Jo Blick [Dip HEd RMN] is the project founder.

In the late 1980`s collaborating closely with high profile UK events teams at Glastonbury, WOMAD and Towersey festivals with a dedicated team of passionate eco-warriors, Jo partnered the inaugural professional recycling initiative in UK live events. This collaborative effort expanded to 19 other events in the UK and Ireland.

Jo currently holds a role of Junior Assessor for AGF. With a background in nursing, she has always been inspired to pursue waste reduction, driven by the desire to witness the event waste system achieve its full circularity potential before reaching retirement age. Known for her assured determination, and a keen eye for creatively combining low-tech resources with new technology, Jo is dedicated to making Wash-Hubs have a lasting impact on the event sustainability landscape.

Geren Spong is our Secretary, bringing recent experience from frontline mental health services. With a rich background as an experienced chef in event warehouse catering, restaurants, and pubs, and having worked for several years with a major event caterer, Geren received culinary schooling and training in France.

In his role, Geren will play a key part in staff training and development. Described by his team members as one of the best, Geren is known for his thoughtfulness, readiness to help, and generous spirit. His experience of living and working on event sites throughout his life gives him a unique insight into key aspects of the cultural community that forms the event sector.

Aileen Ging

Aileen works across operations and sustainability in the outdoor arts / live events sector nationally – based in Manchester.

She currently works with Cheshire based NPO, Wild Rumpus, as Sustainable Operations Lead, producing Timber Festival , Just So Festival and a wide portfolio of other outdoor projects. All of their work seeks to connect people to nature through art.

She’ll be undertaking an MSc in Sustainability and Adaptation at The Centre for Alternative Technology later this year.

Abdoulie Cham is an experienced event professional in the UK and is from Sukuta in Gambia where he’s building a local campsite to provide much needed affordable tourist accommodation.

He is an extremely hard working, highly valued and much respected core member of the Greenbox events team with 14 years experience in site management and care. Greenbox are one of the pioneers of event waste reduction management with a history stretching back to the early years event recycling in the UK in the late 1990’s.

Abdoulie is well known for his calm, supportive and measured ways, with acute observational skills that provides a sense of safety and reassurance to his colleagues and helps to maintain equilibrium in a team.

The team are very honoured to have Abdoulie on board as one of the pioneers of waste reduction and representative for the industries current waste management practices.

Eloise Clarke is an event sustainability consultant and operations manager. She holds extensive experience producing projects and events with a sustainable focus. With a background in the use of sustainable materials and circular event production alongside sustainable festival coordination and behaviour change implementation.

She also has experience working as a sustainability consultant for Shambala Festival and as an AGF Environmental Assessor for events. In the past she has also provided consultancy for a sustainable nightlife consultancy providing reusable cup systems, specialist comms and carbon foot printing.

She is passionate about utilising arts, culture and experience to connect with the public about climate change, empowering groups and individuals to take action and make positive change in their life for both themselves and for the planet.

Demelza Blick began her career in market research and brand strategy, where for many years she helped clients to understand their customers better and communicate their products clearly. She then retrained in sustainability at the Centre for Alternative Technology and currently works on the Carbon Trust incubation and acceleration team where she helps clean tech start-ups and SMEs to develop and grow their fledgling innovations to be market and investor ready. She works across many sectors but has a particular interest in food, agriculture and waste. Parallel to this work she has also freelanced in live music events for 17 years working principally in Artist Liaison and Event Control. She is determined and passionate about bringing low-carbon, environmentally-friendly lifestyles and behaviours into the mainstream.

Sam Edström assumes the role of our Trader Liaison Director and will take the lead on Technical Developments. With extensive managerial experience in both event and city catering, with recent experience in telecommunication infrastructure, Sam possesses a keen eye for the broader picture. He has decades of experience as a highly respected chef in a very wide variety of high profile town restaurants and open air events.

Known for his enthusiastic and open nature, Sam combines these qualities with a curiosity and creative problem-solving drive, earning him the title of the team’s gadget guy. Described by others as one of the nicest, calmest, and kindest individuals to know, Sam brings a positive and collaborative spirit to our team.

Our former chairman, Ross Harvey, served as the accounts manager for multiple events businesses, bringing with him extensive leadership experience from his previous roles notably being a key worker manager throughout the COVID crisis. We consider ourselves very fortunate to be able to call on Ross’s skills for an advisory role with us. Described consistently by those who have worked with him as the best manager they’ve ever had, Ross is known for his dedication, efficiency, caring nature, trustworthiness, dependability, and unwavering support.