Climate Change and Energy

Manchester City Council has invested £1million to local projects helping to tackle climate change through the pioneering Manchester Carbon Innovation Fund.

In 2009 the Council invited bids to the fund from applicants across the whole of Manchester including community groups, charities and businesses.

The grants have been issued to support a wide range of exciting, innovative projects that save carbon, inspire others to act and result in long-term and wide scale positive change. These projects include setting up the UK's first smart metering business district, an allotment at a local community centre and installing green roofs on community buildings to create more areas of biodiversity. Bee hives will be installed in Manchester allotments and community groups are being supported to help residents grow their own food at home.

The projects funded by the Manchester Carbon Innovation Fund will be delivered over the next year and will help Manchester to reach its goals set out in the city's climate change action plan, Manchester; A Certain Future.

There are many other organisations that provide funding opportunities for community climate change projects. A list of some of these can be downloaded here.