onboard:earth has launched a campaign to support the live events industry to reach £1 million raised for environmental programmes in 2026 to tackle the impact of travel to events, 10th February, 2026.
As of 2025, onboard:earth members have collectively raised more than £860,000 to support environmental programmes. We’re now calling on the wider industry to come together, to acknowledge their unavoidable travel emissions, and take action to reach the £1 million milestone by the end of 2026.
All the funds raised help to protect the planet – supporting onboard:earth’s environmental partners to restore and protecting threatened habitats, expand renewable energy generation, and regenerate fragile ecosystems. Their programmes also uphold climate justice by supporting communities on the frontlines of climate change, communities who have contributed the least to global warming yet are facing its greatest impacts.
To date the £860,000 raised for environmental partners has delivered:
- 18,314 tCO2 offset through UK Government approved Woodland Carbon Code for projects in the UK, Verified Carbon Standard, REDD+ or Gold Standard for projects worldwide.
- 86,972 trees planted supporting community-led sustainable agriculture and creating sustainable livelihoods through reforestation.
- 41,108 acres of threatened rainforest protected, supporting projects that store and sequester vast quantities of carbon and preserve biodiversity by safeguarding vital wildlife corridors.
- 831,000 event-goers engaged with protecting and restoring environments.
- 15 Community-led, community-benefit clean renewable energy generation projects to help reduce reliance on fossil fuels, benefit neighbourhoods and empower communities to take control of their energy consumption with financial gains
In 2025 alone, our brilliant members raised more than £122,000. This funding supported a powerful mix of projects, including Project Seagrass, which protects and restores seagrass meadows around the UK coastline, and Carbon Kind and Deki, who help communities in Togo, West Africa switch to fuel‑efficient stoves, cutting emissions and preventing deforestation; Tree planting to generate sustainable livelihoods in Northern Malawi with Temwa; and the protection of threatened rainforest and biodiversity with The Rainforest Trust UK. onboard:earth’s Energy Revolution programme supported Solar for Schools, a project that helps UK schools install solar panels, allowing them to produce low-cost clean electricity, and run education programmes to teach children about the importance of a low-carbon future.
A huge thank you to every member who donated this year: Boomtown, Forwards Festival, Love Saves the Day, Waterworks, End of the Road Festival, Love Trails Festival, Greenman, Tramlines, 2000Trees, Shambala Festival, Junction 2 Festival, Love International, The Showman’s Show, Kendal Calling, Greenbelt, Yuletide, Fire in the Mountain, Eden Festival, New Forest Folk Festival, Nozstock presents…Into The Valley, AIF Congress, Tuned in Travel, Threshold Sports, Big Green Coach, Vintents, Southampton International Boat Show, Retrofestival Newbury, Refresh West, Edinburgh TV Festival, Chorus, Ticketsellers, Citizen Ticket, Event Crew 24/7, Ourea Events – and many more who helped drive this impact.
Rob Scarlett, Festival Director of 2000 Trees, said: “By channelling donations from car parking passes into projects that protect and restore threatened ecosystems, onboard:earth helps us directly tackle the environmental impact of people travelling to the festival.”
Vashti Seth, Founder & CEO, Deki, said: “60% of people in Togo are subsistence farmers who are deeply affected by the impact of the shifts in weather brought by climate change. The support from onboard earth’s members is helping communities build resilience to these threats. The cookstove project onboard.earth supported this year, not only offsets carbon by reducing deforestation but improves the quality of life and health of women and children in rural communities.”
onboard:earth’s core mission is to help the live events industry tackle its travel emissions. Audience travel typically makes up 65–80% of a UK event’s carbon footprint, making it the single biggest environmental challenge the sector must tackle. Working together, we can create a bigger collective impact for the planet – helping your parties to protect the planet, not pollute it.
JOIN US today to access free practical tools, resources and guidance to help cut travel emissions, and work together to gather donations from your audiences to transform the unavoidable emissions into nature-based solutions that nurture our planet.