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Make a difference to the environment

Make a positive difference to the environment

We want to fund projects that help care for the environment and respond to climate challenges.

Under this aim, we will fund projects that:

  • deliver sustainable activities
  • help people reduce carbon or save energy

Deliver sustainable activities

This includes:

  • running repair or reuse sessions – such as fixing bikes or furniture
  • setting up a food growing projects
  • redistributing food from supermarkets or shops that would otherwise go to waste
  • using nature-based solutions to local climate risks – like planting trees to reduce heat in urban areas or using plants to help prevent flooding

Help people reduce carbon or save energy

This includes:

  • installing solar panels or other energy-saving features in well-used community buildings
  • offering advice sessions or interactive workshops to help people make small, positive changes
  • raising awareness about climate change, food choices, local growing, cooking or saving energy

Projects and activities we’ve funded for this aim

These examples show the kinds of work we support to help improve the environment.

Bringing local gardens back into use

A group asked people who didn’t use their gardens to offer them for growing food. They then brought everyone together for a community feast using what they’d grown.

Opening an environmental hub with community composting

An organisation opened a new environmental education hub for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Volunteers also set up and ran a composting site to help reduce waste in the area.

Examples of projects we will not fund

Solar panels for a sports club

A project to install solar panels on a sports venue that was not a well-used community space. It mainly benefited people involved in sporting activities, rather than the wider community.

International skills challenge for young people

A project involving an international competition where young people explored sustainability through game design. It did not show clear local benefit or impact for the wider community.

In-school environmental education

A project that delivered classroom-based environmental learning as part of the curriculum. It repeated content already taught in schools and did not go beyond standard lessons.