Historical Arts Council England Programmes
The Accelerator Programme
Accelerator was a key strand of the Arts Council England Environmental Programme (dates 2018 – 2022), working with two cohorts of up to ten organisations to advance their sustainable practice and share insights with the wider sector.
The programme looked at everything from touring models and audience engagement to design and supply chains, income generation and governance.
The Spotlight Programme
The Spotlight Programme was another key strand of the Arts Council England Environmental Programme working with NPOs in the 2018-22 cohort – 30 organisations across 80 sites – to achieve measurable reductions through developing good environmental management practice, and setting achievable, yet ambitious, Environmental Impact Reduction Objectives (EIROs).
Spotlight was the only cluster of large infrastructure cultural organisations working together on a Science-based targets pathway to net zero. The Science Based Targets initiative uses research to predict the CO2 reductions required to keep global warming within 2°C.
