List of climate, environment and related funding available in August 2024.
Funding available from Scottish Climate Action Hubs:
- Angus Climate Hub (£1,000-£20,000)
- NESCAN (Covering Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire) (£500-£3000, and further funding available through a participatory budgeting fund)
- Dumfries and Galloway Climate Hub (£500-£1000)
- Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (£1000-£20,000)
- East Lothian Climate Hub (£10,000)
- Fife Climate Hub (£500)
- Highlands and Islands Climate Hub (£500)
- Lanarkshire Climate Hub (£500-£1000)
- Moray Climate Action Network (£200-£2000)
GENERAL FUNDING
Community Learning Exchange: An opportunity for peer to peer learning through the exchange of ideas and the sharing of common solutions. The aim is to encourage meeting new people with similar interests; gaining new insights and perspectives on shared challenges; and coming away armed with new ideas and approaches. The grant will cover up to 100% of the costs of a learning exchange by members of one community to another community project up to a limit of 13 hours at £35 per hour for planning and delivery. Find out more.
Youth Climate Action Fund: Are you a young person aged 15 to 24? Do you have an idea for a climate project? Would you like grant funding to deliver your project? £800-£3,900 per grant available. Deadline: Sunday 25 August 2024. Find out more.
Rewilding Britain – Rewilding Innovation Fund: The fund provides up to £15,000 to support innovative rewilding projects across Britain. Projects must b part of Rewilding Britain’s Rewilding Network (applicants may join at the point of application), working to apply the rewilding principles to benefit nature, climate and people. Deadline for this round is 30 August 2024. Find out more
SSEN Powering Communities to Net Zero fund: support projects that enhance community facilities, services and communication specifically to mitigate the impact of, or support the local response to a significant emergency such as extended power loss or severe weather events or climate change. Grants of up to £15,000. The fund is split into two categories; community-led physical and environmental resilience, and Low Carbon Technology (LCTs). Find out more.
Dundee Climate Fund 3.0: For projects focused on energy, transport, waste, resilience, and community engagement. With available grants ranging from £2,000 to £25,000, this fund supports both new initiatives and the continuation of impactful projects. Deadline September 30 2024. Find out more.
The Matthew Good Foundation – Grants for Good Fund: The aim is to support small charities, not-for-profit groups, and social entrepreneurs who are passionate about making a difference for people, their communities, and the environment. The Fund will share £15,000 between five shortlisted projects every three months. Deadline for the next funding round is 15 September 2024. Find out more.
Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust: grants to address Food Poverty. Applications that focus on: – providing nutritious meals – food education – cooking skills – eliminating food waste. Reopens 1st to 31st September. Find out more.
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Grants to Promote and Secure Better and Safer Roads: Funded activity includes courses leading to traffic engineering and transport planning, research projects and programmes or schemes to improve the highway network and the roadside environment, such as roadside parks and open spaces. Typical grants between £5k and £30k. Deadline 4 October. Find out more.
People’s Postcode Trust: between £500 and £25k to support projects in several areas including supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality, improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency, improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors. Round 3: 24th September 9am to 1st October 12 noon. Find out more
National Lottery Community Fund – Climate Action Fund: open until end of 2024. Find out more.
ArtRoots Funding: grants to make artistic or aesthetic improvements to traffic-free paths that lead to increased awareness and usage of the National Cycle Network. Grants of £2,500 are available, although grants of £6,000 may be considered if applicants can demonstrate that the higher funding award would significantly impact the outcome and achieve a greater increase in new active travel journeys. Deadline: 15 October 2024. Find out more.
Sustrans – Love Your Network Grant: supports communities living near the National Cycle Network to help maintain, improve, and enhance the spaces along local paths, as well as supporting wildlife conservation. Funding will take the form of equipment and training bundles of up to £1,000 in value rather than money. Applications will be assessed monthly from August 2024 closing on 5 February 2025. Find out more.
Fat Beehive Foundation: provides small grants for websites and digital products to small UK charities. Grants up to £2500 for environmental protection or climate change mitigation. Deadline Friday 27 Sept. Find out more
Energy Saving Trust – Plugged in Communities Grant Fund: Grants of up to £75,000 for zero emission community vehicles. Find out more.
Growing Food Together Fund Greenspace Scotland: Parks4Life Community Fund Grants up to £1,500 are available for community groups and voluntary organisations for a variety of projects aiming to improve, promote or develop community use of a park or greenspace. Deadline: 30 August. Find out more.
Tree Council – Branching Out Fund: grants of between £250 and £2,500 to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025). Find out more.
ONGOING FUNDS / ROLLING DEADLINES:
British Ecological Society – Outreach and Engagement Grants: up to £2000 funding to promote and engage the public with the science of ecology. Find out more.
The Craignish Trust fund: focuses on environmental and human rights issues. Applications can be made year round. Find out more.
Stobart Sustainability Fund: funding is available for projects that address climate change, reduce carbon emissions or protect the environment. Find out more.
The Ian Findlay Path Fund: Funding of between £10,000 – £100,000 towards the improvement of local path networks within and between communities, making it easier for people to choose to walk wheel or cycle for everyday journeys. Find out more.
The Cycle Access Fund: supports those least likely to have access to a bike and provides capital grants to organisations. Find out more.
Volunteering Matters Action Earth Grant: between £50 and £250 to run environmental activities in Scotland’s green spaces in built-up places and centres of population and their surroundings. Nature grants to support volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in practical outdoor activities in Scotland’s cities, towns and villages. Find out more.
Garfield Weston Foundation: We support a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith. Applications of up to £100k ongoing, Find out more.
Schroder Charity Trust: makes grants of up to £5,000 towards core and project costs to charities registered in the UK for work under several categories including Strengthening Communities and Environment and Conservation. Find out more.
The Prospectory – Idea Fund: “I’ve got an idea” is a micro fund for either individuals or small groups or organisations who have a novel technical idea which they want to try out. The fund offers grants ranging from £250 to £3k. Find out more.
Benefact Group Movement for Good Awards: Nominate a charity to be entered into a £1000 draw. In December, 120 charities will receive a £1,000 grant, spread across 12 days. Deadline to be included for current draw: 19th December 2024. Find out more.
CARES: The Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) supports communities to engage with, participate in, and benefit from the energy transition to net zero emissions. Find out more.
SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund: Community Fund designed to provide small grants to projects enhancing communities across Scotland. The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund will award grants up to a maximum value of £2,000 to organisations who commit to deliver a project that meets at least one of five criteria, namely: Sustainability and the environment; Employability and career skills; Social inclusion; Technology and digital inclusion; Improving the local community. Quarterly deadlines, next: 30th August 2024. Find out more.
Crowdbound: A new UK crowdfunding and crowdpublishing platform that exists to support books that cover important social or environmental themes, by authors who come from disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds. It also seeks to support a range of projects linked to social inclusion and environmental sustainability, which would otherwise struggle to raise funding for their work. Find out more.
The Mushroom Trust: supports the creation and improvement of greenspaces throughout Scotland, and in particular Edinburgh and the Lothians. Grants typically up to £5,000. Deadlines annually on 31st March. Find out more.
Scotmid Co-operative – Community Connect Initiative: awards of up to £15,000 to deliver projects and initiatives that benefit communities in areas close to Scotmid Co-operatives and Semichem stores in Scotland. Next deadline for applications is 21 August 2024. More info here.
HDH Wills Charitable Trust: Small Grants of £1-2k to charities which focus on the conservation of wildlife and the environment. Also the Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust supports conservation and maintenance for the benefit of the public of the natural environment and its indigenous woodland flora and fauna with particular reference to rural areas. Grants of £1-5k. Applications ongoing. More info here.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: aims to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. The Foundation’s grants support organisations’ core or project costs, including staff salaries and overheads. It also provides unrestricted funding for charities. Minimum grant application £30k. Applications ongoing. More info here.
DPO Centre Charity and Community Fund: funding of up to £10,000 to provide access to data protection consultancy services. Rolling deadlines, next one: 1st November. More info here.
FCC Scottish Action Fund: provides grants of between £2,000 and £40,000 for the following types of projects eligible under Scottish Landfill Communities Fund (SLCF): Land Reclamation, Community Recycling, Public Amenities and Parks, Biodiversity, Historic Buildings. Next round opens 18 September 2024 and closes at 5.00pm on 20 November 2024. More info here.
PFAF Food Forest Fund: small grants of between £1000 to £3000 to help new food forest projects get started. More info here.
Scottish Education And Action For Development Fund (SEAD): funds small grants of typically £250 to small community groups and individuals who are looking to run or kick start campaigns that engage with people, have a demonstrable impact and aims to link local issues with those being experienced by others around the world. More info here.
Volunteering Matters Action Earth: grants of between £50 and £250 for volunteer groups across Scotland to respond to the ongoing nature and climate crises and support practical outdoor activities in local communities. More info here.
Material Focus – Electricals Recycling Fund: The Electricals Recycling Fund supports projects that build on existing methods or test new, creative and practical ways of recycling household electricals. Grants of up to £100k. Find out more.
The Nineveh Charitable Trust: UK based schools and not for profit organisations can apply for funding to the Nineveh Charitable Trust for a broad range of projects and activities that promote a better understanding of the environment and countryside, whilst facilitating improved access, education and research. Find out more.
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