Deadline: 15-Jan-23
The High Peak Community Council is inviting applications for the Climate Change Fund to provide small grants to community-based organisations taking measures locally to tackle the climate emergency.
High Peak Borough Council are keen to support activities and initiatives by the communities and groups across the District that contribute to the aims and objectives of its Climate Action Plan.
The aim is to mobilise the resources of local communities, encourage people to work together in a voluntary capacity and empower individuals and communities to take actions which: reduce local CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions; increase the ability of nature to absorb and store greenhouse gas emission; and build resilience in nature to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Funding Information
Small grants, usually between £200 and £500, are available to help support the delivery of their Climate Change Strategy. It will support practical measures such as tree planting and habitat improvement, educative actions to increase awareness and the skills needed to change and adapt lifestyles, green travel/transport schemes, energy saving in community buildings, local food projects and recycling and reuse projects.
Eligible Projects
Projects must be focused on achieving one or more of the following results:
- A more energy efficient building
- Greater awareness of energy efficiency measures and/or how to reduce energy costs
- Improving engagement with nature
- A contribution to active travel such as a new walking group or footpath improvements
- Practical support for electric vehicles such as a community EV charge point
- A new renewable energy project
- More trees or a community orchard
- Definable nature improvement including new conservation measures and/ or enhanced biodiversity
- Greater reduction, reuse or recycling of products that would otherwise go to waste
- A completed feasibility study or business plan for a project that meets one of the above criteria
Items that they can fund:
- Capital costs such as building work; buying and installing new equipment; materials including plants and trees;
- Revenue costs e.g. marketing and promotion of a new activity; training; room hire; refreshments; hiring of a marque; minibus hire; feasibility study or business planning
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply to the scheme if you are:
- An Unincorporated Association (a group set up with a constitution)
- A Registered Charity
- A CIC
- A CIO
- A new group (not yet constituted) AND if you are operating in, or benefiting, people or places within the local authority borough of High Peak.
Ineligible
The following cannot apply for a community grant:
- Individuals
- Private Businesses
- Any organisation that has political activity as one of its stated purposes i.e. as defined by the Charity Commission for England and Wales: any purpose directed at furthering the interests of any political party; or securing, or opposing, any change in the law or in the policy or decisions of central government, local authorities or other public bodies, whether in this country or abroad.
For more information, visit High Peak Community Council.