Westminster Climate Fund Round 2 Launched
This a funding opportunity for community organisations, businesses, cultural organisations and public sector bodies to delivery environmental action and carbon reduction projects in the City of Westminster. The first round of the fund provided a total of £5.6 million to 55 varied projects throughout the borough, saving a projected 20,000 tonnes of carbon and cutting bills for organisations in all sectors.
The fund has 5 different categories to cater for different audiences, and different type of environmental projects. Our categories are as follows:
·Greener Living: For local community environmental action projects up to £20K.
·Community energy and retrofit: For community and VCS sector to deliver projects to reduce energy bills and increase energy independence locally.
·City Decarbonisation: For cultural and business sector, including SME's to deliver decarbonisation projects on buildings to reduce energy bills and lower carbon emissions
·Feasibility: To provide technical support and assistance to design carbon saving and community energy projects.
·Clean Air: Our new category, designed to support community organisations, schools, and public healthcare bodies to improve air quality or reduce exposure to air pollution. This category looks to fund projects which benefit vulnerable groups through capital measures, strategic interventions or projects that raise awareness and behaviour change.
The funding round opens the morning of Monday 16th March and will close on the 13th of March.
Please find at the following links the fund guidance, and new FAQs.
You can access our application portal here: https://submit.link/45t
We offer a range of pre application support including:
- Meet the Funder sessions, where we will talk about the funding categories and answer questions: 19th February: Select tickets – Westminster Climate Fund - meet the funder – Microsoft Teams and 26th February: Select tickets – Westminster Climate Fund - meet the funder (Schools and VCS organisations) – Micro…
- Pre Application meetings, we have 4 options which you can access here: https://outlook.office.com/
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- General pre application meeting with me (Green Funding Manager) for our City Decarbonisation, Community Energy and Retrofit and feasibility categories.
- Heating solutions pre application meeting: Please select this option if you're project involves removing or replacing a boiler in your building.
- Clean air category pre application meeting