Climate Action Fund – Our Shared Future

The Climate Action Fund is the National Lottery Community Fund’s commitment to help communities tackle climate change. The fund will support communities to be environmentally sustainable.

With Climate Action Fund – Our Shared Future the National Lottery Community Fund want to involve more people in climate action and wants to inspire bold and exciting change.

Formal partnership projects will be funded that reach more people by either:

• Linking climate action to the everyday lives and interests of local communities. And inspiring them to take action.
• Influencing communities at a regional or national level. Like linking up groups across locations. Or a campaign that inspires change across one country, or the whole UK.
• You do not have to be a climate or environment focused organisation to apply

The fund wants to reach people who are new to climate action by funding other types of organisations too. And by using people’s everyday activities as a starting point for climate action.

The fund is particularly interested in projects that involve people, places and communities experiencing poverty, discrimination and disadvantage.

Funding size
The minimum you can ask for is £500,000. It is expected to fund most projects for between £1 million and £1.5 million over 3 to 5 years. A small number of larger or longer projects may be funded.

Application deadline: You will be able to apply until at least the end of 2024. The fund is planned to close to applications in early 2025.