Projects which received grant
2004 - 2005
Beautiful Scotland in Bloom - a contribution of £7,500 per year for three years (with an additional £4,000 in 2005-06) to give greater prominence to sustainable development and biodiversity, encouraging communities across Scotland to embrace sustainable development principles - including waste awareness, recycling, green transport and wildlife habitats. The project included a New Neighbourhood Award for socially disadvantaged communities.
Centre for Human Ecology - a contribution of £5,000 per year for three years for Ecoprojects - matching students needing research projects with suitable projects . This provided a web-based service to increase industrial and academic involvement in sustainability and environmental justice issues in Scotland.
CSV Scotland - £29,000 per year for three years. Action for Sustainability project to provide all Highland schools with one source of information, resources and advice to assist their work in all subjects relating to education for sustainable development.
BTCV Scotland- £45,000 in 2004-05, £47,500 in 2005-06 and £50,000 in 2006-07 for a continuation and expansion of BTCV Scotland's "Community Learning and Action Network" (CLAN) - undertaking projects and initiatives across Scotland to help people deliver sustainable environmental changes - including habitat management, waste minimisation and recycling, composting, fencing, dyking and footpath construction.
Sustainable Development Research Centre - £5,000 for one year for a Highlands and Islands international sustainable development conference and exhibition on the subject of Sustainability - Creating the Culture in Inverness in November 2004. The intention was to explore the policy, infrastructure and stakeholders required to create a culture of sustainability, with an international audience, and highlighting the Highlands and Islands in the sustainable development field.
National Playbus Association - £1,000 for one year for the production of a Green Guide for mobile community projects. This covered environmentally friendly fuels, environmentally friendly vehicle construction and how to minimise the environmental damage caused by vehicles through good maintenance and environmentally aware driving.
The Bike Station, Recycle to Cycle project - £12,227 in 2004-05, £11,789 in 2005-06 and £11,959 in 2006-07 to extend existing Bike Station work throughout the Lothians. The work of the Bike Station diverts bikes from landfill, provides volunteering opportunities and delivers health, transport and social inclusion benefits.
Business Environment Partnership - £49,000 in 2004-05, £48,750 in 2005-06 and £48,750 in 2006-07 for an expansion of the Success and Sustainability initiative aimed at small and medium enterprises. This work demonstrated to business that sustainable development goes beyond waste minimisation and complying with environmental legislation - to travel, procurement, community engagement, new product development and biodiversity. The aim was to have one project in every local enterprise area in Scotland.
Argyll and Bute Council - £29,532 in 2004-05, £27,948 in 2005-06 and £28,777 in 2006-07 for work towards a sustainable transport solution in Argyll and Bute, maximising use of existing vehicles already in use by public agencies, in partnership with NHS Argyll and Clyde, the Scottish Ambulance Service and the Association of Scottish Community Councils. This aimed to increase public transport opportunities in a sustainable way appropriate to the needs of rural communities.
FEAT Enterprises - £50,000 in 2004-05, £44,000 in 2005-06 and £40,000 in 2006-07 for a mattress recycling project based in Falkland Fife - covering Fife , Clackmannan and Falkirk. This was the first such project in Scotland. At first recycling was to be of mattress parts - this social enterprise project aimed to recycle 6,900 beds in the first year and provide employment to five disabled or disadvantaged people.
Scottish Ecological Design Association - £23,250 per year for three years for the publication of three "Green Detailing Guides" for building designers on designing for deconstruction; designing for air-tightness and designing for minimising organic chemical content in the fabric of buildings.The guides encourage the design of buildings making better use of physical resources and helping reduce energy consumption in use.
YMCA Scotland - £6,555 in 2004-05, £5,689 in 2005-06 and £5,777 in 2006-07 to include sustainable development and environmental issues in residential courses at Wiston Lodge near Biggar for socially excluded young people. The aim was to have a programme relevant to change in young people's personal environments, with local community follow-up visits.
The Executive also gave support from the Sustainable Action Fund for two events held in autumn 2004:
- £1,000 to the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland towards the first Sir Patrick Geddes commemorative lecture on 1 October in Edinburgh, given by Jonathon Porritt on the subject of sustainable development; and
- £6,615 to the City of Edinburgh Council towards the promotion of events designed for participation in European Mobility Week leading up to "In town without my car" day on 22 September, which had the support also of the South East Scotland Transport Partnership (SESTRAN).
Additional grant approved in January 2005:
- £63,000 to BTCV Scotland for work which could be completed in 2004-05 adding value to their 2003-06 project raising awareness of biodiversity in disadvantaged urban areas.
- £5,000 to the Sustainable Scotland Network for a one-off piece of work beyond what the Executive's existing funding supported - workshops to bring council staff together and make progress on case studies and guidance, supporting the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 duty to secure Best Value and Sustainable Development.