Sustainability

Theatres, like all public buildings, have an impact on the environment and we must ensure that we as a sector rapidly reduce the impact of our business in order to respond to the climate emergency.

Environmental Principles

Theatres Trust has committed to five environmental principles to reshape our work and help to influence and improve the sector’s sustainability.

Theatre Green Book initiative

Theatre Green Book provides guidance for sustainable theatre will focus on first steps: what everyone can and should be doing to change their practice now, but it will also map out paths ahead, indicating what further steps might be needed to reach a sustainable future quickly. Theatres Trust was a founding partner for the Theatre Green Book and acted as Secretariat until it became an independent charity in 2025. We continue to support Theatre Green's work.

Theatre Improvement Scheme in association with the Wolfson Foundation

It was initially imagined that the Theatre Improvement Scheme would have a different theme each year but there was such high demand in the second year when it was environmental sustainability, that this has become the focus of the scheme.

Initially running until 2020, we were delighted that the Wolfson Foundation renewed the partnership for a further three years, enabling us to suppport more theatres to become more sustainabile. 

Find out more about the Theatre Improvement Scheme.

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