Media Toolkit
Help with promoting your sustainable event
Here are some tips to help you promote your sustainable event:
- Download the GetGreenGo™ 2009 poster; stick it up on notice boards in your school/club to help promote your sustainable event.
(File type: Adobe Acrobat document, File size: 1268kb) - Download and complete the GetGreenGo™ press release template
(File type: Microsoft Word document, File size: 376kb) - Send the press release to your local newspaper by email
- Alternatively, you could contact the newsdesk on your local newspaper by phone to let them know about the event
- Consider inviting a local journalist or photographer to come to your sustainable event
- Take photos of your event and offer them to your local paper if they are not able to send a photographer
- Place a feature about your event in your school/club newsletter
- Does your village or town have a community website? Find out about placing a feature about your event.
GetGreenGo™ in the Press
Send us your news stories and we'll add them over the coming weeks!
11 March 2009, BSI Press Office
Sustainable event challenge for UK schools and clubs
25 February 2009, London 2012 & BS 8901 Press Release
London 2012 publishes Sustainability Guidelines for corporate and public events
16 October 2008, Teeside Evening Gazette
Macmillan green learners' football prize
07 October 2008, Reading Evening Post
Pupils win trip to Old Trafford
02 October 2008, SecEd
Environflippin’mentalists scoop top green award - 02 Oct 2008
24 September 2008, Newcastle Evening Chronicle
School wins green award
22 September 2008, Conference & Incentive Travel
Schoolchildren surmount BS8901 challenges
22 September 2008, BSI Press Office
UK schools lead the way in BSI's sustainable event competition
20 May 2008, BSI Press Office
BSI British Standards teams up with Manchester United to promote sustainability in schools
14th May 2008, The Guardian:
Young people have the tools for change at their fingertips by Will Ashley-Cantello
12 March 2008, BSI Press Office
BSI British Standards sets sustainable challenge for UK schools









