We are a climate hope organisation
Our stories shape how we think and act, they define us.
Climate change is present tense - it has happened and continues. The Tyne at Corbridge dropped to ankle-bone height this summer, and Hedgehogs are going extinct.
We can limit how much damage is done to our planet, to our home – but only if all of us pitch in. We know a lot about the problems – poison in the air, the water, our food – and we can all do something about it.
Scaring people and telling them what they’re doing wrong doesn’t work. When we get scared and overwhelmed, we shut down.
Aren’t you exhausted hearing about the different ways the world will burn? Has it helped you?
Lets be hopeful. Lets play and experiment with climate imaginings, and find what action can be for each of us.
We can create interesting and hopeful futures that people will pursue.
We need to help more people and communities to imagine their climate future. To play and experiment with climate change ideas.
That’s what we do.
We run projects, resources, and meet-ups to help more people to think and talk about cliamte change in hopeful, playful ways.
Action through hope
Hope through creativity
Our programme includes…
Making community-designed sculptures grown from fungus.
Volunteer-led meals exploring our food futures
Immersive explorations of British Carbon Heritage, through sound and theatre
Our Values
Good Ancestors
Global warming and climate change will play out for thousands of years. What we do (or don’t do) right now will echo and echo, louder and louder for each generation that comes after us. This means we are powerful, and we are privileged. Let’s honour that, let’s be good ancestors.
Hopeful Action
Fear isn’t a good motivator. People have lots of different drivers, different things they find rewarding. We can make climate action inspiring and accessible. That is the best way to mushroom climate action.
Creativity and playfulness are key
Creative work (books, theatre, music, art…) help us make sense of the world. We feel good art on a deeper level than thought. We can sit alongside people we disagree with, both enjoy and come away changed by it. Creative work will help us explore our climate futures.
Non-ego
The need to feel right, to win the argument, to get credit…there are a lot of unhelpful (and very human!) emotions and drivers around climate work.
We work at believing that Threads is the least important part of everything we do. We want the focus to be on communities we work with.
Long-term Commitment
When we offer to work with a community, we commit to a long-term relationship lasting many years. Proper impact takes time and care and collaboration.
Curiosity
We think that being a Good Ancestor requires curiousity. Curiosity pointed at the difficult and uncomfortable stuff - including how we’re doing, what we could be getting better at.
All our best work and learning comes from the work that is curiosity.
Threads in the Ground was created with support of New Writing North
We are very grateful to the funders and supporters who enable us to do what we do!
