Our climate priorities are to contribute to:

  • A just transition that leaves no one and nowhere behind by
     
    • Developing green skills, jobs and opportunities
       
    • Reducing inequalities in health and wellbeing
       
    • Building community climate resilience and adaptation
       
  • Community climate action that supports a rapid reduction in carbon emissions and progress towards net zero

As a support and delivery partner on the Climate Action Fund created by National Lottery Community Fund, we are building the skills and capabilities of 100+ community climate action projects and local partnerships, as part of a national learning programme. 

We can help

Foundations and Funders

Seeking to invest in community-led climate action  by designing and delivering learning and capability building programmes to support grantholders and projects.

Local places and anchor organisations

To take a community-led approach to climate action and Just Transition

Our Community-led Just Transition Partnership

We work in partnership with The University of Edinburgh (UoE), Tavistock Institute (TIHR), and Strathclyde Centre for Energy Policy (CEP), to deliver work with communities, organisations and policy makers.

We help places to design, test and implement community-led  solutions that address the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the transition to a low-carbon economy.

We can help you by:

  • Embedding climate equity 
     
  • Developing effective place based collaboration and cross-sector partnerships
     
  • Co-designing change with communities, helping them remain resilient and improve the places they live
     
  • Maximising the benefits of climate action to health and wellbeing
     
  • Connecting people to local green jobs and skills
     
  • Providing research insights, supporting evidence-informed practice, and evaluating impact
     
  • Influencing change through effective communications
     
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