BUSINESSES will come together for a festival which aims to help Tameside become a greener and cleaner place.
The ‘Tameside Means Business’ network hopes this year’s Net Zero Festival will be bigger and better than ever.
It returns on Friday, December 6, from 9am to 1pm and is once again being held at the Global Grooves’ Centre for Carnival Arts, at The Vale in Mossley.
The festival will include interactive experiences, green business networking and guest speakers to help businesses “move forward while being part of a collective that makes a positive change for all” in the journey to net-zero carbon emissions.
Plans are being established for participants to meet before the festival to walk or cycle to the event – with the objective of reducing emissions and traffic, while getting active and getting to know each other.
The free-to-attend event – which is being supported by Tameside Council, GM Business Growth Hub and Dukinfield-based sustainable tech company MBH Global – will provide fully-funded offers and peer-to-peer support to help expand businesses.
“The organisers will have to work hard to improve on last year’s festival, which was a huge success with many people attending,” said Councillor Laura Boyle, executive member for environmental services and neighbourhoods.
“Events like this, and our wider Think Green campaign, are vitally important when it comes to inspiring residents and businesses to join the journey to a cleaner and greener Tameside, and the common goal of being carbon neutral in Greater Manchester by 2038.”
Businesses can register to attend the event in Vale Mill, off Micklehurst Road, at www.eventbrite.co.uk
