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| Community Funding |
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| Community groups, not-for-profit organisations and home owners involved in sustainability projects can often receive funding or part-funding to help pay for their initatives. This funding page aims to provide examples of available funding that groups may be interested in investigating further. |
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| Community Groups & Not-for-Profit Organisations |
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|  Awards For All
This National Lottery Fund is accessible by not -for-profit groups, parish or town councils, schools and health bodies. Grants are available of between £300 and £10,000 to fund a specific project or activity. |
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| Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme - Round 4
This Defra scheme supports the installation of biomass-fuelled heat and combined heat and power projects in the industrial, commercial and community sectors. This includes, but is not restricted to, public and private limited companies (Ltd and plc), sole traders, farmers, local authorities, hospitals, universities, schools, housing associations, charities etc. Capital grants will be awarded to support the installation of biomass-fuelled heat boilers and biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) equipment, including anaerobic digesters for heat-only or CHP. The application window will run for 6 weeks, from 9 April 2008 to 20 May 2008. |
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| Building Sustainable Neighbourhoods – Environmental Action Fund
This fund aims to provide support to community and voluntary groups in Nuneaton and Bedworth to deliver projects that will support environmentally based community enterprise activity, promote healthier or more sustainable lifestyles or address environmental dereliction. Groups can apply for up to £10,000 (although most awards will be around the £5,000 unless they are exceptional circumstances) to help deliver their projects. The funding can pay for anything from new footpaths in an open space, to marketing a new environmental community enterprise to running events to encourage the use of a green space. |
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| Community Sustainable Energy Programme
A Big Lottery Fund scheme to help communities become more energy efficient and ease the financial impact of rising energy costs. The Community Sustainable Energy grant scheme will help local organisations tackle pivotal environmental issues by becoming more energy efficient. The scheme, worth £10.1 million, is being managed by the Building Research Establishment and opened for applications at the start of April 2008. Groups can apply for grants to install small-scale energy efficient technology such as wind turbines or solar panels on sites including village halls, visitor centres or schools. Funding to improve building insulation is also being offered. Coupled with these objectives will be the drive to inform and raise public awareness of climate change and how altering building methods and adopting energy efficient practices can reduce it. Development grants are also available to help community organisations research new technologies that will benefit them most. |
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| Community Trees Fund
The Tree Council is offering community groups within the United Kingdom an opportunity to apply for funding of £100 to £700, with successful applications receiving up to 75% towards planting costs . The closing date for applications is the 31st May 08. For more information log on to the website or phone 020 4707 9992. |
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| Co-op Community Fund
Available funding of between £100 and £5000. Grants are awarded for initiatives coming under one of three headings, 1)Relieving poverty 2) Improving education 3) Other purposes benefiting the community including environmental projects. For more information on how to access this funding log onto the website or call 01618275879. |
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| Ecominds
A new funding scheme, Ecominds, is due to be launched in mid-2008 by mental health charity, Mind, as part of the Big Lottery Fund. The scheme will run for five years and fund projects that integrate mental health service users into the community via the delivery of environmental projects conducive to good mental and physical health. There will be approximately 125 grants on offer, ranging in value up to £250,000. Ecominds welcomes applications from England based groups and organisations seeking to develop an environmental project that involves people with direct experience of mental distress at all levels. |
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| E.on Source Fund
A fund developed to support community energy projects, which either result in the production on energy from a sustainable source or reduce the amount of energy used by a community group. This fund is available to community groups, charities and not for profit organisation across England, Scotland and Wales, with grants up to £30,000 available. |
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| Green Energy Trust
An independent charity (run through Scottish Power), which supports projects that advance renewable energy, ie. result in the production of renewable electricity or heat, and support communities through education and public engagement. The trust can provide up to 50% of the project costs up to 25K. For more information log on to the website or call 0141 568 3492. |
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| Groundwork Community Spaces Programme
A Lottery funded grant programme aimed at not-for-profit community groups based in England, including church based and faith groups, tenants and residents associations and registered charities. A number of grants are available: Small grants from £10,000 to 25,000; Medium grants from £25,001 to £49,999; Large grants from £50,000 to £100,000; Flagship grants from £100,001 to £450,000. Projects eligible for funding must be within two miles of a residential area and open to the public. The types of funding likely to be supported include: Community gardens and parks, nature reserves, ponds and projects that improve the local community's access to green space. |
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| Landfill Communities Fund
Formerly known as The Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, the LCF is a source of funding that can be used for a wide range of environmental projects. This includes the natural, social and built environment, which includes grants for improvements to community buildings. There are six potential funders in Warwickshire – for further information contact the Warwickshire Environmental Trust on 01926 418005. |
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| Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 2
Grants for the installation of microgeneration technologies are available to public sector buildings (including schools, hospitals, housing associations and local authorities) and charitable bodies under Phase 2. The funding covers the following technologies: solar photovoltaics, solar thermal hot water, wind turbines, small hydro, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, bio-energy, renewable CHP (combined heat and power), micro CHP, fuel cells. It is currently anticipated that funds will be committed through to mid-2009, but this will depend on the actual rate of applications. As at March 2008, over £25 million pounds in grants have been claimed since the LCBP's launch in April 2006. £7.5 million has helped 4,600 households generate their own clean and green energy. A further £18 million has gone to a total of 739 projects on school, community, housing association and business buildings. Schools, charitable bodies and other public sector organisations can apply for a share of the £44m that remains from the original £50m set aside for them under Phase 2. |
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| O2, It's Your Community
Fund set up by O2 giving awards of up to £1000, available to local groups and individuals, for anything that can show benefit to the community. For more information on how to access this fund log onto the website or call 08009020250. |
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| Home Owners |
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| Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 1
Householders can apply for grants of up to £2,500 per property towards the cost of installing a certified product by a certified installer. The funding covers the following technologies: solar photovoltaics, solar thermal hot water, wind turbines, small hydro, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, bio-energy, renewable CHP (combined heat and power), micro CHP, fuel cells. As at March 2008 there were still £11m in grants available under Phase 1 for householders who want to generate renewable energy at home. |
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| Warm Front Grants
If you are a homeowner or rent from a private landlord you may be able to apply for a Warm Front Grant. This is not a cash grant but a work package which may include insulation and heating improvements, low energy lights and energy saving advice, worth up to £2700. grants are only available if you recieve certain means tested benefits. |
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| Warwickshire Energy Efficiency Advice Centre
WEEAC provides a range of free enrgy advice and information services to the general public in Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Coventry to help make homes use less energy, have lower fuel bills and be more confortable while having less adverse effects on the environment. |
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| Further general funding information is available on Warwickshire County Council's Funding webpages |
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| If you have any funding information that you would like to share with the Partnership, please email it to: |
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