Keith and Paul were already blogging about their experiences, giving honest accounts of the challenges encountered and successes achieved as they sought to make historic buildings energy efficient, encourage behaviour change and reduce dependence on fossil fuels across National Trust properties in Wales.

Questions and comments from practitioners working in other charities and organisations poured in, and they quickly realised the need for a solution-sharing network that would link all these people together so they didn’t have to work in the dark. The network was to be called Fit for the Future, as that’s exactly what the organisations involved would be striving to become.  

Five years on, more than 400 individual practitioners from over 100 organisations are members of Fit for the Future. Its remit has expanded from an initial focus on energy to cover much wider sustainability issues, from climate-change adaptation to sustainable waste management.