Corporate social responsibility tends to show up on an events plan as a box someone else fills in. It lands with us as concrete choices: what powers the stage, how the paperwork arrives, how far the kit travels and how many times it gets used again. If your organisation reports on sustainability or community impact, here is what a staging and event supplier can actually do to help you hit those commitments, based on what we do on jobs every week.
Powering the event without a diesel generator idling behind the stage
The single biggest environmental decision on most outdoor events is power. Our Instagrid 2.1 kWh battery generator delivers 3,600W of continuous 230V power with no engine, no fuel and no exhaust, so it can run a PA or lighting rig silently right next to the stage. It weighs around 20kg, roughly 70% lighter than the diesel unit you'd otherwise be hauling out to the same spot, and produces zero emissions on site. Where a job genuinely needs more, our generator and safety equipment range covers diesel units from 2.2 kVA up to 20 kVA with up to 16 hours of runtime, and we'll talk you through which one fits the actual load. Across our hydration and event work, this approach has kept more than 100,000 single-use plastic bottles out of circulation and prevented an estimated 37,500 kg of CO2, give or take - about what you'd get from taking eight cars off the road for a year.
Paperwork that arrives by email, not in a folder
Every event hire comes with risk assessments and method statements, and the PDFs are with you before the day rather than in a van door on the morning. That's partly a compliance thing, because venue H&S teams want them in advance, and partly a paper thing: over the course of a season, across hundreds of events in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley, going paperless on RAMS and certificates removes a fair bit of printing. Equipment ownership matters here too. We own around 95% of what we hire out in-house, so kit is inspected, repaired and re-tested each season and goes out to work again year after year. Most inflatables are PIPA registered or tested by RPII certified inspectors, with a service history kept for each item.
Local employment and the community around the warehouse
CSR commitments usually mention local employment, and this is where an event supplier does its quietest work. Our 25,000 sq ft warehouse is in Rotherham, and the crew who load the vans, deliver the staging and run the events live and work in South Yorkshire - several of our drivers have been with us for a decade or more. Money spent with a local supplier stays in the local economy, and it cuts delivery miles when the event is on the doorstep. We've been at this since 1999, and the Google reviews have sat at five stars across more than 200 of them for a while now. The corporate clients keep coming back - Anaïs Nyakina Bokole, who books events at Amazon, said: "The team are amazing, attentive and quick to get things up and running. We have used them for years here at Amazon events. Very Reliable." The community side has grown alongside the business too: during the pandemic our team delivered 120 food parcels a week for a local food bank over an 18 month period, and most of our staff have trained as Dementia Friends so they understand how to support people living with dementia at public events.
What this doesn't solve
Being straight about the limits: a battery generator won't run continuous loads above 3.6kW, so a big stage with full production still needs diesel, and we'll say so at quote stage. Reusable cups and waste management on the day are the organiser's side of the fence, not ours - we'll point you at suppliers who do it well, but it isn't in our kit list. And CSR reporting is yours; we can give you the figures and documentation, but the numbers still need to go in your report.
If you're planning a corporate event, festival or community day and want a supplier whose practices stand up in a sustainability report, have a look at our delivery page for how transport works. Then ring the office on 0114 345 0135 and we'll talk through power, stage hire and paperwork for your specific site - the office will tell you straight what will and won't work.
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