Climate Challenge Fund round 5
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead announced on September 2, 2009, the award of £3,516,278 for 37 projects in the fifth round of grants from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund.
The projects offered grant are:
Callander Community Development Trust - Callander and Climate Change, to inspire and encourage the community to achieve a 4 per cent reduction in their carbon emissions each year by preparing a long term action plan covering the next 15 years. Key to this will be development of a carbon footprint measurement tool to engage the whole community, raise awareness of the urgent need for action and identify the projects and resources which will most effectively reduce carbon emissions. - £113,031
Energy Saving Schools, West Lothian - Energy Saving Schools, to reduce energy consumption in primary and secondary schools in West Lothian using a behavioural change model approach, with a focus on heating, lighting and energy consuming equipment. - £38,693
Twechar Community Action, East Dunbartonshire - Green Energy Aware Twechar, to help local residents to understand their energy consumption and usage with an Energy Awareness Capacity Builder whilst building on community spirit. A community exchange facility will be developed in the community's Healthy Living Centre as well as looking into the feasibility of equipping it with renewable technologies allowing the community to take real sustained action towards reducing its carbon footprint. - £132,557
Newburgh Community Trust, Fife - Newburgh Community Windfarm Project, to develop a community-owned wind farm with a generating capacity equivalent to the Trust area's electricity consumption. This will help the area to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, while income from the scheme will be used to subsidise local energy efficiency and other environmentally and socially beneficial projects. - £235,850
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre, Edinburgh - Drylaw and Telford Community Gardens Project in the north of Edinburgh, to create seven food growing areas to grow fruit and vegetables for local people. As well as growing their own food, local people will benefit from a series of cooking classes and Climate Challenge workshops. - £103,641
Milnbank Housing Association, Glasgow - Milnbank Sustainable Community Nursery and Environmental Education Centre, to save over 1,900 tonnes of carbon over two years. It will create much needed subsidised childcare places for the East End of Glasgow, raise awareness of the climate change agenda, and create 40 jobs in an area with very high unemployment. - £199,332
Route 81 Youth Project - Garelochhead Youth and Community Centre Carbon Reduction Project, to allow full insulation and double glazing of a derelict building being converted for the centre, adding to its sustainability by increasing energy efficiency, reducing carbon footprint and energy loss, and reducing ongoing revenue costs for this new facility, which will be a resource for the whole community in the linked villages of Garelochhead and Portincaple in Argyll. Funding already secured includes a renewable energy heating system (ground source heat pump). - £182,025
Muthill Community Development Association, Perthshire - Muthill Low Carbon Community, to encourage and support low carbon lifestyles, with a focus on reducing carbon from heating homes, promoting active travel and encouraging local food production, engaging a project officer to work with the local community to raise awareness and secure lasting benefits. - £84,588
Millburn Academy, Inverness - Energy + Action = Change, a pilot study consisting of a consortium of seven Inverness schools led by Millburn Academy to work on a variety of projects across many subject areas and work with the local community in reducing carbon emissions, motivating people to see that adjustments to their individual behaviour can have a very positive impact. - £54,220
Ascend Scotland Ltd, Glasgow - CERCH (Carbon Emission Reduction in Community Halls), to support, encourage and enable local community and church halls and centres across the south-west of Glasgow to improve their energy efficiency, reduce their carbon emissions, and subsequently reduce energy costs. The resultant improvement in the comfort of the halls and cheaper running costs will encourage use by local groups and residents, which will in turn reinvigorate community ownership and interest in the halls. - £62,890
Raploch Community Partnership, Stirling - A Low Carbon Raploch - Phase 2, to achieve an innovative low carbon regeneration of Raploch, in partnership with a number of local and national organisations. The aim is to 'catch up without the carbon' - to improve opportunities for the whole community by reducing emissions: reduced energy bills, active travel and improved green spaces, with lessons for other communities. - £188,833
Firth and Mossbank Community Allotment Group, Shetland - Phase 1 Mossbank Allotments, to plot Shetland's role as a self-sufficient, carbon neutral, healthy and active community where everyone can access nutritious local food at a reasonable cost. This will build community strength and knowledge where this is weak and spread the good practice and past horticultural and environmental expertise still found in some sectors of Shetland's community island-wide to the benefit of all sectors and groups physically, mentally, educationally, financially and emotionally. - £54,175
Aberdeen Forward Ltd - Transition Aberdeen, to provide a community-led platform for the citizens of Aberdeen to effect real environment change, with information sharing and training sessions on carbon reduction activities. As well as seeking to divert waste from landfill through the Creative Waste Exchange, participation in city allotments, growing food for the benefit of family and friends, by new and existing allotment holders will be encouraged with workshops and practical assistance. There will also be workshops on sustainable living, reuse and other topics. - £75,730
North Howe Transition Toun, Fife - The CaRB (Carbon Reduction in Buildings) Project, energy-saving measures coordinated across the community to reduce carbon emissions and fuel poverty. By developing broad partnerships, the project will increase social resilience and local control in the face of an unpredictable energy future. - £114,361
Moffat CAN, Dumfriesshire - Grow Allot (Greatly Reduce/Reuse/Recycle Our Waste And Lead Local Organic Trade), to reuse derelict buildings and land to provide recycling facilities, allotments and an organic market garden for Upper Annandale. - £310,767
Care and Repair Edinburgh Ltd - Edinburgh Garden Share Scheme (EGSS), to match garden owners who have land to spare with people who would like to grow fruit and vegetables. The scheme will be run in such a way as to maximise social and environmental benefits throughout the Edinburgh city area. - £92,043
Killin and Ardeonaig Community Development Trust, Perthshire - Killin Cutting Carbon, with Environmental Action Killin and supported by Strathclyde and Central Energy Saving Scotland advice centre, to reduce the community carbon footprint by encouraging the uptake of cavity wall and loft space insulation accompanied by an educational programme aimed at adults and children. This will introduce the concept of taking responsibility for our own carbon emissions and enable participants to identify other aspects of life where relatively small changes achieve significant long term carbon reductions, followed by subsequent projects to harness alternative, low carbon, energy sources. - £87,251
Dalmally Community Company Ltd, Argyll - Dalmally Community Centre Super-Insulation and Heating System, to upgrade the standard insulation and energy efficiency measures planned for a new build community centre. The grant funding will enable a major increase in insulation and allow the installation of a Heat Recovery Ventilation System. These measures will greatly reduce carbon footprint and more than half annual electricity costs. On completion it is intended to use the building to promote and demonstrate the economic advantages of insulation and heat recovery to the community, generally reducing the carbon output of the area. - £98,087
The Organic Growers of Bothwell - Bothwell Community Garden, to establish a sustainable community garden growing fruit, vegetables and herbs organically with the aim of reducing carbon emissions and preventing local vegetable waste going to landfill. The funding will be used to construct 54 raised beds, two polytunnels and wormeries, along with a small orchard containing fruit trees and soft fruit. - £196,354
Castlemilk and Carmunnock Community Windpark Trust - to build a small-scale 3X2 MW turbine community wind park and use the profits to support the regeneration effort locally by securing a sustainable community resource for the benefit of local residents in Castlemilk and Carmunnock. In the first 12 months the grant will enable the Trust to employ a project development manager on the final construction and switch-on phase of the development. - £ 67,032
Tullis Russell Environmental Education Ltd - Eco-Interpretation Centre, to build an environmental education centre at Tullis Russell's paper mill in Markinch, Fife. The centre will be built to the highest standards of environmental construction and will provide a resource for schools and community groups to learn about sustainability issues. - £497,000
Knockando Woolmill Trust - Knockando Woolmill, Moray, to minimise CO2 emissions by 9.2 per cent in a grade A, community-owned woollen mill through use of wool insulation. The Trust and the Margach Hall Committee, Knockando, will hold a joint awareness raising event to promote carbon emission reduction in the summer of 2010. - £9,122
Margach Hall Management Committee - Margach Hall refurbishment, Knockando, Moray, reducing carbon emissions and making the Margach Hall, originally completed in 1910, a warm friendly place. - £15,421
Grantown and Vicinity Community Council, Strathspey - Greener Grantown's car to bus timetable will engage the local community to achieve a significant reduction in carbon emissions by replacing numerous car journeys by travel by bus. A new comprehensive community publication for Grantown residents will augment the present nine standard bus timetables giving, at very modest cost, the Grantown departure and return timings with links for onward travel. - £2,467
The Grange Association, Edinburgh - Grange Energy and Renewables Study Stage 1, the first part of a two-stage project to stimulate continuing area-wide community engagement on energy, carbon and sustainability, and to reduce carbon emissions. In Stage 1, all respondents in a survey of 3,000 households will receive energy efficiency recommendations, technical advice and details of grants for energy improvement measures which lead to measurable carbon emissions reductions. - £10,121
Scottish Episcopal Church - St Ninian's Heating Project, Alyth, Perthshire, for reduction in carbon emissions by the congregation of St Ninian's as part of the community, changing to gas central heating, as recommended by the Energy Saving Trust, the grant being for the radiators and pipe insulation, as well as an awareness raising weekend to encourage the community to reduce their individual carbon footprints. - £1,590
Edinburgh University People and Planet Society - Towards a Transition University of Edinburgh, a student and staff led initiative to develop a Carbon Crash programme for their 35,000-strong community. Support for an initial 4-month feasibility project for summer interns to establish a baseline footprint of individuals' actions and to design an innovative programme to complement the low carbon estate projects already under way. - £18,800
Lambhill Stables Ltd, Glasgow - HorsePower Glasgow, to deliver a programme of activities to raise awareness of sustainable development and climate change in harmony with social, environmental and economic factors. - £198,188
Coalburn Silver Band, Lanarkshire - Comprehensive upgrading of the Coalburn Silver Band Hall, to reach present day standards of wall, floor and roof insulation in conjunction with a new boiler/ central heating hot water system and solar panels. - £60,373
Community Development and Regeneration, Caithness - Fill the Gap, a new service by Ormlie Community Association, Thurso, to complement and expand the work of Caithness Energy Advice, addressing the issue of reducing carbon emissions from homes through the delivery of a high-quality thermal imaging service. - £72,200
Raploch Community Partnership, Stirling - Raploch Carbon Connections, Phase 2 of the Raploch Carbon Cutting Feasibility Study. - £2,000
GEAN project: Grantown Grammar School, Strathspey - GEAN project, Grantown, a range of activities through the Grantown Energy Action Network (GEAN) project aimed at reducing dependency on oil and other non-sustainable energy sources. Building on the Transition model, the project will educate and train students and the wider community to reduce CO2 production and energy consumption, with out-reach, awareness raising and training events to highlight what the community can do. - £22,330
Glendale Primary Parent Council, Glasgow - Reducing Glendale School's carbon, to cover the costs of purchasing and installing a cycle shelter, as well as purchasing a bicycle as a prize to be awarded to the pupil who has created the best poster about carbon emissions and how to reduce them. Glendale Primary wants more members of the school community cycling, kick-scooting and walking to school. - £9,975
St Matthew's Primary School Cycle Club, Bishopbriggs - St Matthew's Primary School Cycle Club, to promote cycling to primary children of all ages, their parents and teachers, seeking to create a culture of cycling within families in the school and reaching more broadly into the wider community in East Dunbartonshire. The project will establish five new cycle "trains" by providing cycling competency to groups of children involving cycling skills, maintenance and first aid as well as the production of a cycle map of the East Dunbartonshire area. - £18,777
Glasgow Steiner School - Glasgow Steiner School Sustainability Strategies Feasibility Study, sustainability strategies to reduce the school's energy requirements, a feasibility study and initial implementation. - £21,102
Sunny Lochaber United Gardeners - Sunny Lochaber United Gardeners Allotment Project, aiming to provide spaces for people to grow their own organic food, as well as learning from and teaching others growing skills and methods. The project brings together people from Lochaber, with a common aim, regardless of their abilities or background. - £18,500
Eday Partnership, Orkney - Eday Carbon Reduction Programme (Community Powerdown), for one of the smaller Orkney Islands to increase its sustainability as a community as well as reducing carbon emissions by a further 34 tonnes per annum by the end of 2016. The appointment of a full time Carbon Reduction Co-ordinator will assist the community to achieve its goals. - £46,851