Why attend?

Being shortlisted or winning an award offers you several opportunities.

It is a great chance to motivate your team; increase awareness of your brand and gain PR exposure; connect with new contacts in the industry; celebrate with your peers; and see who is standing out within the sector.

On the night you will connect with clients old and new, meet the finalists who represent the very best in fashion retail, and experience a truly inspirational and entertaining evening, which includes networking drinks, a three-course dinner, entertainment and an after-show party.

Sustainability at Drapers Awards

Minimising the environmental impact of Drapers Awards is important to us.

As part of our commitment to a more sustainable future, we are taking practical steps to reduce and offset our carbon emissions, and we encourage our event partners to do the same.

Below are some of the measures we are implementing at the event to reduce waste and energy consumption, and to minimise the carbon footprint of the event:

OUR EVENT ATTENDEES

GETTING TO OUR EVENTS

Directions for public transport only are detailed on the event website.

THE VENUE

City Central at the HAC constantly looks at the available opportunities to become a more sustainable venue year on year. Some of these measures include moving away from traditional fuels and increasing their use of more sustainable fuel methods; keeping plastic waste to a minimum and where unavoidable ensuring 100% of it is recycled; and ensuring that on average 90% of their staff travel to the venue by public transport.

THE MENU

To tie in with its goals as a venue, its caterer, Create Food designs dishes to suit their clients’ needs, while sourcing only the highest-quality seasonal and sustainable ingredients from local suppliers. It is also introducing a fully electric fleet of vehicles to reduce its carbon footprint.

OUR SUPPLIERS

Drapers chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously.

COLLATERAL, SIGNAGE AND EXHIBITION STANDS

Our event guide programmes and tickets are electronic instead of paper. The signage we use is from Insite Graphics, which holds ISO14001 certification. Event signage is all either recyclable, reusable or used to provide community power when disposed of – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water based and much of our signage is moving to cardboard-based alternatives that are recyclable in generic paper waste collections. For more information click here.

AV SUPPLIER

We have chosen our AV supplier based on its positive sustainability policy, which you can read here.

COURIERS

We request electric vehicles from our preferred courier, Santis Global. For more information click here.

TRANSPORT

Employees are encouraged to take public transport to the event or to travel using our “Uber Green” company account. For more information click here.

TROPHY SUPPLIER

Gaudio, our trophy supplier, plants a tree for every order made.

WE NEED TO WORK HARDER

This section of the website is not just dedicated to shouting about how great we are for doing what we should have been doing all along. We need to do better. We would love to hear from you on how you think we could improve. Please email any suggestions to drapers.awards@emap.com or you can take a few moments to complete the post-event survey that will be emailed to you after the awards.