NextEnergy’s Solar Impact Fund
Grants of up to £1,500 are available in many parts of the United Kingdom for local groups to support social and environmental projects and activities that benefit the residents around Next Energy’s solar assets.
Who can apply: UK registered charities, Community Interest Companies, Charitable Trusts, academic institutions, charitable companies, unincorporated organisations.
Key words: Environment, Climate Change, Education, Skills Development, United Kingdom.
There was a lot of interest in this scheme, which we featured in yesterday’s bulletin as the ‘Local Grant’ programme for the South West of England.
In fact, the scheme is available across the UK in the following areas (if you click on the area heading, this should take you to the respective entry on the BizGive website):
- East England: particularly Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
- East Midlands, West Midlands and the North West of England.
- South East England, particularly Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Southampton and Sussex, and
- South West England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
NextEnergy’s Solar Impact Fund offers grants of up to £1,500 for local groups to support social and environmental projects and activities that benefit the residents around Next Energy’s solar assets. The fund is provided by NextEnergy and administered by BizGive.
The NextEnergy Solar Fund website provides a map showing the locations of the company’s worldwide assets.
The funding is intended for activities that will have positive social, economic and/or environmental impacts on the area, in particular by:
- Supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Promoting a just transition.
- Promoting general skills development, and/or
- Improving local education.