Climate Change is a global issue; the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions and Lifestyle Survey 2022 revealed three in four adults reported feeling worried about climate change, and the United Nations are working to tackle climate issues through Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action.

So far, four groups have been awarded more than £240,000 from the Creative Climate Action Fund, for Northamptonshire-based creative projects that recruit professional artists to build awareness around climate change and encourage local residents to make behavioural changes to protect the environment in Northamptonshire.

• Fermynwoods, an educational charity, have hosted four artist-led initiatives with the aim of helping the public to better understand the climate crisis and to imagine new possibilities for the future. They have also been funded to present a further two artistic interventions which will inform and encourage audiences to rethink their lifestyles.

• Sol Haven, a sustainable, permaculture community farm in Moulton, worked with artist and arts educator Elizabeth Tomos to run a series of community workshops addressing climate change, to engage participants and to eventually form a book.

• Brightwayz have recently been awarded funding for a project that will see them work with primary school-aged children in Kettering, blending street art, performance and climate education, to encourage them to talk to their families about sustainable travel options.

• NN Contemporary Art will launch their Climate Kitchen project, a two-year artist-led programme that explores the relationship between food, ecology, and survival and that will take place in the Northampton Rooms in central Northampton.