diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/ScaffolderPlugin.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/ScaffolderPlugin.ts
index b884802a1f..57d7971f50 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/ScaffolderPlugin.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/ScaffolderPlugin.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export type ScaffolderPluginOptions = {
   taskWorkers?: number;
   taskBroker?: TaskBroker;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -101,7 +102,12 @@ export const scaffolderPlugin = createBackendPlugin({
         httpRouter,
         catalogClient,
       }) {
-        const { additionalTemplateFilters, taskBroker, taskWorkers } = options;
+        const {
+          additionalTemplateFilters,
+          taskBroker,
+          taskWorkers,
+          additionalTemplateGlobals,
+        } = options;
         const log = loggerToWinstonLogger(logger);
 
         const actions = options.actions || [
@@ -112,6 +118,7 @@ export const scaffolderPlugin = createBackendPlugin({
             reader,
             config,
             additionalTemplateFilters,
+            additionalTemplateGlobals,
           }),
         ];
 
@@ -130,6 +137,7 @@ export const scaffolderPlugin = createBackendPlugin({
           taskBroker,
           taskWorkers,
           additionalTemplateFilters,
+          additionalTemplateGlobals,
         });
         httpRouter.use(router);
       },
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/lib/templating/SecureTemplater.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/lib/templating/SecureTemplater.ts
index e82620a90d..1b8e201845 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/lib/templating/SecureTemplater.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/lib/templating/SecureTemplater.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ const { render, renderCompat } = (() => {
     }
   }
 
+  if (typeof additionalTemplateGlobals !== 'undefined') {
+    for (const [globalName, globalFn] of Object.entries(additionalTemplateGlobals)) {
+      env.addGlobal(globalName, (...args) => JSON.parse(globalFn(...args)));
+    }
+  }
+
   let uninstallCompat = undefined;
 
   function render(str, values) {
@@ -107,6 +113,7 @@ export interface SecureTemplaterOptions {
 
   /* Extra user-provided nunjucks filters */
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 }
 
 export type SecureTemplateRenderer = (
@@ -116,8 +123,12 @@ export type SecureTemplateRenderer = (
 
 export class SecureTemplater {
   static async loadRenderer(options: SecureTemplaterOptions = {}) {
-    const { parseRepoUrl, cookiecutterCompat, additionalTemplateFilters } =
-      options;
+    const {
+      parseRepoUrl,
+      cookiecutterCompat,
+      additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals,
+    } = options;
     const sandbox: Record<string, any> = {};
 
     if (parseRepoUrl) {
@@ -134,7 +145,19 @@ export class SecureTemplater {
           ]),
       );
     }
-
+    if (additionalTemplateGlobals) {
+      console.log(additionalTemplateGlobals, '!!!!!!!!!!!');
+      sandbox.additionalTemplateGlobals = Object.fromEntries(
+        Object.entries(additionalTemplateGlobals)
+          .filter(([_, filterFunction]) => !!filterFunction)
+          .map(([filterName, filterFunction]) => [
+            filterName,
+            (...args: JsonValue[]) => JSON.stringify(filterFunction(...args)),
+          ]),
+      );
+    }
+    console.log(sandbox.additionalTemplateGlobals, 'HUH?');
+    console.log(sandbox.additionalTemplateFilters, 'HUH?');
     const vm = new VM({ sandbox });
 
     const nunjucksSource = await fs.readFile(
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/createBuiltinActions.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/createBuiltinActions.ts
index fcddf127e2..7581189411 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/createBuiltinActions.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/createBuiltinActions.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export interface CreateBuiltInActionsOptions {
    * Template Manifests and also template skeleton files when using `fetch:template`.
    */
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ export const createBuiltinActions = (
     catalogClient,
     config,
     additionalTemplateFilters,
+    additionalTemplateGlobals,
   } = options;
 
   const githubCredentialsProvider: GithubCredentialsProvider =
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ export const createBuiltinActions = (
       integrations,
       reader,
       additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals,
     }),
     createPublishGerritAction({
       integrations,
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
index 1ead7ebcd6..47a85df9ca 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
@@ -39,8 +39,14 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
   reader: UrlReader;
   integrations: ScmIntegrations;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 }) {
-  const { reader, integrations, additionalTemplateFilters } = options;
+  const {
+    reader,
+    integrations,
+    additionalTemplateFilters,
+    additionalTemplateGlobals,
+  } = options;
 
   return createTemplateAction<{
     url: string;
@@ -218,6 +224,7 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
       const renderTemplate = await SecureTemplater.loadRenderer({
         cookiecutterCompat: ctx.input.cookiecutterCompat,
         additionalTemplateFilters,
+        additionalTemplateGlobals,
       });
 
       for (const location of allEntriesInTemplate) {
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/dryrun/createDryRunner.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/dryrun/createDryRunner.ts
index f2c3c13509..36a5a3728a 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/dryrun/createDryRunner.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/dryrun/createDryRunner.ts
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ export type TemplateTesterCreateOptions = {
   actionRegistry: TemplateActionRegistry;
   workingDirectory: string;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/NunjucksWorkflowRunner.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/NunjucksWorkflowRunner.ts
index 009ea1357d..eb6683e32b 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/NunjucksWorkflowRunner.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/NunjucksWorkflowRunner.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ type NunjucksWorkflowRunnerOptions = {
   integrations: ScmIntegrations;
   logger: winston.Logger;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 };
 
 type TemplateContext = {
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ export class NunjucksWorkflowRunner implements WorkflowRunner {
     );
 
     const { integrations } = this.options;
+    console.log(this.options.additionalTemplateGlobals, '@@@%%%%%%%%%%@@@');
     const renderTemplate = await SecureTemplater.loadRenderer({
       // TODO(blam): let's work out how we can deprecate this.
       // We shouldn't really need to be exposing these now we can deal with
@@ -197,6 +199,7 @@ export class NunjucksWorkflowRunner implements WorkflowRunner {
         return parseRepoUrl(url, integrations);
       },
       additionalTemplateFilters: this.options.additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals: this.options.additionalTemplateGlobals,
     });
 
     try {
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/TaskWorker.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/TaskWorker.ts
index 9defd71c49..bd0e6a6dd4 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/TaskWorker.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/tasks/TaskWorker.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export type CreateWorkerOptions = {
   workingDirectory: string;
   logger: Logger;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ export class TaskWorker {
       integrations,
       workingDirectory,
       additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals,
     } = options;
 
     const workflowRunner = new NunjucksWorkflowRunner({
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ export class TaskWorker {
       logger,
       workingDirectory,
       additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals,
     });
 
     return new TaskWorker({
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
index 28dd1ca413..592e0be79d 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ export interface RouterOptions {
   taskWorkers?: number;
   taskBroker?: TaskBroker;
   additionalTemplateFilters?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
+  additionalTemplateGlobals?: Record<string, TemplateFilter>;
   identity?: IdentityApi;
 }
 
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ export async function createRouter(
     taskWorkers,
     scheduler,
     additionalTemplateFilters,
+    additionalTemplateGlobals,
   } = options;
 
   const logger = parentLogger.child({ plugin: 'scaffolder' });
@@ -207,6 +209,7 @@ export async function createRouter(
       logger,
       workingDirectory,
       additionalTemplateFilters,
+      additionalTemplateGlobals,
     });
     workers.push(worker);
   }
@@ -219,6 +222,7 @@ export async function createRouter(
         reader,
         config,
         additionalTemplateFilters,
+        additionalTemplateGlobals,
       });
 
   actionsToRegister.forEach(action => actionRegistry.register(action));
@@ -230,6 +234,7 @@ export async function createRouter(
     logger,
     workingDirectory,
     additionalTemplateFilters,
+    additionalTemplateGlobals,
   });
 
   router