Climate Challenge Fund awards, Round 4
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead announced on April 7, 2009, the award of £2,244,362 to 33 projects in the fourth round of grants from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund.
The projects offered grant are:
Crichton Carbon Centre, Dumfries and Galloway - Carbon Busters 2, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from schools by pupil led action: pupils and teachers from eight schools will work to measure and reduce their schools' carbon footprint, primarily through behavioural change. The project will be facilitated by the Crichton Carbon Centre, who will deliver lessons about Climate Change and Carbon Footprinting, and help pupils create School Action Plans with the ultimate aim of reducing carbon emissions by 15 per cent. - £67,889
Heal the Earth Ayrshire, East Ayrshire - Assloss Walled Garden Allotments, to grow organic vegetables, using a rainwater catchment system, with minimal CO2 emissions in Assloss Walled Garden, Kilmarnock. Local schools, groups and families invited to join the community venture to grow food for free. - £30,367
Guildtown Community Association, Perth & Kinross - Guildtown & Wolfhill Carbon Community Action Project, aiming to wean households and businesses off oil-fired central heating; maximise energy efficiency savings; develop, test and promote rural transport solutions; and utilise the project's rural location to investigate opportunities for biomass and reduction of food miles. A co-ordinator will work with the rural community to make it as easy as possible for people to take positive action by developing tailored action plans and raising awareness, to reduce the carbon footprint of participating households by up to 30 per cent a year. It also aims to test the appetite (and possibly trial) for a community wide carbon cap and individual quotas. - £120,200
East Neuk Communities Group, Fife - East Neuk & Landward Energy Network (ENLEN), community-based energy efficiency program which will provide local solutions, including energy audits, support and advice as well as enabling increased uptake of the various schemes currently on offer for cavity and loft insulation, draught proofing, new double glazing, heating controls and replacement boiler systems. - £212,903
Perth & District YMCA - The Three C's Project (Community Carbon Champions), involving local unemployed young people working with families to grow vegetables in their gardens. They will also create an educational DVD around Carbon Emission Reduction which will be distributed at local community events celebrating the harvest of the vegetables. - £122,052
Deaf Connections, Glasgow - DEAFinitely Greener, to ensure deaf people in Scotland have equal access to information and advice about climate change in British Sign language (BSL), overcoming the communication barriers which currently exclude them. It will empower deaf people so they can take both individual action and work together as a community to reduce their carbon footprint by at least 30 per cent. - £16,850
Barrhill Community Interest Company, Dumfries and Galloway - Climate Champions network, to create a network of Climate Champions from residents within their own and four neighbouring villages who will promote ways for to achieve a sustainable environment. The principal aims are community engagement and capacity building about climate change and making a collective, local response. - £70,365
Out of the Blue Arts and Education Trust, Edinburgh - The Out of the Blue Drill Hall Refurbishment, to transform a building once heated and ventilated with an emphasis on fossil fuels into one which is an inspirational example of environmental sustainability. New spaces will be created for community participation, namely studios, workshop space, growing garden and community café extension. The benefits of the nature of the Drill Hall refurbishment will be promoted through promotional materials and awareness raising sessions. - £90,067
Kilwinning Community Sports Club, North Ayrshire - Green & Active, to employ a green and active programme coordinator to implement a wide ranging programme aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of their employees, stakeholders, membership and the wider community. They feel that their project will not only significantly reduce the carbon emissions of both themselves and the wider community but also have an impact in providing choice and opportunity to the participants to become more active and be aware of the healthier lifestyle choices Kilwinning Community Sports Club can offer. - £57,347
Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust, Glasgow - Scotstoun and Kingsway Focus, addressing climate change at the doorstep of the ordinary household. A range of projects will be undertaken such as composting, creating community gardens, promoting cycling, recycling and changing household behaviour in the areas of energy use and transport choices. - £160,105
Assynt Renewables Ltd, Highlands - Assynt sustainable communities energy savings and renewables project, an energy audit of houses, community buildings and businesses in the Assynt parish area with support from the Energy Saving Trust Scotland. - £74,220
Strathblanefield Community Development Trust, Stirlingshire - Energy Audit and Advice, aiming to reduce household energy consumption in Strathblane. Every household will be offered an energy audit of their home, and personalised advice and assistance about energy efficiency. Many properties will have a thermal image taken. The project will cut energy costs, increase the take-up of energy-saving measures and encourage the use of renewable energy. - £106,885
Argyll, Lomond and the Islands Energy, Argyll and Bute - ALI Energy Argyll Energy Information and Awareness Project, to establish drop-in energy information and advice points in seven communities in Argyll; to develop networks of community energy volunteers and to facilitate and support local community energy projects and initiatives. - £267,504
Fintry Development Trust, Stirlingshire - Fintry Renewable Energy Supply Company (FRESCo) Feasibility Study, seeking to explore the possibility of a local energy supply company in the village to accelerate the take-up of energy saving behaviours and technologies within the village. This project will look at the feasibility of this approach and will develop a financial model, address the legal issues and establish initial relationships with the key partner organisations so that a pilot project can be run later in the year. - £22,506
The North Howe Transition Toun Organisation, Fife - North Howe Transition Toun carbon reduction programme, engaging the community via door-to-door surveys, carbon foot printing and public consultation and training events on food, transport and eco renovation; community film and pub nights with visiting speakers; practical projects: local bulk garden-supplies centre, community apple press; and feasibility studies to improve local footpaths, bike routes, and car sharing schemes. - £92,755
Church of the Sacred Heart, Edinburgh - Lauriston Halls Refurbishment: the 100-year-old Lauriston Hall in Edinburgh's West Port is a large city centre community space. Funding to help to introduce natural light and provide insulation to the ceiling, wall and floor, to reduce by up to 80 per cent the carbon emissions of this elegant building. - £136,666
Glasgow Steiner School, Glasgow - Sustainability Strategies - Feasibility Study and Initial Implementation, sustainability strategies to reduce the school's energy requirements. - £56,350
Fife Housing Association - Kirkcaldy Community Energy Feasibility, a feasibility study into the energy potential from minewater lying below Kirkcaldy. If viability can be determined the latent energy will be developed in collaboration with Fife Council and 'Renew Services Ltd' to tackle fuel poverty and provide renewable energy to a wide variety of energy users. - £35,668
Shandon Local Food Group, Edinburgh - Shandon Local Food Initiative, by a newly established community group which is seeking to reduce the carbon impact of the purchase, production and disposal of food in the Shandon area of Edinburgh. Phase one of the project is researching the current carbon footprint of food and developing innovative ways of assessing this alongside building community views of what works best to support local food. - £22,530
TEAS: The Energy Advisory Service on behalf of the North Harris Trust, Western Isles - North Harris Trust Community Carbon Challenge, a partnership between North Harris Trust and TEAS: The Energy Advisory Service to work with the residents of North Harris to achieve maximum energy efficiency in terms of advice, insulation and heating. - £56,000
Lightburn Elderly Association Project (LEAP), South Lanarkshire - The Hands on Project, to deliver an energy efficiency and recycling programme aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the Cambuslang and Rutherglen areas. The community-led project will work with older people to tackle a global problem at a local level. - £115,797
Sustainable Energy Association Stonehaven - Feasibility to Identify and detail 6 Renewable Energy Projects, by the association established in January 2008 with the aim of developing income generating renewable energy projects in the town, as well as supporting energy efficiency initiatives where practicable. Income generated will feed into a community trust fund which can then be used as a source of funding for other projects in the future. - £12,400
Here We Are, Argyll and Bute - Cairndow Community Energy Audit, to conduct a comprehensive audit of all the 120 houses in the village and 10 significant commercial sites. They will collate the data from the survey, with the aim of identifying how these premises can be improved in terms of energy efficiency; this will have a direct impact on the reduction of carbon emissions on a local, national and global level. - £9,500
Pilmeny Development Project / North East Edinburgh Care Action Group, Edinburgh - Community Consultation on the uptake of energy efficiency measures, with older people and carers in North East Edinburgh (primarily Leith and Portobello). This work will aim to raise older people's and carers' knowledge and awareness on how they can reduce their carbon footprint and address their concerns around fuel poverty. - £3,460
Whitsome Village Hall Association, Scottish Borders - Whitsome Ark Renewable Energy Feasibility Study: the Whitsome Ark is a replacement village hall and has been designed with sustainability to the fore so the main sources of heating are solar panels and ground sourced energy extracted from boreholes using a heat pump. Exploration of the various means of supplying green electrical power to run this equipment and associated control systems. - £4,977
Milton Rovers Youth FC, Chapleton, South Lanarkshire - Energy Efficiency Upgrade, involving the upgrade and refurbishment of this community facility with the aim of including energy saving measures to reduce carbon emissions and running costs. Any savings made will be re-invested to carry out further carbon reducing/ energy saving measures in addition to reduced hire charges for facility users. - £8,568
East Fife Allotment Association - a project to create the opportunity for local people to grow their own fruit and vegetables. By doing so, not only will there be a contribution to the reduction of carbon emissions, but the communities will be provided with permanent leisure amenities. The focus will be to help the organisation achieve the necessary planning, legal and financial consents required to take the project to the development phase. - £1,500
Woodend Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club, Glasgow - Climate Aware Woodend, an attempt to establish a model of good practice for other sports clubs to follow in carbon management. This model will then be promoted to other similar clubs allowing dissemination of good practice. - £3,500
Callander Community Development Trust - Callander Hydro Project, with the aim to harness abundant supply of water and generate electricity to the benefit of the community, by providing renewable energy and funds from the sale of electricity for the community to invest into other carbon reduction projects. The grant will be used to fund a feasibility study to identify and cost the best location for the development of the Hydro Project. - £5,000
Transition Edinburgh South, Edinburgh - Switched On to Switching Off in South Edinburgh, two community groups, Transition Edinburgh South and the Edinburgh Southside Energy Efficient Group, aiming to find to best way to transition to lower energy in two tenement streets in South Edinburgh. South Edinburgh householders will share their solutions and plan some more with the two groups. - £7,305
Friends of the Earth Fife - Scoping Study for Establishing an Environmental Community Information Centre in Kirkcaldy, to investigate the feasibility of establishing an environmental and community information/advice centre in Kirkcaldy. The scoping study will focus on public consultation, but will also investigate the practicalities of setting up such a centre. - £1,800
Dalavich Improvement Group, Argyll and Bute - Green Heating, for the group, on the west coast of Scotland - which has undertaken to reduce the carbon footprint of their village hall by at least 50 per cent - to use an air recovery heat pump system and significantly improve the insulation of the building's external walls and windows. - £1,540
The Organic Growers of Fairlie, North Ayrshire - The Fairlie Community Sustainable Garden, to create a sustainable community garden to increase the community's access to locally grown food. The garden uses portable mini allotment beds and worm casts to provide productive growing mediums. - £47,492