Venue Impact Advisory

Ironbridge Gorge Museums (Telford)

Museum / Attraction · West Midlands

Sustainable Venue Score50/100
CertifiedMedium confidence✓ Verified from published report
Overall
131st of 200
Museum / Attraction
41st of 54
West Midlands
11th of 16

Ironbridge Gorge Museums (Telford) holds a Certified rating, scoring 50 out of 100 on the evidence found. On its own reporting, qualitative evidence only. It performs strongest on waste & circularity and has the most room to improve on energy & carbon.

Score breakdown

The five weighted categories that make up the Sustainable Venue Score.

Energy & Carbon11 / 30
Waste & Circularity12 / 20
Supply Chain & Sourcing11 / 20
Governance & Transparency12 / 20
Certifications & Recognition4 / 10
Minimum Threshold floor: Not met. A floor in Energy & Carbon and Governance & Transparency is required to reach Certified or Leader, regardless of the total. This is why a venue can score into a higher band yet remain Listed*.

Carbon data

What the venue reports on its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and how trustworthy the figure is.

Scope 1 & 2
no published tonnage
Self-reported
Trend: qualitative evidence only
Base year: n/aLatest: recentAssurance (as reported): self-reported / limited

What we found

Desk review: Green Tourism GOLD (2013, retained 2016); community recycling and award-winning environmental education; aim to be the greenest inhabited World Heritage Site. Carbon/energy figures limited; clears the Minimum Threshold via the v1.2 small-venue Green-Tourism-Gold route.

A desk estimate from publicly available information at assessment. It reflects the public evidence we found, which may not capture the venue’s full or current activity.

Primary source: ironbridge.org.uk/green-museum

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Provisional v1.4 desk assessment as of June 2026. Not a financial, safety or legal rating, and not a definitive statement about the venue's practices.