What makes a Creative Piggy Bank work?
Download our guide to Creative Piggy Banks - a funding model that puts financial power in the hands of communities.
The Freelancer’s Handbook
The Freelancer’s Handbook
New from Arts Council England, the Freelancer's Handbook and Resources Directory. With sections on finding work, fair pay, legal and financial knowledge and preventing burnout this sounds like a must for all the freelancers out there.
Creative Careers Resources
Great organisations and useful resources
Below are some of the useful links to find out more about the routes and pathways into this sector.
Stroud District: the natural place
A website showcasing Stroud District's green economy, innovation and the businesses and projects already based there.
The Place Outside CIC
Nature based practice and simple craft activities to support physical health and mental wellbeing.
Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
A place offering high-quality, innovative creative opportunities for the arts and cultural sector, connecting them with global thinkers in sustainability and wellbeing.
Planet Cheltenham
A hybrid online and physical hub connecting people to community initiatives that tackle climate change, fight social inequality and build a sustainable future for Cheltenham.
St Paul's Vintage
A family-owned vintage store on Albion Street, Cheltenham, selling vintage clothes including reworked and screen printed garments.
Serging Ahead
Craft and sewing workshops that recycle old clothes and repurpose fabric scraps, run by Trudi Price.
Julie’s Bicycle: The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac
A free seasonal companion for artists, independent creatives, community practitioners and producers, gathering toolkits, templates, wellbeing practices and case studies.
Julie’s Bicycle: Board Environmental Champions
A self-paced programme with carbon literacy training and a peer network, helping board members prioritise environmental goals in governance.
Translating Nature
Artworks by artists and scientists that use data drawn from nature as an art material, plus a taxonomy for describing data as art.
Invisible Cape
Redesigning online culture for a zero carbon web by applying sustainable design principles to digital, cutting the carbon footprint of their first website conversion by 82%.
Craftivist Collective
A slower, quieter and more intimate form of activism that uses handicrafts to encourage critical thinking and compassionate correspondence with power-holders.
The Theatre Green Book
An initiative by theatre-makers to move theatre towards sustainability, with three volumes covering productions, buildings and operations.
Power Project
A mass participation art project building a solar power station across the rooftops of North East London through a grassroots Green New Deal.
Festival of Thrift
An annual festival using workshops, exhibitions and performances to give families the confidence to create on a budget and to advance public awareness of sustainable living.