2. Funding Surgery - Climate Challenge Fund

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CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUND
GENERATIONS WORKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE
19 March 2014

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INTRODUCTION
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Generations Working Together…
• Provides information, delivers support and encourages involvement to
benefit all of Scotland’s generations, by working, learning, volunteering
and living together.
• Climate Challenge Fund projects have achieved a number of GWT
objectives in addition to reducing local carbon emissions
1. Introduction to Keep Scotland Beautiful
2. Climate Change
3. Climate Challenge Fund
4. Case studies as to how CCF projects have met GWT objectives

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KEEP SCOTLAND BEAUTIFUL
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Keep Scotland Beautiful is the independent charity which campaigns, acts
and educates on a range of local, national and global environmental
issues which affect people’s quality of life.
It is committed to making Scotland Clean and Green, today and tomorrow.

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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
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SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE CHANGE
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GREENHOUSE GASES AND GLOBAL WARMING
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9. 1900 2000 2100
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GlobalSurfaceWarming(°C)
High Growth (A2)
Medium Growth
(A1B)
Low Growth (B1)
Constant CO2
(held at 2000 levels)
Source: adapted from NASA Earth Observatory data IPCC 2007 WG1 AR-4

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CLIMATE CHANGE
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• Increasing global
temperatures resulting in
changes to climate
• More extreme weather
patterns in Scotland and
across the world
• Impacts on everything
from human
infrastructure, crops and
ecosystems

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THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUND
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The Climate Challenge Fund
• Supporting community groups tackling climate change
(grants up to 150k available for financial year 2015)
• To date more than £54.7 million in CCF funding has been
awarded to 635 community group projects
• Projects reduce local carbon emissions, helping to tackle
climate change and lead to additional community benefits
Support from Keep Scotland Beautiful
• Dedicated Development Officer
- project ideas, application, project implementation
• Free workshops to increase community group
knowledge and capacity

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COMMUNITY GROUPS RECEIVING CCF FUNDING
IN THE PAST
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• Arts Groups
• Sports Clubs
• Community Councils
• Faith Groups
• Student Unions
• Residents Associations
• Local Charities
• Food Groups
• Community Led Housing Associations
• Development Trusts
………as long as your group is led by their community and operated on a
not for profit basis they could be eligible for funding.

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GWT OBJECTIVES
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CCF Projects have met these objectives as well as reducing
carbon emissions
GWT Objectives…
• Reducing age stereotyping
• Improving community cohesion and encouraging lifelong learning
• Active aging
• Encouraging healthier lifestyle
• Supporting greater personal independence
• Reducing social isolation of vulnerable groups in particular, the
elderly
• Community cohesion through participation in volunteering, attending
community groups

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Junior Climate Challenge Fund
(JCCF)
• Funding and support for projects led
by young people (21 and under) to
reduce local carbon emissions.
• All applications assessed by a youth
panel
• Keep Scotland Beautiful working in
partnership with Young Scot
REDUCING AGE STEROTYPING
Young people can lead projects

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IMPROVING COMMUNITY COHESION & ENCOURAGING
LIFELONG LEARNING
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• Foula Community Polycrub
(polytunnel), Shetland Islands
‘The project will share the knowledge
between generations of growing your own
and set an example of how community
action can promote long term
sustainability’.
CCF projects based in schools work with the local community

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ACTIVE AGEING –
ENCOURAGING HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES
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CCF projects encourage an active, healthy (and low carbon) lifestyle
• Eat, Cycle Work, Play Local, Inverness – promotes and facilitates active
travel and consumption of healthy local food

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SUPPORTING GREATER PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE
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• Cycling into Sustainability - The Fallin
Community Enterprise Recyke a Bike
(Falkirk & Stirling)
- Free bike servicing & training
• Forward ShopmobilityAberdeen –
assistance for community with disabilities
to use public transport
• A Better Way to Work (Glasgow) offer
free journey planning, trial public
transport passes and cycle training
- see our case study
CCF projects promote & provide lower carbon transport options
helping people travel independently

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REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION OF VULNERABLE
GROUPS IN PARTICULAR THE ELDERLY
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The Make a Difference Project,
LightburnElderly Association Project
£266,759www.leap-project.co.uk
• Blantyre, Hamilton, Larkhall,South
Lanarkshire.
• Provides energy efficiency advice,
advocacy, training and practical measures
to reduce energy use, fuel poverty & carbon
emissions from older peoples homes
Trusted CCF funded community groups provide advice on reducing
energy use, carbon emissions and fuel poverty.

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COMMUNITY COHESION THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN
VOLUNTEERING & ATTENDING COMMUNITY GROUPS
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CCF projects have brought communities together around voluntary activity
Shettleston Community Growing Project,
Glasgow
• Received multiple CCF grants
• Busy with volunteers even on wet days!

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FURTHER INFORMATION ON CCF
• Pick up our information leaflet
and case studies today
• See our website
www.climatechallengefund.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
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• Free training and seminars
Free for any community tackling climate change; various topics. See
www.climatechallengefund.org
• Climate Challenge Fund newsletter
Sign up via CCF website.
• Climate Challenge Fund Facebook group and Twitter
Climate Challenge Fund Gathering
@ Community Central Halls,
Maryhill on 24 April 2014