Grants for climate action
Find out about grants available through Zero Carbon Cumbria and other programmes to help you drive carbon reduction in your community or organisation.
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Find out about grants available through Zero Carbon Cumbria and other programmes to help you drive carbon reduction in your community or organisation.
Have you got a bright idea for an activity or project to raise awareness about climate change and reduce carbon emissions in your community? A Zero Carbon Cumbria Community Climate Grant could help you bring it to life.
There are grants ranging from £200 to £10,000. You can apply at any time for the grants up to £2,000, and there are funding rounds for the larger grants of between £2,000 and £10,000.
Typical projects might be around food, waste, consumption or transport, for example.
The grants are coordinated by Cumbria Sustainability Network, supported by Cumbria Action for Sustainability. They’re thanks to funding from the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, with additional funding from Allerdale Borough Council for projects in that district.
There’s lots of advice and support available to help you to apply, and the application process has been kept as simple as possible. Even if you’ve just got an idea at this stage, you’re warmly invited to get in touch with CAfS to talk it through.
“We were overjoyed to be successful in our bid for funds to make sure that we can continue to save as much edible produce as possible from disappearing into landfill. It was an amazing moment when we realised that so many people had voted for our project! I’m so pleased that we can continue to build and grow our project to benefit people in Ulverston as well as the planet.”
The website is brought to you by the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership , which is steering carbon reduction at a strategic level in the county. The site is managed on the partnership’s behalf by Cumbria Action for Sustainability, which co-chairs the partnership alongside Cumbria County Council. It’s funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, as part of a £2.5 million grant for the Zero Carbon Cumbria programme of projects.
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