List of climate, environment and related funding available in October 2024.
Funding available from Scottish Climate Action Hubs:
- Inverclyde Climate Action Network (up to £1500)
- Angus Climate Hub
- NESCAN (Covering Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
- Dumfries and Galloway Climate Hub (£500-£1000)
- Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (£1000-£20,000)
- East Lothian Climate Hub (£10,000) until 15/11
- Fife Climate Hub until 31/01/25
- Highlands and Islands Climate Hub (£500)
- Lanarkshire Climate Hub (up to £1000)
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
Our Local Nature Grants: up to £1000 to provide young people with an opportunity to take the lead on projects that involve their local nature and natural spaces. Deadline: 24 Oct
Historic Environment Scotland Heritage & Place Programme: area-based funding programme that aims to contribute to the development of vibrant and sustainable places in Scotland, through community-led regeneration of the historic environment. Deadline: 17 Jan 2025
National Lottery Film Festival and Screening Programme Fund: awards between £10k – £40k to support organisations looking to produce film festivals and screening programmes in Scotland for a public audience. Deadline: 13 Jan 2025
The Naturesave Trust Grants to Increase the Energy Efficiency of Buildings: aims to support charities, voluntary organisations, and businesses in enhancing building energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants and conserve water. Deadline: 31 Oct
Tesco Stronger Starts Grants: provides grants of up to £1500 to local projects from across the whole of Scotland, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.
Rewilding Britain Rewilding Challenge Fund: up to £100,000 per year to the rewilding project which shows the maximum potential to work with others to scale up rewilding on land and/or at sea. Deadline: 11 Oct 2024
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)
The Matthew Good Foundation – Grants for Good Fund: The aim is to support those 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. Next deadline: 15 Dec 2024
National Lottery Community Fund – Climate Action Fund: open until end of 2024
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 assessed monthly closing on 5 Feb 2025
International Tree Foundation’s UK Community Tree Planting Programme: Eligible uses include purchasing trees and materials, organising events, and educational activities. Deadline: 13 Dec
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 Nov 2024 and Feb 2025)
Woodland Trust free trees to schools and communities: they make two deliveries a year, in March and November. Woodland Trust are currently taking applications for tree packs to be delivered in March 2025
Foyle Foundation Small Grants Scheme: Grants of up to £10,000 are available to support small, grassroots and local charities currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community across the UK. Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
Screwfix Foundation Grants: up to £5,000 available for projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need in the UK. Applications are reviewed every quarter. Next deadline: 10 Nov 2024
ONGOING FUNDS / ROLLING DEADLINES:
Highlands and Islands Environment Foundation (HIEF): grants of up to £15,000 to community-led projects across the Highlands and Islands that protect and restore nature.
Robertson Trust Wee Grants: funding of up to £5,000 to support organisations with an annual income of under £30,000 who are focused on building strong communities in places which have higher rates of poverty and trauma, or who are working with certain groups of people who are at a higher risk of experiencing poverty and trauma.
Robertson Trust Transport Grants: £5K-20K per year for 1-3 years. By supporting the costs of a vehicle, or transport costs more broadly, the fund aims to help charities deliver their services and remove barriers for people and places affected by poverty and trauma.
STV Green Fund: offering £1m of STV advertising airtime to Scottish businesses championing sustainability
Stobart Sustainability Fund: funding is available for projects that address climate change, reduce carbon emissions or protect the environment
The Craignish Trust fund: focuses on environmental and human rights issues. Applications can be made year round
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
The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation: supports charities and constituted groups which work in Scotland’s North-east and Highlands with awards from £100 up to £25,000 for capital expenditure, including for Conservation and the Environment
Hugh Fraser Foundation: supports charities active in a number of sectors including environment and education. Trustees meet in March, June, September and December. The cut-off-date for applications is normally the beginning of the month preceding the month of the meeting date.
The Cycle Access Fund: supports those least likely to have access to a bike and provides capital grants to organisations
Volunteering Matters Action Earth Grant: grants 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.
Garfield Weston Foundation: support charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK, including welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith. Applications of up to £100k ongoing
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
Benefact Group Movement for Good Awards: Nominate a charity to be entered into a £1000 draw
SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund: small grants up to £2,000 to projects enhancing communities across Scotland who commit to deliver a project that meets at least one of five criteria, including: Sustainability and the environment; Employability and career skills; Social inclusion; Technology and digital inclusion; Improving the local community. Quarterly deadlines, next: 29 Nov 2024
Crowdbound: 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
The Mushroom Trust: supports the creation and improvement of greenspaces throughout Scotland, and in particular Edinburgh/Lothians. Grants typically up to £5,000. Deadlines annually on 31st March
HDH Wills Charitable Trust: grants of £1-2k to charities which focus on the conservation of wildlife/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
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
DPO Centre Charity and Community Fund: funding of up to £10,000 to provide access to data protection consultancy services. Rolling deadlines, next one 30 Nov
FCC Scottish Action Fund: grants 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 Sept and closes 20 Nov 2024
PFAF Food Forest Fund: small grants of between £1000 to £3000 to help new food forest projects get started
Scottish Education And Action For Development Fund (SEAD): 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
Material Focus – 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
The Nineveh Charitable Trust: UK based schools and not for profit organisations can apply for funding 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
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