One for local authorities, and one for community organisations.
Two new resources have been launched to assist groups working with local communities to understand how to make their neighbourhoods more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
Glasgow is already feeling the impacts of climate change. This includes wetter, milder winters, more summer heatwaves, and more frequent, heavier downpours. This means neighbourhoods will need to look and feel very different if they are to flourish in the future.
Change will need to be collaborative, with communities having an equal seat at the table and given real power to drive forward the changes they know are needed.
Through Creative Climate Futures, communities across Glasgow are collaborating with decision-makers, technical experts, and artists to understand what climate change means for their neighbourhoods, imagine climate ready futures, and speed up local action to make these a reality.
As the project reaches the end of its second year, two guides have been launched, which are freely available to download from the Verture website.
The first is a toolkit aimed at local authorities. This has been developed in collaboration with local authorities and embedded artists from Creative Climate Futures.
The purpose of the tool is to take learnings from Creative Climate Futures and other Verture community projects, to give support to local authority staff who want guidance on how to design engagement with their communities on climate change and/or sustainability topics.
Alex Cameron-Smith, the climate resilience manager at Verture who led the co-development of the toolkit, said that any resources created should be filling gaps and meeting needs.
“I can’t wait to start using it with people - we’ve already had requests for the toolkit from Councils and community groups across Scotland who are keen to collaborate more effectively on local climate resilience.
“The co-design process ensured the resource is meeting a need within local authorities and it was a pleasure to work with such engaged and enthusiastic stakeholders.”
The second guide is aimed at local community organisations who want to learn from Creative Climate Futures – the successes, the challenges, the surprises. The guide is an extension of the dynamic project diary, which is updated on Substack, acting as a real-time reporting mechanism for the project.
Andrew Williams is the project manager for Creative Climate Futures. He explained the rationale behind the guide for local organisations.
“It’s not intended as a template, or a fixed recipe for success. Every community project will be different. But we have learned so much from Creative Climate Futures that we knew we had to find a way of sharing that knowledge. We hope the guide for local organisations is helpful, inspiring, and easy to dip in and out of.”
Both guides will be updated over time, as the project develops over the year ahead. Creative Climate Futures is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund until the end of March 2026.
