Climate & Environmental Justice

Climate and Environmental Justice supports organisations addressing issues affecting London’s communities arising from climate change and environmental harm. These include extreme heat, unsafe housing, rising energy costs, air pollution, flooding and flood risk, food insecurity, and unequal access to healthy environments. 

For many London residents, access to support from local organisations is a lifeline when living with the daily impacts of climate change in their homes and environments, which affect their health, wellbeing, and safety. 

This programme recognises that climate change and environmental harm do not affect everyone equally. The communities who have contributed least to climate change are experiencing the most severe impacts. 

Our aim is to strengthen community leadership, resources, and the voices of those most affected by supporting community-led work that builds collective power, improves daily life, and lays the foundations for long‑term, systemic change. 

In the first round of this programme in 2026–27, we’re prioritising community-led organisations working with people living in London who are most affected by climate and environmental issues, often rooted in structural inequalities such as race, income, disability, migration status, age, health, and housing. These organisations are:

• Community-led providing support to those most affected by climate-related harm and environmental challenges, particularly low-income and marginalised communities where climate impacts intersect with inequality (particularly across housing, health, food, migration and culture)
• Addressing climate and environmental challenges (with a track record of working with communities disproportionately affected by climate-related harm)
• Led by or accountable to the communities they serve, with lived experience shaping their work, priorities and decision-making
• Working towards systems change, with a track record of credible experience in climate and environmental justice work over time

Climate and environmental injustice is a social justice and human rights issue shaped by wider inequalities linked to race, income, disability, migration status, age, health, and housing, among other factors. We believe structural change comes from tackling the root causes of climate and environmental inequality. 

Rather than focusing solely on abstract targets or technical solutions, this programme centres on lived experience, everyday realities and the systems that shape them. Through our funding, we want to strengthen place-based resilience and support organisations in designing and delivering local responses to climate change and environmental harm in their neighbourhoods and communities.

Climate and Environmental Justice sits within our ten-year funding policy, Standing with Londoners. Our funding offer will evolve over time in response to need, opportunity and learning. Our hands-on funding approach aims to be flexible, accessible and fair, and will continue to develop as we learn from the organisations and communities we support.

Visit Our approach to funding for more information on the other types of funding we offer.

Our programme team assesses applications and manages grants, working closely with applicants, funded organisations and partners to strengthen our funding offer. Together, we gather feedback and identify emerging trends and opportunities across the sector.

• Clara Espinosa — Programme and Partnerships Lead
• Maria Hughes — Programme and Partnerships Manager
• Kate Halahan — Programme and Partnerships Manager 

We’re opening applications for this funding round on Monday 6 July 2026. This is the first round of the programme. We’ll update this page as further rounds become available and share updates via our newsletter and on LinkedIn.

If you have any questions regarding this programme or future funding rounds, please contact us: funding@citybridgefoundation.org.uk or 020 7332 3710.