Sustainability at our Events
Sustainable Practices across our Flagship Events
At Goodwood, our core belief is to preserve the estate and enhance our natural environment, partnering with many local wildlife groups and charities, investing in natural capital projects and biodiversity schemes. We work hard to continually make our events greener by reducing carbon and futureproofing for changes in climate. We have proudly held the ISO20121 standard for Event Sustainability Management.
By pursuing bold ambitions around sustainability and eco-friendly processes, we are ensuring that future generations can cherish Goodwood as we all do.
Energy
At Members' Meeting and Revival, we mandate the use of sustainable fuel, which has a significantly lower carbon footprint than regular fuel, reducing carbon emissions by around 70% compared to standard fuel.
We use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) bio diesel in all our generators, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared to normal diesel.
We harness energy from our onsite Biomass Energy Facility along with solar panels to help provide power and heat to many parts of the estate and events, cutting down on what we need from the national grid.
Transportation
We proudly partner with Trainhugger – if you travel to Goodwood by train, why not book through Trainhugger who plant a tree for every booking made?
A shuttle bus service from the nearest train station is also available for the larger events, and we encourage our visitors to use public transport or car share to get to our events, to help reduce car emissions and traffic in the local area.
Water and Food
In 2025, on average across the events, 73% of food delivered by our event catering partner, Levy, is locally sourced and 47% of the food served was plant based.
Throughout the the 2025 event season, we also donated 1,342kg of our event food waste to UK Harvest.
On event, we supply complimentary drinking water stations and encourage visitors and staff to bring their own reusable bottles.
Waste
We provide recycling bins for plastic bottles and cans around each event, along with further recycling in our back of house and kitchen areas.
OneCup reuseable beer cups are available across all our events, removing single use plastic. Our aim is to extend this to coffee cups imminently. Look out for the dedicated OneCup bins when you have finished with your drink.
In 2025, we also invested in an on-site Waste Transfer Station at both Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival – a new system allowing contractors to segregate their waste into the correct containers. We also created a wood store so that useable wood could be donated to local schools.
2025 Festival of Speed data highlights:
- 166 tonnes of wood recycled
- 40% waste recycled
- 60% waste diverted
Tree Planting
We plant thousands of trees each year and continue to improve the environment through numerous hedge laying and re-wilding projects across the Goodwood Estate. We’ve planted over 180,000 trees since 2019 – one of the biggest tree planting schemes in the UK.
As part of our ongoing landscape scale plan, in 2025, we planted new hedgerows across larger fields in four locations across the Goodwood Estate. These hedgerows will improve the efficiency of grazing management and create vital ecological corridors to neighbouring landscapes, allowing wildlife to move safely between them.
Charity and Initiatives
A combined total of £1,931,202 was raised for a diverse range of causes and charities throughout 2025, each making a profound difference to lives, both locally and globally – a testament to the generosity of our visitors, staff and partners. As part of our commitment to support local communities we also donate tickets local residents and charities. In 2025, we donated £162,741 worth of tickets to local residents and £63,739 to local charities.
The Goodwood Education Centre provides forest and farm visits for schools, welcoming almost 2,000 students and hosting 219 forest school sessions in 2025.
We try and source as much of our food locally as possible cutting food miles, supporting local businesses and reducing carbon footprint.
The strawbales at Festival of Speed are used by our Home Farm to spread on land or are used in a biomass energy facility.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Everyone at Goodwood is encouraged to join an employee-driven DEI network. These groups are a core part of our culture, helping to deliver against our DEI goals for both customers and staff. They work with external experts to select the right training, safeguarding protocols, and accessible accommodations, commissioning regular auditing of our events and venues, and identifying areas for growth. We are proud to have worked with a host of charities and organisations to that end, including Everyday Racism, Racing Pride, Race 4 Diversity, Girls on Track, Mission Motorsport, Women in Racing and Riding a Dream.
Sustainability
For over 300 years the Goodwood Estate has continually demonstrated its responsibility to the land and local community, discover how we embrace sustainability in everything we do at Goodwood.
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Goodwood Estate Publishes 2025 Sustainability Report, Marking Continued Progress Towards a More Sustainable Future
Goodwood Estate has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, sharing the next chapter in its long-standing commitment to caring for the land, supporting its community and shaping a more sustainable future across the estate’s diverse businesses and experiences.
A Season of Renewal Across the Estate
As spring settles across the Estate, May brings with it a remarkable transformation. Meadows begin to sway, woodland bursts into vibrant colours and the skies fill with returning seasonal birds. It is a time when nature comes to life and one of the most rewarding moments of the year to experience the landscape in full flourish.
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Goodwood Education Trust partners with South of England Agricultural Society to support free farm visits for underserved schools
New partnership announced between the Goodwood Education Trust and the South of England Agricultural Society to promote free farm trips and support with travel for underserved primary and secondary schools
