List of climate, environment and related funding available in September 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
Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund for Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire or Moray: apply for up to £50,000 to support your eco-friendly project. Deadline: Mon 23 Sept 2024
Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 – Applications: For projects focused on energy, transport, waste, resilience, and community engagement. Grants from £2,000 to £25,000. Deadline: 30 Sept 2024
The Cruach Trust: grants of up to £2,000 for projects related to the natural environment, community, and music, with a preference for Scottish small and local charities. Deadline: 13 Sept 2024
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 Sept 9am to 1st Oct 12 noon 2024
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)
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: 30 Sept 2024
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 Sept 2024
Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust: grants up to £5000 to address Food Poverty. Applications that focus on: providing nutritious meals, food education, cooking skills, eliminating food waste. Deadline: 30 Sept 2024
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 Oct 2024
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 deadline: 1st Oct 12 noon
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
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: 27 Sept 2024
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
Forth Valley & Lomond (FVL) Youth Local Action Group (YLAG) Youth Impact Fund: empowering and supporting young people in their living, learning, and working, within the rural area of Forth Valley & Lomond, including grant sof up to £2000 for “connection to nature and climate action”. Deadline: 29th Sept 2024
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:
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
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
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 opens 1st Oct
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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