Every year we run a small grants programme supporting community groups and organisations to deliver climate action. In 2025 our funding supported communities to build adaptation plans, empowering young people to develop skills to share, repair and reduce waste, enabling groups to build and grow active travel communities, teaching children about food growing and sustainable and healthy eating and making climate action accessible to vulnerable communities with the help of creative practitioners.
We host an annual festival, Lanarkshire Climate Action Festival, over a fortnight in September, where we bring communities together to start climate conversations and raise interest in climate action. We provide a small grant to community groups and organisations to support them in hosting events. Events are organised under the themes of Energy, Circularity, Community Engagement, Food & Nature and Travel.
In partnership with local growing groups, we have set up and manage Lanarkshire Seed Savers Network. The project encourages seed-saving and adapts plants to the region’s growing conditions to ensure resilience against climate change, common pests and plant diseases. Seeds are available at local seed libraries, and we hope to expand the network to more locations in 2026.
The Hub offers an Energy Handholding Service to help community groups improve the energy efficiency of their buildings. The service helps groups to understand options, gather quotes, build capacity and support with finding suitable funding.
We also deliver training, learning exchanges and workshops on topics that our communities have expressed a need or interest for. This includes communications and marketing training, learning exchanges to community projects that have successfully installed renewables and in partnership with other organisations workshops on tree planting and composting.
On our website and social media accounts, we have lots of helpful resources and advice to support individuals and groups to take climate action.
