Reflections and top tips from the 2025 MDN Retail Programme.

Reflections and top tips from the 2025 MDN Retail Programme.

West Cheshire Museums – A sustainability festival including craft fairs, outdoor yoga, open mic nights, ‘climate ceilidhs’, clothes swaps, litter picks, pub quizzes, eco-storytelling, and a local circus troupe. Accompanied by a travelling Augmented Reality exhibition about plastic pollution.

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery – Creating a Sky Garden and rolling out Carbon Literacy Training.

Touchstones Rochdale – The Dippy on Tour exhibition, an installation of over 1000 knitted bees, and the start of climate action work.

Scarborough Museums & Galleries – A Space to Be – a community space with sustainability at its heart, including activities exploring nature, supporting discussion and debate.

REME Museum – Greening the Museum through creating a wildflower garden and ‘Dig for Victory’ vegetable patch.

Quaker Tapestry Museum – The Flood Tapestry Project, creating a way for the people to share their experience of the Storm Desmond flooding, and to celebrate community resilience.

National Football Museum (NFM) – One of the first museums in the country to officially become a Carbon Literacy Organisation. NFM is aiming to reduce their direct carbon emissions by 50% by 2025 through staff training, visitor engagement and new lighting.