{"id":12391,"date":"2021-10-25T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:11:31","slug":"together-for-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/10\/25\/together-for-our-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Together for Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations have just over a month to apply for their share of a \u00a32.5 million climate engagement fund ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), hosted in the UK next month.<\/p>\n<p>Grants of \u00a31,000 to \u00a310,000 are available for activities relating to the climate in one of the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food.<\/li>\n<li>Transport.<\/li>\n<li>Energy.<\/li>\n<li>Waste and consumption.<\/li>\n<li>The natural environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Approximately 400 to 500 awards will be made through this National Lottery Community Fund, with each project required to meet at least two of the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support the development of a longer-term climate action within communities after the COP26 event.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage communities to plan for the climate emergency.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate the importance of community-led climate action and encourage more people to get involved.<\/li>\n<li>Build resilience in communities hardest hit by climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Provide jobs, skills or training opportunities for communities which support climate action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is expected that most of the funding awarded will be to support activities taking place after the COP26 conference, which runs from 1 November to 12 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The funder is particularly interested in applications from groups who are starting to think about taking action on climate change in their communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The deadline to apply is 18 November 2021 (5pm).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations have just over a month to apply for their share of a \u00a32.5 million climate engagement fund ahead&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/10\/25\/together-for-our-planet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12392,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/12392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}