Deadline: 10-Jan-2025
The SSE Airtricity’s Generation Green Community Fund is an exciting initiative established by SSE Airtricity to support communities across the entire island of Ireland in their journey towards sustainability.
The fund is designed to empower local communities to take an active role in the Green Transition—a collective shift toward greener, more sustainable living.
By providing financial assistance, the Generation Green Community Fund helps to kick-start and support community-driven projects that focus on environmental education, sustainability, and climate action.
The fund is particularly aimed at fostering local leadership and promoting social equity, ensuring that all communities, regardless of their size or location, can contribute to Ireland’s sustainable future.
Strands
- Strand 1 – Education for a Sustainable Future
- Objective: Empower young people and the broader community with the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to the Green Transition, fostering the next generation of climate leaders.
- Focus Areas:
- STEM and Climate Education: Programmes working with primary and secondary schools that promote STEM education with a focus on climate and energy-related subjects
- Green Curriculum and Schools Funding: Schools, education centres or organisations that develop and implement sustainability focused curricula and initiatives.
- Youth Engagement and Innovation: Programmes that develop youth-led sustainability initiatives and competitions that encourage innovation in climate solutions.
- Community Education and Engagement: Programmes that may consist of community workshops, awareness campaigns or educational programmes that promote sustainable living, renewable energy and climate action at grassroots level.
- Green Skills and Employability Programmes: Programmes that provide training and certification in Green Skills (e.g. renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, sustainable construction etc.).
- Strand 2 – Community-Led Sustainability Projects
- Objective: Empower local communities to lead and implement sustainability projects that contribute to net zero goals, ensuring long term impact and local ownership.
- Focus Areas:
- Climate Resilience Planning: Initiatives that assist communities in developing climate action plans that address local vulnerabilities to climate change.
- Sustainable Infrastructure Development: Green infrastructure projects like eco-friendly community hubs or retrofitting of existing buildings with renewable energy and energy-saving technologies (e.g. solar panels, rainwater harvesting systems, LED lighting etc.).
- Community Environmental Programmes: Community programmes that will develop environmental projects like community gardens, biodiversity projects, conservation projects and nature trails etc.
- Circular Economy and Waste Reduction Initiatives: Projects focused on waste reduction, recycling and initiatives promoting the circular economy (e.g. community repair cafes, upcycling centres or local composting programmes).
- Eco friendly travel initiatives – Initiatives that promote eco-friendly travel in communities like Bicycle infrastructure, public transit upgrades and electrification, local travel infrastructure.
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for funding between €10,000 and €250,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcome from local community groups, not for profit organisations, social enterprises and local authorities working throughout the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
- The fund is open to applications from not-for-profit groups/organisations such as:
- Non-profit organisations
- Community Groups and organisations
- Social enterprises
- Local development groups
- Community cooperatives
- Schools
- Universities and third level institutions
- Educational trusts and training centres
Ineligibility Criteria
- The SSE Airtricity Generation Green Community Fund will not support the following activities:
- The advancement of religion or party politics
- Activities that are the statutory responsibility of statutory authorities
- Projects benefiting primarily those residents outside the Fund Area of Benefit
- Activities contrary to the interests of SSER or its subsidiaries
- Activities likely to bring SSER or its subsidiaries into disrepute
For more information, visit SSE Airtricity.
