Climate Challenge Fund
This is a grant scheme administered within the Sustainable Action Fund.
The Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) gives communities, through individual community groups and community planning partners, the ability to implement actions to reduce their carbon emissions.
The Climate Challenge Fund has a total available resource of £27.4 million over the three years 2008-11. The allocation, which was £8.8 million in 2008-09, is £9.3 million in 2009-10 and subject to parliamentary approval is £9.3 million in 2010-11.
Over 150 communities across Scotland have now received funding, with the total money awarded to projects across five rounds £11,916,254. By July 2009 there had been 517 formal expressions of interest from community groups.
A community group must be the lead player in a project, and projects must include a measurable and significant reduction in carbon emissions, with a positive lasting legacy beyond the three years of the funding programme.
More about the fund, criteria for projects and how to apply
Information on four exemplar projects which illustrate what communities can do
Round 1 projects approved, September 17, 2008
Round 2 projects approved, November 4, 2008
Round 3 projects approved, January 15, 2009
Round 4 projects approved, April 7, 2009
Round 5 projects approved, September 2, 2009
The Climate Challenge Fund Grants Panel meets three or four times a year in Stirling to assess applications for funding and to allocate funds to communities who meet the set criteria. Members of the Grants Panel, which first met on August 13, 2008, have been selected for their knowledge and expertise in community action and carbon reduction.
Members of Climate Challenge Fund Grants Panel are:
(Chair) Simon Pepper - Environmental consultant
Roger Kelly - Convener of the Royal Town Planners Institute in Scotland
Karen Grant - voluntary sector (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Osbert Lancaster - Footprint Consulting Limited
David Spaven - Deltix Transport Consulting
Councillor Alison Hay - Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA)
Lloyd Austin - RSPB
Mike Robinson - Stop Climate Chaos
Pauline Gallacher - Board member, Architecture and Design Scotland.
Calendar of community-focussed CCF information and training events.