Funding for community climate action
Posted on 2 September 2021 by Christie McAlpine in Funding Community Grants Environment Climate
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.