Charlecote Park, Wellesbourne, WarwickshireNational Trust Chedham’s Yard, Wellesbourne, WarwickshireSmall Independent Compton Verney Art Gallery, Compton Verney, WarwickshireLarge Independent Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry, West MidlandsLarge Independent Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, WarwickshireLarge Independent House on Crutches Museum Collection, Bishop’s Castle, ShropshireSmall Independent Marton Museum of County Bygones, Marton, Rugby, WarwickshireSmall Independent Northgate Museum, Bridgnorth, ShropshireSmall Independent Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Nuneaton and Bedworth, WarwickshireLocal Authority Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, Rugby, WarwickshireLocal Authority The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield, StaffordshireLocal Authority Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-AvonLarge Independent Shugborough Hall County Museum, Stafford, StaffordshireLocal Authority/National Trust To build mutual support and knowledge exchange (Green Knowledge Cafes). To have a shared target of reductions. To get some deals as a group they might not get as individuals.

It’s all a bit of a waste! Some museums have already started taking actions to change, others are still at the beginning stage. Each museum has agreed to: Take monthly readings of your energy usage and bills This will help you know when your actions are making a difference and the figures and information will be shared between us all at regular meetings. Sort out a simple sustainability Policy and Action plan This will help stop your changes being ignored, ‘de-prioritised’ or left on the shelf. Set out some goals for the duration of the programme - and beyond. eg we aim to reduce our bills/CO2/waste by ….20% by March 2015 £586, on energy bills every year 1,311 tonnes of CO 2 Which is the equivalent of digitising nearly 59,000 objects from our collections AND providing 49,000 learning session places. Which is 28 baby elephants worth of CO2 a year, or the equivalent of travelling 1.4 times round the equator in an average petrol car!

Free lighting reviews. Created a simple ‘energy savings calculator’ to show return on investment

Brought Energy Action Group on board eg. Shakespeare Birthplace reduce KwH unit costs by 40% Sustainability West Midlands Local Authority Energy Managers Group – schools and other building programmes National Trust Making use of existing networks and support outside of the museum world:

Lessons With help, tiny places can translate what the big guys do. Monitor, monitor monitor. Don’t assume that anyone really has a grip of their usage or their bills. Spend time with them making sure they do it - should be anymore difficult than basic collection care housekeeping. It’s a management issue! In business terms we are tiny – individual access to finance – eg through LEPs, euro funding for capital change is still difficult