Cork City Council invites community organizations based within the City boundary, or national community and environmental organizations, to apply to the Community Climate Action Fund (the fund) for Building Low Carbon Communities working in partnership with community group(s) in Northern Ireland, under the Shared Island component of the Community Climate Action Programme.
The fund is designed to support and encourage community groups to implement projects that reduce carbon emissions and help to build sustainable communities, and contribute to the achievement of national climate and energy targets, in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Funding, provided by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC), can address one or more of the following themes:
- Home and energy.
- Travel.
- Food and waste.
- Shopping and recycling.
- Local climate and environmental action.
We strongly encourage you to propose projects that create benefits in several of the themes.
Small grants of up to €20,000, medium grants of between€20-50,000, and large grants of between €50-100,000, are available. Your project can be funded for up to 18 months. The fund can cover up to 100% of eligible costs.
Please contact the Cork City Council Climate Action Team at climateactionfund@corkcity.ie to discuss your application before you submit it.
To be able to win funding your organization must:
- Be a not-for-profit organization.
- Be located within the boundary of Cork City Council.
- Submit a completed application on or before the closing date of this competition
- Be registered with the Cork City Public Participation Network (PPN), or be connected with other collectives such as the Wheel, Tidy Towns, or be a community group with Articles of Association or constitution, which hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) for which approved minutes are available.
- National community or environmental organizations are also eligible to apply for this opportunity.
For an application to be successful it must address one or more of the themes described above
The following would not be eligible for funding:
- Private individuals
- Commercial undertakings (including sole traders).