The Commissioner
Arts Council of Wales (ACW)
The Arts Council of Wales is an independent charity, established by Royal Charter in 1994. It is also a Welsh Government Sponsored Body and is the official body that funds and develops the arts in Wales. It is the official distributor of National Lottery arts funding in Wales.
The Context
In September 2020, Natural Resources Wales and Arts Council of Wales signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining a shared vision for future partnership working. The purpose of the partnership is to help to cultivate the relationship between the arts and the natural environment, as part of a shared commitment to improve the environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. This partnership has formulated into the Creative Nature Programme, which has delivered two phases of activity in 2022 and 2023-25 including the Future Wales Fellowship and ACW’s Plan for Climate Justice and the Arts.
ACW and NRW have set out a transition year for the Creative Nature Programme in 2025-26, which will focus on scoping out the possibility of a ‘climate justice and nature connection consortium’ of environmental and land manager organisations, and reviewing options for the structure, constitution and funding of the group.
This invitation to tender is for a Service Provider to undertake the following actions:
- design and deliver four meetings of the ‘climate justice and nature connection consortium’ in 2025-26, and
- deliver a scoping report that explores potential structural models and fundraising models for the work of the consortium beyond 2025-26.
The scoping exercise of the Climate Justice and Nature Connection consortium 2025-26 can be carried out by either an organisation or freelancer(s) with proven experience of fundraising and delivering research or scoping exercises to inform the development of new partnership initiatives.
Please read the Invitation to Tender information below, and submit your tender through Sell2Wales here by midday 29 July 2025.
Clarification requests can be submitted via the Sell2Wales portal and up until midday 22 July 2025. In order to ensure equality of treatment of Potential Providers, we intend to publish the questions and clarifications raised by Potential Providers together with our responses (but not the source of the questions) through the Sell2Wales portal. The portal will alert Potential Providers of any updates.
Clarification messages will be sent via the Sell2Wales portal.