Climate Change
Climate challenge fund announces first awards
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- Monday, 20 October 2008 14:55 Tamsin Morris Hits: 538
Mid-September saw the announcement of the first successful applications to the Scottish Government's Climate challenge fund. Established earlier this year, the fund aims to help communities with actions that will significantly reduce their carbon emissions.
In this round, awards were made to a range of organisations, including £67,451 to Fintry Development Trust in Stirlingshire for their community energy project and £20,000 to Badenoch and Strathspey Community Transport Company for rural community use of a locally sustainably-powered electric vehicle.
The fund is expected to have a total resource of £27m over the three years from 2008 to 2011 and applications will be reviewed by an assessment committee three times a year. Requirements for applying to the fund include the involvement of a community at the heart of decision making in the project and a focus on achieving significant reductions in emissions.There's no minimum grant and match funding isn't specifically required, although jointly funded projects are welcomed.
The grant scheme is administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful and further details, including an application form can be found here: http://www.infoscotland.com/ourfuture/65.html
