Economy

Filming Sustainable September to take it global

Published

10 years ago

August 15, 2014

Simon Leadbetter

We’ve gone public (with a snazzy video) and are looking forward to the hordes of eager pledgers to sweep majestically towards our Crowdfunder site over the next four weeks. We’re just chuffed right now that it’s the doldrums of August (sigh).

If you could help by maybe pledging even just a tenner – it’ll encourage the late majority. We’re also then able to plant a tree in Lincolnshire with this rather marvellous charity project.

Remember we get nothing – rien, nada, zilch, niente, diddly squat – if we don’t hit the magical £10,000 mark by the 16th September.

The money from this fund raiser will pay our excellent film-making friends at Be Inspired Films. A passionate company that tells stories for charities, social enterprises, foundations, government, education and socially responsible businesses. They made us this last year – and their showreel is well worth watching!

Events come and go. Filming all five events with Be Inspired will create a permanent record and allow us to take the message of sustainability far outside the confines of its point in time (September) and space (the venues) – Tardis-like.

Take a look at our video and pitch here.

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Simon Leadbetter is the founder and publisher of Blue & Green Tomorrow. He has held senior roles at Northcliffe, The Daily Telegraph, Santander, Barclaycard, AXA, Prudential and Fidelity. In 2004, he founded a marketing agency that worked amongst others with The Guardian, Vodafone, E.On and Liverpool Victoria. He sold this agency in 2006 and as Chief Marketing Officer for two VC-backed start-ups launched the online platform Cleantech Intelligence (which underpinned the The Guardian’s Cleantech 100) and StrategyEye Cleantech. Most recently, he was Marketing Director of Emap, the UK’s largest B2B publisher, and the founder of Blue & Green Communications Limited.