The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.
Funding for community climate action
Together for Our Planet, a new funding programme from The National Lottery Community Fund has opened to support communities across the UK to take action on climate change. The £2.5 million fund aims to build on COP26 to engage communities in the conference and inspire positive climate action.
The programme can fund grants of £1,000 – £10,000 to support local community projects covering areas such as food, transport, energy, waste and consumption, and the natural environment.
Priorities for the programme are:
- people and communities hit hardest by climate change
- people and communities who are starting to think about taking climate action
- groups who have not received funding from us before
- groups who do not have a current award with us
- smaller organisations with an annual turnover of under £100,000.
Applications close at 5pm on 18 November 2021 and they expect to make around 400 – 500 awards through the programme.