About London Sustainability Weeks

London Sustainability Weeks is Greater London’s greenest annual festival, celebrating projects and organisations that are making a real contribution to creating a more sustainable capital.

London Sustainability Weeks provides London’s residents, workers and visitors, of all ages, backgrounds and interests, the opportunity to explore and contribute to hundreds of events, showcasing sustainable projects from major campaigns to locally based events run by residents for residents. Events may vary hugely in their size or message, but what all have in common is that they are directly helping to make a cleaner, greener, healthier London.

Now in its sixth year London Sustainability Weeks 2008 will provide over half a million of London residents, workers, visitors and media an opportunity to discover and experience the diversity and creativity of local action and community projects that are working to make the city’s communities more sustainable. The Love London campaign works not only with local authorities and major campaigning groups, but is unique in its commitment to promote and assist small, community based, initiatives – with a particular emphasis on those which are run by and for residents in areas of high social and economic deprivation.

LSW was first run on a small scale in 2003 (with about 50 events in one week). In 2004, London 21 received financial support for this work and expanded the event from one to two weeks. The partnership of organisations supported over 350 local events across the city.

The core idea is that it can be hard for small projects to get publicity and media coverage on their own due to limited resources and staff time. By working together we are able to provide a stronger story for the press and the public.

Local Authorities are also now actively involved. Most of Greater London's 32 Local Authorities work with Community Groups to organise events in their own areas.