Climate Action Fund Open

The National Lottery Community Fund have opened their 2nd round of the Climate Action Fund (CAF). It’s aim is to aupport communities across the UK to help tackle climate change.

The second round focus on supporting medium-large scale projects focusing on waste & consumption. they encourage place-based, community-led partnerships to apply.

Overview:

Area

UK-wide

Suitable for

Community-led partnerships

Funding size

We’re offering two types of funding in this round - development funding and full awards. The maximum grant size for development funding is £150,000. For full awards, the maximum available is £1.5 million.

Total available

Around £8 million to 10 million is available for this second round of funding. We expect to make 12 to 15 awards in total in this round, and to award more development grants than full awards.

Application deadline

5pm on 8 April 2021 for your initial idea. If you get to the next stage, we expect the rest of the application process to take six to eight months.