Celebrating Halloween Sustainably!
This Halloween, we embraced the spooky season and to celebrate, we invited our talented colleagues to participate in a competition, showcasing their creativity by decorating their reception areas with Halloween themes — but with a sustainable focus.
Our team members rose to the challenge, transforming their spaces into eerie and enchanting scenes, all while keeping sustainability front and centre. Each entry was crafted with reused, recycled, or repurposed materials, proving that Halloween can be just as thrilling without leaving a heavy footprint. We had a wide variety of decorations, from ghostly figures made of old fabric to rescued skeletons, and decorations that can be used over and over!
Our winner was at The Exchange, Harrogate, this is what Laura our Front of House rep had to say:
‘I inherited a site with no decorations at all, no history of doing them and a limited budget!
I made a display of autumn leaves, pumpkins, bats, pinecones and nature from paper, origami and collecting pinecones from the area. I used cotton fabric to make our lantern lights into ghosts. I convinced someone throwing out a golden skeleton to donate it to my decorations for the site, and brought in some of my own decorations to flesh it out more.
Final touch was carved pumpkins form our site wide pumpkin carving competition, which I filled with LED timer lights and displayer in our window, to the delight of various passers by who have been stopping to take photos of the pumpkins and reception.
Lastly, today I also dressed up, in a costume I made myself a number of years ago.’
You can see some of Laura’s creations below..
