Climate Action Leeds Community Small Grants October 2024

£33,635 has been invested in 11 community organisations through the latest round of Climate Action Leeds Community Small Grants, in partnership with Together for Peace. 

The programme is part of Climate Action Leeds, a five-year programme funded by The National Lottery Climate Action Fund. Climate Action Leeds aims to shape a ‘zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s’ through community-led climate action and networks of interest. 

The organisations that were awarded funding in the latest round of Climate Action Leeds Community Small Grants are:  

• • • • Back to Front 

• • • • Bee Inspired Eco Education CIC 

• • • • Friends of Farsley Rehoboth Burial Ground 

• • • • Friends of Gipton Wood 

• • • • Leeds Bike Mill Ltd CIC 

• • • • Leeds Blue Marble 

• • • • Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative CIC 

• • • • Leeds Permaculture Network 

• • • • Love Farsley CIC 

• • • • Wetherby Sports Association 

• • • • Zion Community Garden 

 

The funded activities include:  

• • • • Maintaining and improving a local orchard, and running learning sessions and workshops for volunteers. 

• • • • Delivering talks in inner-city Leeds schools to raise awareness about the important role bees and other pollinators play in the protection of the planet. 

• • • • Setting up bokashi compost systems for households, and donating a share of the produced compost to local allotments and community gardens. 

• • • • Exploring green energy options, including solar panels, to reduce the carbon footprint of a clubhouse providing community activities. 

 

We’ve invested more than £130,000 in local community organisations through the Climate Action Leeds Community Grants programme, with 41 grants awarded. 

For more information on grants awarded, visit the What We’ve Funded page.