Deadline: 27-Jun-24
The Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere is accepting applications from community-led projects and groups who are leading on climate activity in their locale.
The D&G Climate Hub is part of the Scottish Government’s new national network of Community Climate Action Hubs. Climate Hubs are committed to supporting community climate action on a regional basis through funding and resources embedded in their local communities.
The D&G Climate Hub is hosted by Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere. The Hub is designed to support Dumfries and Galloway communities to adapt to climate change and make a just transition toward net zero.
The D&G Climate Hub is facilitating a seed fund to help community groups in Dumfries & Galloway deliver climate action in their local area through grass-roots projects and events. The Seed Fund could be used to initiate new ideas or support on-going projects.
This funding is designed to support community climate action. Typically, community climate action includes food growing & sharing, biodiversity improvements, sustainable travel initiatives, repair cafes, energy saving ideas but there are no limits as to what they would consider to be community climate action – so please get in touch to discuss your idea!
Aims
- The D&G Climate Hub aims to:
- Support local climate action via seed funding
- Support community groups to access further funding and sign posting to additional resources
- Map existing climate action activity
- Identify barriers to local climate action
- Support communities to design and deliver climate action projects
- Reach out to communities with little or no previous involvement in climate action and identify ways of enabling them to participate
- Foster peer to peer learning, networking and sharing of experience
- Encourage co-ordination of activity and collaboration between community groups, and other local bodies
- Support communities to embed climate action in Local Place Plans
Funding Information
- The Seed Fund could be used to kick-start new ideas or support on-going projects, and is available as a Step Fund (up to £500) or a Jump Fund (up to £1000).
- The second round of seed funding is now open to support community climate action in D&G with grants of up to £1,000. The allocated funds will support climate action projects and events running from July 2024 to February 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- They encourage applications to the Seed Fund for projects that meet at least one of these criteria:
- Support biodiversity improvements
- Raise awareness and build climate action capacity
- Support a Just Transition towards a Net Zero Dumfries & Galloway
- Support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
- Support collaborative working with others
- Support the sharing of learning and skills
- Contribute to long term positive change
- Encourage those not currently engaged in climate action to get involved
- Build resilience to the effects of climate change
Criteria
- Projects must be delivered within Dumfries and Galloway Local Authority area, by groups based within D&G.
- Applications must be through a recognised group with their own bank account or partnered with an organisation that has such a facility.
- Projects must be as sustainable as possible – please note they will not fund any single use items.
- Successful projects will be supported by the Climate Officers through to completion.
- The mandatory completion report must include a detailed, itemised list of project spend and must be accompanied by evidence of spend in the form of receipts/invoices. For time-based fees, there should be a detailed recording of dates and times spent working on the project/event.
- It is possible that successful applications may be invited to share their experiences through case studies or attendance at Climate Hub events.
For more information, visit Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere.