Engaging mainstream communities and nature action, through youth leadership, partnership working and creative practice, leading to community-led climate action and empowered and resilient communities
The Great Big Climate Circus has creativity, joy, risk-taking and experimentation at the heart, where we know these underpin mainstream engagement in new ideas and innovation. It is a rich programme of fun and enjoyable activities that could take a community in any direction of development, where people will explore multiple opportunities, come together over shared interests, have fun and learn from successes and failures together. For these reasons we are not prescribing the specific action but rather we inspire, set the scene, facilitate the joy, and enable communities with support, resources and expertise to go on the climate and nature action journey they chose.
Thanks to National Lottery players, The Great Big Climate Circus has received £1.49m over four years from The National Lottery Community Fund to develop a youth-led, creative climate action programme across Gloucestershire.
The project has now officially begun and is currently in a mobilisation phase, focused on recruitment, partnership working and co-design with young people.
Year one activity is planned to take place in Stroud, Dursley and Gloucester, with public events and creative activity launching from summer 2026. Further updates will be shared as the programme develops.
Please contact us to register interest in the project
