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Energy Redress Scheme - Just Transition Fund

Aims/priorities: The fund, provided by Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme and piloted under the scheme’s Carbon Emissions Reductions priority, aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.

The funding is intended to enable greater community ownership and social benefit from the historic growth in renewable energy over the next few years as the UK transitions to net zero.

Energy Redress Scheme - Carbon Emissions Reduction and Innovation Funds

Aims/priorities: The Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund (CERF) supports initiatives principally aimed at reducing the climate change impact associated with energy use, which relate to Ofgem’s regulated areas of energy generation, distribution, supply and use.

The funding is for projects that demonstrate measurable and lasting reductions in the carbon intensity of energy use and accelerate the transition to net zero. Projects must also have a realistic prospect of delivering broadly replicable benefits to existing and future energy consumers.

Better Youth Spaces Fund

Aims/priorities: Better Youth Spaces is £30.5m of capital grants funded by the UK Government and administered by Social Investment Business. The grant funding is to be used for small scale-capital projects of £5k-£100k, including capital equipment, small refurbishments and other capital projects to help youth organisations to better support the young people they work with. The project must meet at least one of the fund objectives:  

Veolia Environmental Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes:

  • Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
     
  • Habitat and Biodiversity Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations that are enrolled with ENTRUST to support structural improvements to a single habitat, such as a waterway, woodland, or nature reserve.

The funder is looking for projects that:

Assura Community Fund - Greater Manchester Health and Wellbeing 2026 Programme

Aims/Priorities: The aim of this funding is to improve the health and wellbeing of unpaid carers from global majority ethnicities in GM.

Who can apply? GM-based VCSE organisations rooted in their community that already work with unpaid carers from global majority backgrounds and aim to deliver health and wellbeing projects are eligible to apply.

You must be based and operating in one or more of the ten localities of GM. We can only fund VCSE organisations and your organisation must have: 

Sasha Foundation

Aims/Priorities: The provision of financial support and guidance to established charitable organisations:

• in the UK, supporting young people in the UK with a bias towards young people who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues; and 

• within the UK and Europe, supporting education and healthcare projects and programmes in the third world, with a bias towards education for young women. 

#iwill Fund 2025

Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that help young people to take part in place-based youth social action. This could include activities like volunteering, mentoring or improving local environments.

Social action opportunities should:

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