Partners include: National Theatre, Tate Galleries, HOME Manchester, Live Nation, Universal Music, Onassis Stegi, Barbican, Serpentine Galleries, White Cube, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Dance South East, Warner Music, Latitude, Leeds and Reading festivals, Opera North, Watts Gallery, Norwich Theatre Royal, as well as thousands of artists and cultural professionals, like: Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, and Tomás Saraceno.
We provided consultancy services to 50 organisations through our Creative Green programme in 2021-2022.
Since their launch in 2007, over 2,000 organisations in 43 countries worldwide use our free, industry-leading, CC Tools.
JB’s Benchmarks help organisations compare their environmental performance against the industry averages.
JB’s Resource Hub contains over 250 unique resources, the world’s largest environmental resource library for the arts and cultural community.
Our Arts Council England environmental programme supports 800+ National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) and Major Partner Museums, and the ACE wider grant portfolio.
Impact highlights from 2022/23 include:
- 94% of funded organisations include environmental sustainability in core business strategies
- 74% have programmed or produced work exploring environmental themes
- Overall, there has been a 20% reduction in energy use across the portfolio over the last five years, and a 50% emissions reduction since reporting began in 2012.
Our Creative Climate Leadership development programmes have engaged over 250 people, in 26 countries, so far.
We have trained and mentored hundreds of international cultural and creative leaders, in 25+ countries, including: Australia, USA, Benelux, Canada, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Palestine, South Africa, Taiwan, Colombia and Mexico, and across the UK.
The JB team participated in 48 major public speaking events in 2020/21: 23 for UK audiences and 25 internationally.
JB supports policy development at an international, national and city level, working with:
- Climate Heritage Network and partners to lead the Global Call to put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action, a campaign urging the UNFCCC to include cultural heritage, the arts and creative sectors in climate policy at COP
- The Creative Industries Council on the Creative Climate Charter
- BOP Consulting and Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) to publish the UK’s first review of the Creative Industries and Net Zero
- The British Council to research national arts policies of 25 countries
- International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (90 cultural funding bodies)
- World Cities Culture Forum and their members (including Taipei, Seoul, Warsaw, Helsinki, Amsterdam)
- Horizon 2020 ROCK project with the cities of Bologna, Lisbon and Skopje
- C-Change, an URBACT transfer network of 6 European cities led by Manchester
HEADER PICTURE: WalkingStories, Charlotte Spencer Projects – credit Kimbal Bumstead // OTHER PICTURES: Umbrelliums Assemblance at Barbican-Centre Photo © Duncan McKenzie // Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Credit: JMA Photography // Performance credit: Contact, Manchester
