Top Tips

• Map out your key stakeholders. Identify the key people and groups you want to engage with and what matters to them.
• If they are not already on board, engage with your trustees or your board to build support for environmental action.
• Be clear on who is accountable, who is leading and who is supporting environmental action and create a shared understanding of how different people will work together and what their role is.
• Involve your comms or marketing person or team in what you are doing so they can support environmental communication and engagement initiatives.
• Share and communicate your own environmental commitment and good practice with the key people and groups you have identified e.g. employees, volunteers, audiences, members, community, peers, funders using the most appropriate communications depending on the people or groups in question.
• Be transparent and specific about what you have achieved and what you want to achieve. Avoid greenwashing and use simple clear language.
• Develop opportunities for environmental training and learning, starting with people within your organisation with specific environmental roles or responsibilities.
• Consult with and work out how to actively involve key people or groups in developing, supporting or taking environmental action.
• For exhibitors and screen heritage organisations, bring stories and activities which showcase the diversity of perspectives, solutions and voices in the climate, nature and justice crisis into your programming, screenings collections, exhibitions or events.
• For sector support bodies, find out what specific environmental challenges the organisations or individuals you work are facing, and develop research, solutions or funding opportunities to address this.
• For skills, training and education providers, building environmental content and resources into skills development, education and training activities.
• Find out what existing sector or local environmental networks or initiatives you could get involved with to build collective action.