Event Case Study
Holocaust Memorial Day
Welsh Government
Date of Event
27 January 2025
Event Description
Each year on January 27th, the Welsh Government commemorates all those who lost their lives during the Holocaust, through a memorial day event. This year’s 2023 event will consist of an entirely Video Produced Ministerial Address, followed by a number of readings, poems and performances by volunteer choirs, to finish with a prayer and silence.
Production 78 Role
Production 78 have produced this ceremony for the Welsh Government since Holocaust Memorial Day began in 2001.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, this in-person memorial was replaced with a fully produced pre-recorded ceremony filmed on location across Cardiff.
Most recently the event has returned to a full in-person event held at Cardiff's Temple of Peace.
Production 78 have offered a professional service to Welsh Government, meeting our specification at all times from concept to delivery.
The team are experienced in offering production services for high profile events such as the Wales National Service of Remembrance and Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorations and have supported the Welsh Government on a wide variety of events over the years always to a high standard.
Elaine Cripps
Cabinet Communications
Welsh Government
Event Carbon Data
Location or Venue
Temple of Peace, Cardiff
Location Postcode
CF10 3AP
Event Floorspace Area
283
m2
Event Type
Indoor
Event Duration
1
Days
8
Hours
Number of Attendees
182
Number of Exhibitors
0
Accommodation room nights
0
Event team travel emissions UK
52
Kg CO2e
Indoor event venue emissions
28
Kg CO2e
Outdoor event emissions
0
Kg CO2e
Attendee travel emissions UK
1142
Kg CO2e
Exhibitor travel emissions UK
0
Kg CO2e
International travel emissions
0
Kg CO2e
Accommodation emissions
0
Kg CO2e
Authors' comments...
Holocaust Memorial Day Event Data
This annual event has also benefitted in recent years to having branded items that are resuable, therefore almost completely removing event specific Scope 1 emissions altogether.
Highlights we experienced when gathering this data included:
Attendees – Again a small audience that keep the overall emissions small by comparison to other events in the study. This event location and audience demographic, should be a key area that the client could target to reduce emissions by incentivising public transport.
Venue – Held in the Temple of Peace, again a venue that could benefit from some retrofit insulation and greener specifications. However, this is also a listed building owned by Cardiff University, so is unlikely to see this in the immediate future.
Total Scope 1 emissions
52
Kg CO2e
Total Scope 2 emissions
28
Kg CO2e
Total Scope 3 emissions
1142
Kg CO2e
Total event emissions
1222
Kg CO2e