Sustainable Wedding Summit 2022

Adam Bastock

Adam is the founder of Small99. Small99 breaks down the journey for micro and small businesses to net zero into a series of manageable, bite size steps to follow.

Having spent a decade working with and in small businesses, he understands the challenges owners have with limited resources and time. Most owners feel overwhelmed with the amount of information about net zero, and Small99 was founded to cut through all the noise.

With 99% of the economy made up of small businesses, Small99 provides practical guidance on how they can reach net zero quickly and accelerate the transition to net zero.

They have a goal to guide 1 million businesses to net zero by 2025.

Small99 guides business to net zero through a series of small, manageable steps. With practical guidance, they reduce the overwhelming amount of information out there to empower owners to take action and build more resilient, successful businesses.

99% of businesses in the UK are micro or small businesses, and existing net zero guidance is focused on larger organisations. In trying to do the right thing, many founders have been left with information overload or trying to follow inappropriate guidance. 

Small99 was founded to cut through the noise and get owners to take action, with a goal to guide 1 million small businesses to net zero by 2025.

Small99 offers affordable, accessible action through their private community, alongside a Net Zero directory, free Net Zero assessment tool and regular topical advice through blogs, podcasts and events.

Alison Hargreaves

Alison Hargreaves has founded numerous successful wedding brands over the past 31 years and is the Director of Guides for Brides. She uses online data combined with industry insights from her extensive network to advise and inform wedding businesses aiming for fast growth in a competitive market. 

Alison speaks at conferences and training events including The National Hotel Marketing Conference, National Wedding Show, Wedaway, NAWP, Bridelux Symposium, Goldman Sachs 10KSB. 

“It’s no longer a question of if or when, but how”. “

Katherine Tubb

Katherine Tubb is the Rewilding Business Manager for SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, a charity that works to drive the recovery of nature across Scotland through rewilding, in response to the growing climate and biodiversity crises.

Before joining SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, Katherine founded her own enterprise that placed thousands of volunteers globally, and advised charities on new business development to innovate in their response to social and environmental challenges.

Carina Jandt

Working with high profile clients at companies such as the experiential marketing agency GPJ, Carina was able to witness first hand the growing desire for her clients to become more sustainable. On the flip side, over the 10 years as a technical production manager, she would also see all the items that were sent into skips and off to landfill. 

Over the years of volunteering, she quickly noticed the increasing demand for donations with charities and felt that there was a need to combine the two. Her new venture Event Cycle does just that – turning event waste into donations for charities, community groups and social enterprises. She hopes to be able to support the events industry in the transition into a more circular economy and to help those most in need in the process.

Event Cycle repurpose and redistribute items that are no longer needed to charities and community groups as well as back into the events industry. From graphics to giveaways, planks of wood to plants, there’s a new home waiting for them all. We want to lead the events industry into a circular economy where landfill waste is avoided and by doing so a social impact is made.

Rachel McCaffery

Rachel McCaffery has over 15 years of experience in tourism and sustainability. One of the founders of Travel Without Plastic, she used her experience of working with businesses to overcome problems to establish GreenerGuest.com  – a knowledge hub and marketplace to help hospitality businesses reduce plastic and source more sustainable alternatives. Rachel has driven sustainability strategy and supply chain management for commercial tour operators such as Airtours, Virgin Holidays, STA Travel and Virgin Atlantic. She was heavily involved in the creation of ABTA sustainability Tools such as the Travelife Sustainability System, the Global Animal Welfare Guidelines and Responsible Volunteering Guidelines and works with visitor attractions, hotels, destinations and other tourism businesses to implement and promote sustainable tourism. 

Celia Gaze

Celia Gaze left a senior role in the NHS after frustration and work-related stress made her question her life and became the springboard to start her own business. Over the next few years she transformed a neglected hill farm in Bolton into a multi award-winning wedding and events venue – The Wellbeing Farm. She unites savvy business understanding with a passion for self-development that can’t fail to inspire you to transform your own life.

The Wellbeing Farm is now the first independent events and wedding venue to be a Certified B Corporation® (or B Corp™).