VMI wins Gold Award for 2023 Carbon Reduction from Ecologi 22 April 2024 Ecologi announced on Earth Day (22 April), that their judging panel had awarded VMI with a Gold Award for its carbon reduction successes. Ecologi is a passionate climate platform, who … Read more
VMI Albert-Certified Carbon-Neutral for 2023 10 April 2024 For the second year in a row, VMI becomes Albert-Certified Carbon-Neutral by offsetting its 79.8T of Carbon emissions generated in 2022, in an Albert-Approved Scheme to build a solar panel … Read more
VMI Cuts Carbon Emissions for Third Year by 36% on 2022 1 April 2024 VMI recently celebrated a significant achievement in its sustainability journey, as revealed in its latest carbon audit by Creative Zero. After three years of dedicated efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, VMI surpassed expectations with a remarkable 36% reduction in its operational carbon footprint in 2023 compared to 2022. VMI’s carbon emissions have actually decreased by more than half from its new 2021 base year of 213T to 78T in 2023. These numbers, meticulously calculated in accordance with SBTi guidelines, reflect VMI’s dedication to surpassing industry standards and driving meaningful change in sustainability practices.
Vote for VMI Offset Scheme for 2023 Climate Neutrality 25 March 2024 Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VMI_2023_VOTE VMI’s plans to offset the 79T of CO2e carbon carbon emissions generated in 2023 an Albert-certified offset scheme run by Ecology and we are inviting our clients, staff and other … Read more
Flint Media Publishes VMI Guide to Starting Your Sustainability Journey 28 February 2024 Link: https://theflint.media/sustainability-guide-download/ Unbelievably, Neil Howman of On-line Publisher, Flint Media, was so impressed with the sustainability efforts of VMI, that they asked whether we could help them to create a 10 page … Read more
VMI runs Bootcamp to help youngsters join TV industry 21 February 2024 Courtesy of funding from the DfE and Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and with generous sponsorship from SEGRO, training provider The JGA Group and VMI partnered in early 2024 to run … Read more
VMI SUSTAINABILITY FEATURES 5-PAGES IN ZERB 15 February 2024 Link: https://vmi.tv/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/02/Zerb-Feature-on-VMI-Spring-2024.pdf We are excited to share that VMI’s climate-friendly actions were recently featured in a 5-page case study in the Spring edition of Zerb Magazine, the official magazine of the GCT! … Read more
The Winners Announced – Sustainable Film Competition 22 January 2024 VMI and Sustainable Film arranged a competition to offer free camera and grip equipment and the results are now in…
VMI Sustainability in the News 18 January 2024 Link: https://vmi.tv/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/Definition-Story-on-VMI-Sustainability-Dec-23.jpg Definition Magazine ran a full page feature on VMI and its sustainability initiatives this month.
VMI 2023 Client Survey – great results 17 January 2024 In December 23/January 2024, we held our 16th annual client satisfaction survey, asking all VMI clients who had hired from us in the previous 12 months exactly what they thought … Read more
What company has their own compost heap? VMI! 5 January 2024 We have been recycling all of our bio waste for some years but Bristol, has gone one better and recycle all food waste with their own compost heap. Gary, the … Read more
Sustainable Film Competition 21 December 2023 CALLING ALL SUSTAINABLY MINDED FILMMAKERS! 2023 was a difficult year for our industry, to get 2024 started on the right note, VMI and Sustainable Film are offering 2 productions the … Read more
VMI Publishes Sustainability Film 13 September 2023 VMI publishes a short film to show our approach to sustainability and how we have reengineered our business to become an Albert-approved Carbon-Neutral rental company since 2022. We know that … Read more
VMI awards Best Shorts award at KIFF 2023 24 July 2023 VMI loves to support new entrants to the industry and after a successful inaugural Kingston International Film Festival (KIFF) in June 2022, VMI are proud to be continuing their support … Read more
VMI SPONSORS CINEMATOGRAPHY 2023 AWARD AT PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY 23 July 2023 We never forget that we were all once students – even James Cameron and Martin Scorsese had to learn the art of film craft once! VMI are proud to have … Read more
VMI is recognised by Science Based Targets Initiative as on target for Net Zero by 2030 30 June 2023 VMI’s emissions targets have been recognised by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) website and partners’ website We Mean Business as being on target to our Net Zero by 2030 … Read more
VMI has been a Living Wage Employer for 6-years 8 June 2023 Back in June 2017, VMI became a certified Living Wage Employer, as it ensured that our staff could earn a wage which the Living Wage Foundation calculated would be enough … Read more
May ’23 – VMI Becomes Net Power Exporter 1 June 2023 May 2023 was the first month when VMI became a net exporter of power. In May 2023, VMI imported 2,307KWh of power from the grid but with 55KW of solar … Read more
Company Wood-burning Pizza Experience 31 May 2023 VMI company wood-burning pizza-experience day, May 2023, which was a real team effort, for which a lot of fun was had by all and a lot of pizzas were consumed … Read more
VMI Supports RA Futures Programme 15 May 2023 VMI continues to support the RA Agency Futures Program by offering space and equipment to aid training to help them with their aim of identifying and developing black female talent … Read more
First Short Films Shot by WLC Students using VMI donated ARRI Alexa Camera kit 9 May 2023 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1KOZiQbdc Sometimes, two organisations can help each other and both feel that they have achieved the best deal and VMI’s long-standing collaboration with West London College is one of those rare … Read more
VMI has our own Brazilian Rainforest (really!) 28 April 2023 This is not quite as crazy as it sounds but there genuinely is a region of Brazilian rainforest which we have paid to be caretakers of, as part of an … Read more
London Building Solar expanded to 40KW 18 April 2023 VMI’s London HQ building which was fitted with a 10KW Solar PV array in 2022, has been expanded to 40KW in April 2023 in order to cope with the substantial … Read more
VMI now showing the Carbon Saved on Quotes 6 April 2023 As a carbon-neutral company, we thought that it might be fun to calculate and show our clients just how much carbon they were saving. We use the CO2e/£1m ratio to … Read more
VMI IS ALBERT-CERTIFED CARBON NEUTRAL 3 April 2023 VMI paid to offset our 121.4T of CO2e carbon emissions generated in 2022 to invest in a project to preserve the Brazilian Rainforest to avoid deforestation over a 30 year … Read more