The Lottery Community Climate Action Fund aims to inspire and support communities across the UK to address the energy and climate crisis. It is looking for projects that show how communities can address climate change while tackling the energy challenges through community-led climate action.
Projects should:
- encourage communities to use energy in an environmentally friendly way
- bring communities together so that they can explore ways to promote energy efficiency
- enable communities to understand and engage with opportunities for clean energy generation, which do not use fossil fuels.
All projects should consider how everyone in the community can get involved with climate action. They must also address any reasons why some people might be left out.
Projects should bring a range of benefits to communities, including:
- improving health and well-being
- creating local ’green’ jobs, such as jobs providing low-carbon heat for homes, community energy champions and energy advisors
- reducing carbon emissions
- supporting communities to be more resilient.
Projects should aim for long-term change and have the potential to have a positive impact beyond the communities they’re directly working with.
£8.5 million is available for 8 to 12 projects that show how communities can address climate change while tackling the energy challenges through community-led climate action.
Energy Learning Network
£1.5 million in funding is being offered to establish a UK-wide Energy Learning Network that will inspire and support community-led climate action. Over a period of three to five years, the Fund will support one partnership in creating this network, which will enable communities to work collaboratively with partners such as energy suppliers, local authorities, and behaviour change experts to deliver both energy efficiency and generation projects, and share knowledge, learning and resources across projects to achieve long term change. The deadline for expressions of interest is 28 July 2023.
Find out more and submit an expression of interest.
Nature and Climate Funding
Nature and climate funding is closing to new applications on 30 June 2023 at 12 noon.
There has been a high number of applications. So only the applications that most strongly meet the criteria will go through to the next stage. Find out more and apply for energy and climate funding.