Kirkwall to host Climate Challenge Fund grant advice surgery
An open invitation has been issued for community-led organisations and youth groups from across Orkney to register for funding to help tackle climate change, from the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund (CCF).
An event is to be held in Kirkwall this month for organisations to learn more.
Environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, which manages the CCF on behalf of the Scottish Government, will be providing application and funding advice for community groups from 10am until 2pm, on August 17, at Orkney Library & Archive in Kirkwall.
Attendees will be able to find out about support through the CCF, the support that organisations can offer and engage with a question and answer session.
Potential applicants are being asked to submit an expression of interest before the event so that plans can be discussed in detail on the day.
CCF grants of up to ÂŁ150,000 per organisation, per year, are available for projects taking place between April 1 next year and March 31, 2020.
The deadline to submit an expression of interest, the first stage of the application process, is 5pm on August 28. Further information at www.climatechallengefund.org
David Gunn, Climate Challenge Fund Manager at Keep Scotland Beautiful said: “I hope many community-led organisations will attend this free event in Kirkwall to learn how the CCF can help them turn their climate change projects into reality and help Scotland realise its carbon reduction ambitions.
“Climate change impacts all of us and we need collective action to tackle it so we look forward to supporting many community-led organisations with their CCF applications and see this as part of our work to help make Scotland clean, green and more sustainable.”
The event is free and attendees are asked to register their intention of attendance through www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/ccfsurgeries