Since its inception in 2014, Tandem Collective has worked as an arts collective with sustainability at its core. The Collective was first and foremost a CAG (Community Action Group) and remains part of the pioneering CAG network.

One outcome of Tandem’s work, born in 2020, was the concept of a Green Arts Charter for Oxfordshire that would support Oxford’s cultural sector to become more sustainable. The concept was inspired by the amazing work of the Manchester Arts Sustainability Team, the Green Arts Initiative of Creative Carbon Scotland and the Good Food Oxford Network and Charter. Tandem’s collaboration with Rosa Thomas and the team at Fusion Arts allowed the charter concept to develop and flourish.

On 14th January 2021, at the Green Arts Charter Soft Launch, over 50 artists and individuals from Oxfordshire’s cultural organisations came together to brainstorm how we, as a sector, can work to create a more ecological city and county.

We discussed how the collaborative creation of a Green Arts Charter might help us, as a network, achieve this. The Green Arts Oxfordshire Network was born.

The long term aim of the Green Arts project is to support and inspire organisations and artists to meet their ecological goals and work together to help create a more ecological sector and county. The network aims to act as a hub to link up artists and organisations who share these aims, and also to connect them with environmental movements, both locally and nationally.