Climate Change - Community Directory
As a Council, we are supporting Nottinghamshire's transition to net zero by 2050, in line with the national target.
As part of our Corporate Environmental Strategy [PDF], we are working to ‘Identify opportunities where the Council can influence and collaborate with communities to support behaviour change and help communities become resilient to climate change’.
Please find below grants, support and information for community groups to help identify opportunities to help transition to net zero. They are grouped into four main categories: National funding, Local funding, Support and Information.
Please contact Climate.Change@nottscc.gov.uk if you would like any other resources linked below or have any climate change question.
Title | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ACRE– Village hall support | National funding | Through a network of skilled advisers, ACRE coordinates a nationwide information and advice service for village halls. Advisers are based in every rural county of England and combine their specialist knowledge of running community buildings with local knowledge. |
| Benefact Trust | National funding | Supports the repair, restoration, protection and improvement of churches, cathedrals and other places of Christian worship where changes support wider community use and enable greater impact. |
| Biffa– Biodiversity fund | National funding | Projects under the Rebuilding Biodiversity theme support a variety of living things, including all species of plants and animals and the natural systems/habitats that support them. Ideally projects will have a strong element of public access or inclusion such as volunteer involvement. |
| Biffa - Community fund | National funding | Projects under the Community Buildings theme include those which improve buildings at the heart of their communities – such as village halls, community centres and church halls. They can include building refurbishments and internal works to kitchens, toilets, roofs, flooring, window, doors and heating systems. |
| Charity Excellence Framework | National funding | List of grants for small community projects |
| Community Energy England- Funding database | National funding | A spreadsheet to help you assess and access new central government (and some other) funds that will be channelled mostly via local authorities. This will help you know what is out there and argue for your inclusion in local authority bids for these funds. |
| Community Ownership Fund | National funding | The £150 million Community Ownership Fund is for communities across the United Kingdom. It has been set up to help communities take ownership of assets at risk of closure. It will run for 4 years until 2024/25.Voluntary and community organisations can bid for match funding. Funding may support the purchase and/or renovation costs of community assets. |
| Delamere Dairy Foundation | National funding | Grants are available from £250 to £5,000. Grant applications are welcome from groups or organisations that can demonstrate a clear community benefit in their constitution or governing document. Grants for The advancement of agriculture and of environmental protection and the relief of financial hardship |
| FCC Community Action Fund | National funding | The focus of the project must be to undertake physical works that lead to the provision, conservation, restoration or enhancement of a natural habitat or the maintenance or recovery of a species in its natural habitat. Must in 10 miles of an eligible FCC landfill site. |
| Green Heat Network Fund | National funding | Charitable foundation grant funding available for religious organisations and UK church projects, building, construction and repairs. |
