Deadline for stage 1 applications – Wednesday, 17 December 2025
The National Lottery Community Fund’s £30 million Climate Action Fund – Our Shared Future is a UK-wide grant programme for community-led partnerships, formed from a mixture of organisational types, for projects that will have a significant impact on climate change. Projects led by, or supporting, people and communities that have been hardest hit by climate change are likely to be prioritised.
This is a predominantly revenue grant programme (with a limited capital funding element) offering grants starting at £500,000. The majority of awards are expected to be for between £1,000,000 and £1,500,000 over 3-5 years.
Partnerships, which can be newly formed for the purpose of applying to the Fund, or well-established, can be either locally-based or UK wide. UK wide partnerships must be delivered across two or more UK countries.
Projects should make a clear link between climate and nature, and incorporate other social and economic benefits such as (please note that this is not an exclusive list):
o The creation of strong, resilient and healthy communities, and
o The development of ‘green’ skills and jobs.
Possible examples of activities and projects that could be funded by the Climate Action Fund include those that:
o Encourage environmental awareness by increasing outdoor learning opportunities.
o Employ storytelling or creative approaches to engage communities with the climate challenge through nature.
o Explore systems of producing food that are less damaging to nature, more self-sufficient, or that shorten distance we transport food, and
o Make new, better quality and more accessible natural spaces. For example, where the natural environment has been replaced by human activity in urban areas.
Grants can be used to cover:
o Engagement activities.
o Learning and evaluation.
o Limited capital costs. This could be for buying equipment or buying, leasing, refurbishing or developing land and buildings, or other construction-related work.
o Operational costs, including utilities.
o Organisational development and management.
o Project costs.
o Staffing, and
o Volunteer expenses.
Further information, guidance and an online application for is available on the https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/climate-action-fund-our-shared-future webpage
