Revenue grants between £500,000 and £1.5 million over 3-5 years are available to UK community-led partnership projects that have a significant impact on climate change and make a clear link between climate and nature.
The National Lottery Community Fund’s £30 million Climate Action Fund - Our Shared Future is a UK-wide grant programme for community-led partnerships, formed from a mixture of organisational types, for projects that will have a significant impact on climate change. Projects led by, or supporting, people and communities that have been hardest hit by climate change are likely to be prioritised.
This is a predominantly revenue grant programme (with a limited capital funding element) offering grants starting at £500,000. The majority of awards are expected to be for between £1,000,000 and £1,500,000 over 3-5 years.
Partnerships, which can be newly formed for the purpose of applying to the Fund, or well-established, can be either locally-based or UK wide. UK wide partnerships must be delivered across two or more UK countries.
Projects should make a clear link between climate and nature, and incorporate other social and economic benefits such as (please note that this is not an exclusive list):
- The creation of strong, resilient and healthy communities, and
- The development of 'green' skills and jobs.
Possible examples of activities and projects that could be funded by the Climate Action Fund include those that:
- Encourage environmental awareness by increasing outdoor learning opportunities.
- Employ storytelling or creative approaches to engage communities with the climate challenge through nature.
- Explore systems of producing food that are less damaging to nature, more self-sufficient, or that shorten distance we transport food, and
- Make new, better quality and more accessible natural spaces. For example, where the natural environment has been replaced by human activity in urban areas.
Grants can be used to cover:
- Engagement activities.
- Learning and evaluation.
- Limited capital costs. This could be for buying equipment or buying, leasing, refurbishing or developing land and buildings, or other construction-related work.
- Operational costs, including utilities.
- Organisational development and management.
- Project costs.
- Staffing, and
- Volunteer expenses.
Further information, guidance and an online application for is available on the National Lottery Community Fund website.
Applications may be made at any time up to Wednesday 17 December 2025 and will be assessed on an ongoing basis. Please note that a 2-stage application process applies to the Fund. After a first-stage application has been made, the National Lottery will inform applicants if they’ve successfully progressed to the second and final stage within 12 weeks, with a final decision made around 4 months after the 2nd stage application has been submitted.