Festival of Thrift is the UK’s national Festival of Sustainable Living. Based in Redcar since 2015, NEECCO (part of the VONNE Foundation), works through creative cooperation with a huge range of partners and produces a year round programme (in person, live, and online), culminating in a large scale ( 35,000+) free annual Festival of themed exhibitions, talks, performance, stalls and food and drink .The festival’s focus is on how we can all make those small changes, the shift to thrift, that will add up to a big difference for the future of our planet.