Learning and insights
Our latest insights and learnings on how we’re supporting communities to take climate action and helping the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.
Insights
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Reducing the carbon footprint of community events
Community events from street parties and village fêtes to regular play groups, youth clubs and social get-togethers create connections, help people feel part of a community, and provide much needed support. -
Making an environmental action plan
Everyone who delivers charitable services or runs a community venue can make choices to create a positive environmental impact. We’ve created these practical tips as a starting point for any charity or community group looking to co-create an environmental action plan. -
Engaging people in climate action
We’ve captured lessons from our grant holders who have successfully mobilised their community to take action to live and work more sustainably. -
Young people creating a brighter future
We know that many young people care strongly about environmental issues. We share four ways that Our Bright Future successfully recognised and harnessed that passion. -
Community climate action projects
A list community-led climate action projects across the UK. -
The role of behaviour change in mobilising community action on climate change
Behaviour change has an important role to play in finding solutions to the climate crisis. -
Research indicates that about a third of the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 can be provided by the restoration of natural habitats.
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Food, it could be argued, is the single most important issue impacting climate change and our planet’s health generally.
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Modern society has become reliant on speed and convenience in all aspects of consumption.
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To help support National Lottery funded community-led climate action projects with communicating and sharing the work they are doing, we commissioned Media Trust to create a media and communications toolkit.
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Middlesbrough: The right environment
In March 2021, Knowledge and Learning Manager Temoor Iqbal spoke to a number of grantholders in Middlesbrough, where the town aims to be carbon neutral by 2039. -
Community transport driving positive change
Throughout the UK, community-led projects are finding ways to encourage sustainable transport, from safer walking routes, affordable cycling, to car clubs and community transportation. -
Leading the way in community energy
During the last decade, there has been an increase in smaller, decentralised, renewable, community-owned energy sources, which has opened the door to community energy projects. -
Community-led climate action can lead the way
August 2021 - The first in a series highlighting successful community-led climate action activity already taking place in the UK, in partnership with Ashden. -
Rebuilding our planet post-pandemic: communities and the climate crisis
April 2021 - Facing up to tackling climate change we know people and communities feel overwhelmed at the size of the challenge. -
Power of the collective: Tackling climate change and changing communities
Feb 2021 - This report from The National Lottery Community Fund in conjunction with Ashden, demonstratescommunity-led action on climate change. -
Ashden’s Climate Action Co-Benefits Toolkit: Citizen and Community Engagement
July 2020 - This Ashden toolkit, developed with support from The National Lottery Community Fund, offers important insight into the co-benefits of climate action, which are often ignored in public messaging. It is through a focus on co-benefits communities can engage with a growing range of opportunities to take climate action at a local level. -
Community action for the environment
September 2020 - Our latest report, Community Action for the Environment: Small enough to care, big enough to make a difference, explores learning from our recent funding of environmental projects, with a focus on how to spark, mobilise and sustain local community action. -
Learning from Climate Action top-up grants in Wales
September 2020 - The National Lottery Community Fund Climate Action top-ups was a pilot delivered in Wales and developed to inspire environmental action from a range of community groups funded by us.
