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2025 Festival Highlights

2025 Festival Highlights

Welcome to the
Sustainable Future Festival!

 

Get ready to ignite your passion for a sustainable world! The Sustainable Future Festival is back, bigger and bolder than ever, celebrating sustainable living on the beautiful NSW Central Coast. This year, we are proud to join forces with The Lakes Festival 2026. Held on the traditional lands of the Darkinjung people, this free community event on Saturday, November 14, 2026, aims to inspire and empower you with the tools to live more sustainably and keep our coast thriving.

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Dive into a day packed with hands-on workshops, captivating demonstrations, inspiring speakers, and fantastic live entertainment. Explore our vibrant market stalls brimming with unique creations from passionate local artisans. Every purchase supports local businesses that champion our shared message of sustainability. Kids can join in the fun too, with a huge range of activities from creative crafts to interactive environmental games, plus the opportunity to sit in a garbage truck! Together, we'll explore clever ways to reduce waste, keep our resources circulating, and protect our beautiful coast.

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This is your chance to connect with your community, discover fresh ideas, and be a part of the greater change.

 

Our Coast, Our Future

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Come meet our

Super Sustainable Heroes!

What a day! The 2025 Sustainable Future Festival exceeded all expectations, with record-breaking attendance, an electric atmosphere, and incredible energy from start to finish. We were blown away by the overwhelmingly positive feedback from both vendors and attendees, who loved the vibrant community spirit, inspiring ideas, and hands-on experiences throughout the festival. 

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Missed out last year? Check out this website to explore what was on offer and catch up on the highlights.

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Interested in being part of this year’s festival? Our 2026 Expression of Interest is open, and spaces are filling up quickly, so don't delay! We can’t wait to return bigger and better in 2026 — make sure you follow us on social media to stay up to date.

2025 Sustainable Future Festival
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2025 Festival Highlights

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Our Sustainability Mission 

At the heart of the Sustainable Future Festival is a simple promise: to celebrate together in a way that honours and protects our planet. Every decision we make is guided by the goal of creating an event that not only inspires change but also demonstrates it in action.

 

From embracing a Zero Waste Approach to partnering with Betizen to provide reusable food and beverage containers, we’re taking steps to reduce our footprint at every level. These containers aren’t just single-use alternatives — they’ll be washed and redistributed during the event, showing in real time how a truly circular system can work.

 

We’ve also banned single-use plastics, installed water refill stations to cut down on unnecessary waste, and worked closely with our vendors to champion better, greener practices.

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To strengthen our efforts, we also engage waste auditing teams to manage all waste operations, hand-sorting materials, and monitoring waste streams to ensure as much as possible is diverted from landfill. This hands-on approach keeps the festival cleaner and greener while providing a free, educational experience for attendees — helping people see how everyday waste can be transformed into resources and infrastructure.

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By combining reusable container initiatives with hands on waste management, the festival demonstrates sustainability in action: reducing landfill, conserving resources, and engaging the community in meaningful ways.

 

But our mission goes beyond logistics — it’s about sparking a movement. By showing what’s possible when communities come together with purpose, we hope to inspire every festivalgoer to carry these ideas into their own lives, workplaces, and neighbourhoods.

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Because creating a sustainable future isn’t just about one event — it’s about building lasting change, one conscious choice at a time.

When is it
Saturday 14 November 2026, 9am - 3pm
Location
Memorial Park, 46 Marine Parade, The Entrance
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