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Climate Action Fund - Food Systems

Who it is for

You must apply as part of a partnership. All organisations in your partnership must be a:

• registered charity
• company limited by guarantee (with a not-for-profit clause or registered as a charity)
• community interest company (CIC)
• charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)
• Scottish charitable incorporated organisation (SCIO)
• community benefit society
• co-operative society (with a not-for-profit clause and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority)
• public body (such as a local authority, town, parish or community council)
• school, college or university - as long as the project benefits the wider local community 

Who cannot apply:
 

• individuals or sole traders
• organisations based outside the UK
• companies that pay profits to directors, shareholders or members (rather than reinvesting them for charitable purposes). This includes companies limited by shares
• organisations that apply to more than one of our funds for the same project at the same time
• organisations applying on behalf of someone else - unless you're applying together as a partnership 

Support you can get

You can apply for funding to cover things like: 

• staff costs, including sessional workers
• costs that help you support communities and smaller partner organisations
• anything that supports effective partnership working – like costs for partnership meetings, administration and management
• organisational development such as staff training, improving governance, upgrading IT or sharing learning
• transport
• utilities and running costs
• volunteer expenses
• learning and evaluation
• equipment
• translation or interpretation costs, for example to deliver your project in Welsh
• contributions to overheads – though these should be proportionate to your project request. Learn more about full cost recovery
• some capital costs

Support organisers

• The National Lottery Community Fund

Next Steps

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