Deadline: 18-Jul-25
The Westminster Climate Fund is a competitive grant funding programme, utilising the S106 carbon offset payments, to support the decarbonisation of Westminster.
The fund provides financial support to projects that contribute to the decarbonisation of Westminster and promote environmental sustainability. The fund is particularly focused on areas such as energy generation, retrofitting, low-carbon heat, behaviour change, and feasibility planning.
Categories
- There are four categories of funding:
- City decarbonisation
- For organisations delivering significant carbon reductions through changes to buildings, heating systems, or transport.
- Eligible organisations include businesses, cultural organisations and public sector bodies
- Community energy and retrofit
- Supports community-led energy reduction and retrofit schemes.
- Aims to reduce energy bills, promote local energy ownership, and support organisational resilience in the voluntary and community sector.
- Greener living
- Small grants for grassroots community led action.
- Funds local environmental initiatives that engage and empower communities, especially underrepresented groups.
- Feasibility
- Supports pre-implementation studies to help organisations plan high-impact decarbonisation or energy generation projects.
- Grants capped at £50,000 (exceptions may apply).
- City decarbonisation
Eligible Projects
- Projects that deliver measures leading to significant carbon reduction
- Projects that support your organisation’s carbon reduction and sustainability goals.
- Projects that deliver cost-effective carbon savings (assessed on the total capital cost of the bid against the expected lifetime carbon savings).
- Projects that have appropriate evidence to justify delivery, including feasibility results, project design and quotes.
- Projects that align to the council’s Local Area Energy plan trajectory
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is open to a range of organisations, including:
- Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE)
- Community Interest organisations
- Businesses, subject to criteria, and larger organisations must be signatories to the Sustainable City Charter
- Cultural institutions and public sector bodies
- Projects must be based in Westminster
- Projects cannot last longer than 3 years
- Projects in categories 1 and 2 must commit to post-project monitoring with the council for a minimum of 5 years.
- Projects should be ready to commence upon confirmation of funding approval
- Applicants must be a registered organisation (E.G. on company’s house or charity commission) and have been in operation for at least 2 years
- Applicants must have a bank account
- Applicants will need to comply with the council’s subsidy control guidance
- If your organisation has been the liable party (payee) in a S106 Carbon Offset Fund agreement, you cannot apply to the fund
For more information, visit Westminster City Council.
