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Revenue funding: making London a greener city for all

Encouraging local projects to mitigate and/​or adapt to climate change

This funding programme closed to new applications on Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Grant details

  • Area: Greater London
  • Open to: New and previous applicants
  • Deadline: No longer open to new applications
  • Funding length: Up to 5 years
  • Funding size: There is no minimum or maximum limit to how much we will give, however we never give revenue funding exceeding 50% of the applicants turnover/​income in any one year

Funding closed to new applications

Having committed exceptional levels of funding to London’s charitable sector until 2026, we closed our rolling grants programmes to new applications on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 for one year. This will allow us to manage our existing grants and pre-closure applications, while reviewing and developing our new funding policy, launching in autumn 2025.

Funding closed to new applications

This following text is archived and no longer represents an active funding programme

What we fund

The effects of the climate emergency are already being felt in London.

The capital needs to reduce its own carbon emissions, while also building its resilience to severe weather events such as extreme rainfall, heat and drought.

This work must be done in a way that does not exacerbate existing inequalities.

We want to fund local projects that take an equitable approach to mitigating and/​or adapting to climate change. We encourage applications both from organisations that already actively focus on climate and nature and those that have not previously seen environmental action as a priority.

Examples of projects we can fund include work that:

  • sets out to reduce London’s emissions

  • protects, manages, expands or enriches London’s green spaces

  • tackles poor air quality

  • prevents and prepares for impacts of climate change such as flood and/​or drought or heatwaves

  • promote biodiversity

  • increase access to growing spaces

Applications can be at neighbourhood, borough, sub-regional, or pan-London level, and must have clear community benefit and show evidence of community engagement.

We particularly welcome proposals that:

  • address the disproportionate impacts climate change has on London’s lower income and minoritized communities

  • bring different sectors together to find solutions to the climate crisis

We welcome applications from:

  • environmental organisations

  • community organisations in collaboration with environmental specialists

Strong applications will show environmental consideration throughout, for example, a food-growing project should use peat-free compost and avoid herbicides.

As part of our commitment to tackling the root causes of climate change, we do not just fund services, but other activities including influencing, raising voices and ensuring representation where this has a London focus. You might also be interested in our Voice and Leadership programme.

Infrastructure organisations can apply under this programme, but if you want to support your network or members to improve their approach to climate change, please apply through our Infrastructure funding: capacity building and representation programme..

Funding staff costs

We will not usually pay for staff costs beyond one full-time equivalent staff post. For example, we could pay for one full-time staff member, or two part-time staff, both working 17.5 hours a week. We will only fund staff posts that are paid the London Living Wage or above.

Applications to this funding programme are now closed