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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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| Church & Community Fund is designed to strengthen the church of Englands relationship with local communities. Up to £10,000 is available to fund schemes with scope for innovation. It can support both capital and revenue projects, as well as feasibility studies or professional fees. For more information go to www.churchandcommunityfund.org.uk |
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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. |
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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 . 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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| 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 Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action on 01788 550786 |
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| Low Carbon Buildings Programme
Grants for the installation of microgeneration technologies are available to public sector buildings (including schools, hospitals, housing associations and local authorities) and charitable bodies . 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. |
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| O2 Energy Saver Fund
The 02 Energy Saver Fund is a joint initiative between O2 and the Energy Saving Trust. It has been designed to help local communities of between 10-25 households to install energy saving measures in their home that will help in the fight against climate change. Successful applicants will be visited by an energy hit squd who will assess their individual needs and then install measures such as loft insulation as a result. The O2 Energy Saver Fund has been specifically set up to benefit those that would otherwise not be able to install energy saving measures. For more information please contact the O2 Ebergy Saver team on 02072220101 |
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| Home Owners |
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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 receive certain means tested benefits. |
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| Act On Energy
Act On Energy 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 climatechange@warwickshire.gov.uk |
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