The Climate Action Fund is now open to applications with an initial focus on nature and climate.
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated the interconnection between society, economy, and the natural world. This presents a huge and relatively untapped opportunity for communities to play a central role in working with nature to address the causes and consequences of climate change.
The Climate Action Fund is interested in providing National Lottery funding to projects that use nature to encourage community-led climate action in the places we live and work, and that can bring other important social and economic benefits, such as improved health across communities or the development of ‘green’ skills or jobs.
The fund is interested in hearing from projects that can do at least one of the following:
- show how creating a deeper connection with nature will lead to changing people’s behaviours and greater care for the environment
- show how by bringing nature back into the places we live and work, we can help communities to reduce or adapt to the impacts of climate change
Projects also need to show how they can achieve longer-term, larger change that goes beyond the communities they’re directly working with.
The fund is open to projects from across the UK, from community and voluntary organisations, charities, public sector and organisations working in partnership.
Up to £1.5 million is available over 2 to 5 years, with most projects between £300,000 and £500,000. They are looking to fund between 12 and 15 projects.
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