Thousands take action on climate change in Leeds

We’re proud to have delivered Climate Action Leeds Community Grants in partnership with Together for Peace. Over a number of funding rounds in 2023 and 2024, we invested more than £130,000 through 41 grants to Leeds community organisations. 

The funding programme was part of the wider Climate Action Leeds project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund. The project aims to create a zero carbon, more nature friendly, more socially just Leeds by the 2030s. 

The Climate Action Leeds Community Grants supported locally-rooted organisations with small and micorgrants, to put their own ideas into action in their neighbourhoods. A huge range of activities were funded, from community gardens and composting schemes to radio programmes and street festivals. 

Thanks to the funding, nearly 9,500 thousand people took part in climate action. 

And as well as supporting the climate and environment, the projects helped the people that took part, too. More than 1,500 people say they appreciate nature and the environment more. 624 feel a better sense of belonging to their community. 400 people learnt new practical skills. And 383 have better mental health and wellbeing. 

The impact of the projects will continue long into the future, with community spaces developed, and people carrying the knowledge and skills to reduce their carbon emissions, grow their own food, support local nature and so much more.