SPRINGBOARD
SPRINGBOARD is a long-term collaborative project, led by Culture for Climate Scotland, to bring about transformational change in Scotland’s creative sector that will help build a net-zero, climate-ready world.
Why SPRINGBOARD?
Collaborative and collective action is required to address climate change and especially to achieve transformational change in society: actions by single organisations or individuals are not enough to address the complex and systemic challenges we face. The creative sector can help.
Culture for Climate Scotland has been working to harness the power of the arts and culture for climate action for over a decade.
Our Green Arts Initiative is a community of practice comprising more than 450 cultural organisations around Scotland working to reduce their climate impact.
We created Climate Beacons, innovative partnerships of cultural, climate change and civic society actors to build deep-rooted, sustained public engagement with climate change, operating in regional hubs across the country.
We’ve brought together Scotland’s leading cultural players (museums, galleries, libraries, heritage organisations, development agencies and performing arts companies) to work in an informal but active Scottish National Culture for Climate group looking at the big picture of sectoral collaboration.
We brought these efforts together and took them to the next level with SPRINGBOARD.
The project has two parts:
- National – SPRINGBOARD: Assembly for creative climate action, first held in early 2023 and again in March 2025.
- Regional – A ongoing programme of SPRINGBOARD local assemblies creative climate action, which began in 2022.
We envisage SPRINGBOARD as an evolving project, changing to meet and absorb the needs of the sector, and society, as we get closer to the net-zero target.
SPRINGBOARD will enable creative and cultural organisations and practitioners to respond to Creative Scotland’s Climate Emergency & Sustainability Plan and help climate change organisations work with creative partners.
SPRINGBOARD: Assembly for creative climate action
The first national assembly took place online from 27 February-2 March 2023.
At the 2023 online assembly, nationwide cohorts, each focusing on a specific creative practice or field of interest, worked on relevant systemic challenges. The cohorts brought in upstream and downstream partners such as funders, transport providers, audiences, local authorities and sustainability engineers to work alongside the creative organisations.
Learn more about SPRINGBOARD 2023.
In 2025, our second national SPRINGBOARD: Assembly for creative climate action brought together all of the different groups that we work with and considered how they can work on transformational change, for their own organisations or themselves as individual creative practitioners, or contribute to other organisations’ change as we all meeting the challenge of the climate emergency.
Learn more about SPRINGBOARD 2025.
SPRINGBOARD local assemblies for creative climate action
Local assemblies build networks of people and organisations working on culture and climate change from the same region so they can learn together, share knowledge and information, and collaborate.
The first seven local assemblies took place across Scotland in November and December 2022. Since then the programme has continued and evolved so that by June 2025 we’d held 23 SPRINGBOARD local assemblies with more planned through 2025-26. Co-hosted in person by leading cultural, civil and/or environmental organisations, each local assembly is designed for its specific location.
All events are accessible and are open to anyone interested in how culture and climate can work together, whether from organisations or as individuals working or volunteering in the arts, creative and screen industries, heritage, museums and libraries, and climate change/sustainability.
Find out more about SPRINGBOARD local assemblies for creative climate action.
