WOMAD

Our partnership with WOMAD began back in 2013, and we look forward to many more years of partnership where we can focus on creating a greener Britain, fighting the climate crisis and improving the future sustainability of our planet. We hope to continue to demonstrate to the festival’s 40,000 audience each year what we believe in, and how together we can do more.

Since we first partnered with WOMAD, Ecotricity has played an active role at each festival. In that time, we’ve had many great moments. The Green Britain Debate, hosted by journalist and newsreader Jon Snow, has seen thousands of WOMAD spectators enjoy lively debates on subjects like fracking and climate change.

In a joint collaboration with WOMAD, we created The Young Green Briton Competition, where children aged 11 to 16 present their ideas for a greener Britain on stage to thousands of festival goers including Ecotricity founder, Dale Vince. The Young Green Britons are mentored and coached by leading environmentalists, journalists and business people such as Dale Vince (energy mentor), Robert Llewellyn (transport mentor), Geetie Singh-Watson (food mentor), Simon King (nature mentor) and Mark Avery (nature and environment mentor)

The partnership between WOMAD and Ecotricity has been a huge success over the years, meeting so many of our customers face-to-face and being able to chat to them in an informal, relaxed setting has really helped us understand what motivates our customers and other like-minded people who want to do something to fight the climate crisis. We’ve even worked with them to help reduce the festival’s carbon emissions.

The Taste the World stage, where festival goers are encouraged to get closer to the artists and gain insight into their culture and cuisine, has also allowed Ecotricity to showcase Forest Green Rovers (FGR), the world’s first vegan football club and show how people can live ‘another way’ with vegan food, and planet-saving vegan energy.