Author: Rob Hunt Picture Credit: Gary Brown Mark Newton is the owner and organiser of Hideout Festival in Croatia. He is also one of the directors at Broadwick Live, a London-based entertainment company that until recently owned a portfolio of 25 international festivals. Mark, you’re the organiser of Hideout Festival, which takes place in Croatia and is attended by thousands of people from the UK. When we think about the challenges that the festival industry is going to face in the future, environmental issues are impossible to ignore. At Hideout, how do you approach that challenge to become a more environmentally responsible festival? For us as promoters and for our British festival-goers who travel over there, we’re very keen to make the festival as green as possible. But I suppose, when you’re going into different countries, they have different policies for things like waste disposal and reusable objects, which makes it trickier to implement our ideas. It’s something that we’re working on constantly though, trying to improve it. For example, one thing we’re looking at is partnering with charities that can offset people’s carbon footprints. There’s an initiative that consists of us offsetting the carbon footprint of all the artists
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