Green Community Grants in the UK

Deadline: 20-Nov-22

The Dacorum Borough Council is seeking applications for its Green Community Grants to encourage and enable local groups to “think global and act local” whilst tackling environmental challenges.

Priorities

• The projects with the greatest impacts will be awarded the funding:
  • Energy and emissions
    • Making community buildings more energy efficient and/or implementing renewable energy technology that will consequently reduce carbon emissions from powering and/or heating.
    • Removing or capturing carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
  • Transport
    • Promoting active, healthy living by encouraging people to walk and cycle.
    • Reducing the need for cars
  • Biodiversity
    • Improving local biodiversity by supporting the creation, protection, enhancement, monitoring and/or management of sustainable green spaces.
    • Supporting specific significant species and/or habitats.
  • Waste and consumption
    • Reducing waste by enabling the local community to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’. Projects that focus on the areas higher up the waste hierarchy (reduce and reuse) will score more highly.
      • Please note that projects relating to litter picks and fly tipping will not be funded as these activities do not address the waste hierarchy.
    • Encouraging and/or enabling others to consume more sustainably – for example, eating more local, plant-based foods

Funding Information

• Applicants can apply for up to £3,000.

What can be funded?

• Revenue or capital as a ‘one-off’ grant for a specific project, event or programme of events, or equipment.
• Short term revenue costs e.g. day to day running costs (excluding staff salaries) for a specific project.

What cannot be funded?

• Items which benefit an individual.
• Activities that would generate a profit for the individual or group involved.
• Long term or on-going revenue costs e.g. staff salaries.
• Activities that promote or are linked to religious or political ideologies or beliefs.
• Projects involving improvement or repair to buildings which are the responsibility of another statutory body.
• Activities that are the responsibility of another statutory body.
• Capital projects in schools or improvements to roads, pavements or associated items e.g. bus stop, street lighting.
• Projects that take place outside Dacorum.
• Projects that have already started delivery – retrospective applications will not be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

• Constituted groups:
  • Any voluntary or community group can apply, including those already in receipt of funds.
  • These groups must comply with the following conditions:
    • hold a bank account in the name of the group, requiring at least two signatories,
    • have a Management Committee of at least three people,
    • be non-profit making or a social enterprise where profits are reinvested for community or social benefit,
    • operate with no undue restrictions on membership.
• Non-constituted groups:
  • Informal / grass roots / non-constituted groups can apply.
  • They must provide a letter of endorsement from a constituted charitable organisation, a local Councillor (Borough, Town and Parish Council), Police Community Support Officer or other similar representative on their organisation’s headed paper – if you are unsure on this.

For more information, visit Green Community Grants.

For more information, visit https://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/community-living/voluntary-organisations-social-enterprises/grants