Climate Challenge Fund
The Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) is funded by the Scottish Government and administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful. Development Grants of up to £1,500 are available to any community-led-organisation, including current CCF Grant Recipients within Scotland. The development grant should be used to develop an application for a climate action project either for the CCF or another Funder.The following activities are eligible for a Development Grant:
- A consultation event;
- Planning or developing a project using the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology;
- Training, including on the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology that should be used to plan and develop CCF projects and;
- Application writing support, this could include reviewing your existing CCF project using the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology. This will assist you to identify how a future project could build on the successes of the
- The costs associated with visiting, or working with, a currently funded CCF project;
- Expenses relating to organising a Climate Conversation event.
Applicant:
Reference number:
Please email this form to:
Contact details - These details should relate to the person in your organisation who will be the main contact for your project.
Name of Project
Organisation name (as shown on your constitution)
Main Contact Name
Organisation Address
Postcode
Phone number
Mobile Number
Email address
Web address
Where did you hear about the CCF? / Email/Event/KSB website/Word of mouth
Grant Required / £xxx
Project start date / dd/mm/yyyyy
Project end date / dd/mm/yyyyy
Your Organisation (max 250 words) - Please describe your organisation to us including some information about the activities that the group has been involved in recently.
Description of your Community (max 500 words)
Please describe your community and how they are currently engaged with climate action in the box below.
Project Summary (max 500 words)
Tell us what you would use the CCF development grant for and how this would help you work to develop your climate action project. Please include a summary of the costs associated with the proposed activity in the table below.
Budget Summary
Element / Description / Cost (£)
Using ‘Shifting Normal’ (Optional)
The ‘Shifting Normal’guide can help your community to design and deliver a successful project to tackle climate change by taking account of what influences people to change their behaviour. It also provides practical advice to help you to plan, undertake and review your activities. If applicable, please describe below how you intend to use the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology in your proposed project.
Peer-to-Peer Learning / Mentoring Support (Optional)
Please use this section of the form to detail which organisation(s) you intend to work with or visit and what aspects of their work you wish to gain an insight into. Please also confirm that you have contacted the organisation and that they can provide the support you require.
Contact Detail Sharing
An important element of the Climate Challenge Fund is the creation of a network of communities across Scotland that are taking action on Climate Change. We support this network by sharing contact details of successfully funded projects with other CCF communities, on the CCF website, through our publications and with other interested communities. You can help us to grow this network of low carbon communities by allowing us to share your contact details. However, if you are not happy for us to do this, please let us know.
If you wish to REFUSE PERMISSION for this project’s contact details to be shared, please tick the following box
Data Protection Act 1998
We will use the information you have given us to administer and analyse grants and for our own research. We may give copies of this information to individuals and organisations we consult when assessing applications, when monitoring grants and evaluating the way our funding programmes work and the effect they have. We may also share information with government departments, organisations providing matched funding and other organisations and individuals with a legitimate interest in CCF applications and grants, or for the prevention or detection of fraud.
We recognise the need to maintain the confidentiality of vulnerable groups and their details will not be made public in any way, except as required by law.
Additional Information
In addition to this form, you will need to send us copies of:
- A bank statement or other bank correspondence which shows the name of the account, the sort code and the account number. This is to ensure that we have your bank details correct and don’t pay your grant to someone else.
- Your constitution and/or other governing documents.
Declaration
I declare that the information I have given on this form is correct and complete.
Name (BLOCK CAPITALS)
Position in Organisation / Date
For Office Use Only – Assessment of Application
Guidance Notes
The aim of the development grant is to encourage and support groups to develop and run a climate action project.
Who can apply –All types of community groups are eligible to apply as long as they are Scottish based, led by their community, operate on a not for profit basis, or a trading company wholly owned by a not for profit organisation, and are legally constituted (or become so prior to receiving CCF funding).
What can the grant be used for - The development grant can be used to fund:
- A consultation event;
- Planning or developing a project using the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology;
- The costs associated with visiting,or working with, a currently funded CCF project;
- The costs associated with receiving support from an organisation from the CCF’s Mentoring Framework;
- Training, including on the ‘Shifting Normal’methodology that should be used to plan and develop climate action projects;
- Application writing support, this could include reviewing your existing CCF project using the ‘Shifting Normal’ methodology. This will assist you to identify how a future project could build on the successes of the previous project;
- Expenses relating to organising a Climate Conversation event.
The development grant should not be used for the purchase of equipment or infrastructure improvements (e.g. computers, the installation of bike racks etc.) as this type of expenditure will form part of the application to the CCF or another funder.We hope that each development grant will lead to a strong, fundable project which is supporting your community to take local action on climate chang.
The form is quite simple, and the following notes give you more details of what information to provide in each section. If you have any questions, please contact a CCF Development Officer for more advice and help.
Filling in the form
About your organisation– Enter your organisation’s name and address here. If your organisation is known by any other name, please put this in brackets after the legal name of your organisation.
Contact details – this will be the person we will get in touch with to tell you about the outcome of your application, and if we have any questions about your project. Please make sure it is someone who knows this project.
Your Organisation(max 250 words) – Use this space to tell us about your organisation – you might want to illustrate this with some examples of activities that the group has been involved with recently.
Details of your Community (Max 500 words)– Please clearly describe who your community are, where they are located as well as their current engagement in climate change.
About your Project (Max 500 words) – please tell us what you will use the development grant for. You might have some initial ideas about the project you would like to run in your community, or you might still be at a very early planning stage. You might want to learn more about low-carbon activities, or consult with other people, or do some strategic project planning or visit other projects. You might want to bring in an expert to help you take the next steps or you might be quite far along in your CCF idea and only need to help to write the application. Tell us here what you hope to do.
Within this section please use the table provided to detail the elements that make up the proposal along with a brief description of them and how much each element will cost.
Using ‘Shifting Normal’
Shifting Normal is designed to help community-led organisations tackling climate change maximise their success by taking account of how change happens when planning, carrying out and reviewing their activities. Shifting Normal is informed by the Individual Social and Material (ISM) approach to behaviour change and draws on the experience of community-led organisations to help understand better how change happens, and to use this knowledge to work towards positive change.
Further information and resources on Shifting Normal can be found on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website:
Peer-to-Peer Learning / Mentoring Support
Working with other organisations that are already acting on climate change can help you to develop your project idea and to learn from the experience of others. Please use this section of the form to detail which organisation(s) you intend to work with or visit and what aspects of their work you wish to gain an insight into.
An organisation wishing to access Mentoring support will be able to view a profile of each Mentor Organisation online. They will then complete a short expression of interest identifying which mentor they would like to receive support from and detailing what they would like to achieve. After initial contact with the Mentor the applicant will submit either:
•An application for a Development Grant some of which can be used to pay for mentoring time (e.g. project visits, etc.)
•A proposal detailing intended outcomes/outputs of working with a mentor, including costs, to be claimed from their CCF Award.
Name of Project – please give your project a name, which will help us with our filing and promotion. It also might be useful for you to have a snappy title when consulting with people or telling other groups what you are doing.
Project Start Date –We will consider development grant applicationsmonthly and inform applicants of the outcome. There may be other dates which will influence when you would like to run your activities.
Project End Date– the grant will need to be spent and the project completed within 3 months of the start date.
Grant Required – Please tell us how much grant funding your project needs up to a maximum of £1,500.
Bank Details - Please also provide your bank details. You must then provide evidence of your expenditure so we can process your grant claim and reimburse your organisation for the expenditure incurred. Please provide a copy of your organisation’s bank statement or other bank correspondence so we can confirm the details you have provided.
Contact Detail Sharing and Data Protection Act – A great deal of the learning around the Climate Challenge Fund has taken place between groups, which we encourage and support wherever possible. By allowing us to share your contact details, you will become part of this wider learning network. However, as the Data Protection Act also applies, we will make every effort to ensure that vulnerable groups are protected.
Declaration – This can be the main contact for the application within your organisation.
Submitting the form
Please submit the form electronically to
In addition to this form, you will need to send us copies of: -
- A bank statement or other bank correspondence which shows the name of the account, the sort code and the account number – to ensure that we have your bank details correct and don’t pay your grant to someone else.
- Your constitution and/or other governing documents.
If you have trouble submitting electronic versions of these documents, please fax hard copies to 01786 464 611.
What happens next
Your application will be considered by the CCF Team at KSB. We will consider the applications monthly and the2017/18 deadlines are outlined below. Due to high levels of demand the final deadline for Development Grants will be 15 September 2017.
Deadline for submission / Grants considered15 September / 29 September
If your application is approved, you will be sent grant acceptance papers within 10 working days. The development grant is formally accepted by completing and returning the grant acceptance form. Once you have accepted the award in writing, we will send you a CCF Welcome Pack which provides you with useful information to assist you implement your project. You will also be allocated a Development Officer (DO) who will be your key contact and who will process claims that your organisation will submit to for project expenditure.
The development grant must be spent within three months of your organisation’s acceptance of the awardand your project completed by 31 March 2018. A final report detail the activities support by the award and the impact of these activities must be submitted within one month of the completion of the project. Your Welcome Pack will contain the information we would like you to submit to us at the end of the funding period.