27/08/2026
Are you a young person passionate about tackling climate change?
DOCA have an opportunity for a young volunteer (aged 16-24) to join us for a mentorship in event sustainability. You’ll be working with Sam Drury Shore a local sustainability advocate, who is also the Chairperson at Sustainable Devizes.
Sam will be able to teach you about different approaches to event sustainability… There’s the maths-y stuff like data gathering, reporting, and carbon footprinting; plus we’ll be investigating initiatives like solar power, reusable cups, and how to encourage people to travel sustainably to our events.
But it’s definitely not all spreadsheets. As a creative organisation, we want to take a creative approach to climate action too, and we’d love you to pitch in your ideas on how we can deliver brilliant community events without trashing the planet at the same time.
The idea we’re most excited about at the moment is rethinking our approach to waste, taking leftover confetti from Devizes Confetti Battle and running workshops to make it into new paper after the event. There are so many other ways we might be able to shake things up, to do some good for local nature, or help people explore greener habits. We’d love for you to be involved.
If you have an interest in working in sustainability, this will certainly be a valuable learning experience. Or if you’d like to see local events become more planet-friendly, there’s a real opportunity for you to make a difference with your ideas.
This project is based in Devizes, but much of the planning can be done online. In terms of a time commitment, it would be probably be 2-3 hours a week, depending on which aspects you’d like to be involved with. And ideally you would be available for the following DOCA events, where we will be taking audience travel surveys, gathering data, and checking our projects are going as planned!
Saturday 26th September - Colour Rush, Wheelie Rush, Confetti Battle
Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th October - Festival of Discovery
If you’re interested and would like to find out more, please email [email protected] and someone will be in touch with you soon.
