"Manchester Arts Sustainability Team was established in 2011 as a network of arts and cultural organisations who came together to understand how they could contribute to the delivery of our city’s first Climate Change Strategy. aims to reduce the environmental impact of the cultural and creative community by working collectively to tackle the climate and ecological crisis. Over 10 years, a community committed to working together on climate and environmental action has emerged across Greater Manchester’s cultural sector. Initially we were a collection of often lone voices advocating for environmental change within organisations. Today we see organisations making climate action central to values, purpose and decisions. A collective approach, sharing challenges, our practice and learning, remain the most important things we can do, inspiring each other to go further and dig deeper.”"

• Non-profit organisation (i.e. pursues a particular social cause, e.g. schools, foundations, social movement)
• For-profit company
• Local government

• Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
• Raising awareness and/or political agenda-setting
• Facilitating dialogue and networking