The Donut Toolkit
The Donut Toolkit allows individuals and organisations to benchmark their work quickly and easily against global accessibility and sustainability standards. The Donut Advisory Toolkit was created based on the foundation of Doughnut Economics, with the SDGs informing almost every aspect of design. A core component of the UK’s Green Events Code of Practice Pilot, the toolkit helped local authorities and event organisers assess their environmental and social impacts during Phase I – and is now being made freely available for any outdoor event organiser to use.
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The Donut Toolkit is available for both free use and commercial adaptation. The toolkit provides businesses and organisations with the ability to profile accessibility and sustainability practices against nationally recognised standards frameworks created in the UK. The toolkit applies core principles from the Green Events Code of Practice and the Attitude Is Everything Live Events Access Charter to create a question set which integrates data analysis and social value model outputs, automatically creating advisories and support signposting for users.
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Further variations are in development for local authority projects in the UK and several cultural, tourism and business networks around Europe.
Businesses and membership organisations
The Donut Toolkit exists in several formats and can be adapted to meet almost any business need. Primarily in use for events, business, tourism and hospitality the toolkit allows organisations to assess their processes and outputs against accessibility and sustainability benchmarks, generating advisories, data and economic recommendations. An example of a commercial variation in use is Outdoor Arts UK, which enables their membership to assess their events against national standard frameworks, responding to data led evidence and recommendations.
If you would like to know more about integrating the Donut Toolkit into your organisational practice, please get in touch using the contact form.
Government and Large organisations
The Donut Toolkit is currently in use as part of business and event policy projects in the UK and EU. Developed in partnership with Vision for Sustainable Events, Attitude Is Everything, Cheltenham Festivals and Cheltenham Borough Council, it is a core component of the ACE funded national pilot, and an international multi-partnership project contributing to the EU Commission’s Music Moves Europe dialogue consortium.
The toolkit can be adapted for many uses in policy and decision making, and variations are in use within UK local government to help inform project ideas and event applications.
If you would like to know more, please get in touch using the contact form.