Funding is available for:

• Projects to reduce carbon emissions. The CCF works alongside other Government grant funds which offer specific funding and CCF funds will not be available to supplement or replace these funds. The fund administrator will be able to guide you to these other sources of funding. For example the capital elements of projects to install energy generation equipment are excluded from the Climate Challenge Fund but not the preparation for energy generation as part of a wider carbon emissions reduction plan.
• Support community organisations to develop carbon emissions reduction action plans
• Pay for costs associated with feasibility studies or community engagement for carbon reducing projects and action plans.
• Pay for community capacity building (awareness raising around carbon emissions reduction, relevant training and skills development)
• The costs of a community establishing a partnership, setting up a company or project management costs related to the community carbon emissions reduction project or action plan

The basic premise of the Climate Challenge Fund is that applicants must be Scottish based and by the time a grant is approved they must also be legally constituted, not-for-profit community groups. Such organisations may include, but are not restricted to:

• Voluntary, not-for-profit and charitable organisations
• Schools
• Community groups working in partnership with Universities and Colleges
• Community groups working in partnership with National voluntary, not-for-profit and charitable organisations
• Community groups working in partnership with Local Authorities
• Community groups working in partnership with Housing Associations
• Community groups working in partnership with Community Planning Partnerships

This information is taken from: www.itsourfuture.co.uk/climate_challenge_fund/about_the_fund.html ; Please visit this site, there is more information available about the climate challenge fund, and details about applying.