regarding Ecovenue can be obtained by contacting: suzanne.mcdougall@theatrestrust.org.uk.
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