Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC) has secured a share of almost £10 million made available through the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund. ELREC has received £108,687.
The Climate Challenge Fund is a Scottish Government grant programme that is managed and administered by Keep Scotland Beautiful.
The Communities for Conservation project is run by local charity ELREC and offers free support to help people and minority communities reduce their carbon footprint through energy saving, cycling and food growing as well as supplying information and home advice visits to help householders reduce energy use, carbon emissions and move out of fuel poverty.
Foysol Choudhury MBE, Chair of ELREC said: “We are really pleased to receive this support and recognition to help us continue and extend our work helping and supporting minority communities to engage with climate change and the environment. We thank the Climate Challenge Fund.”
Jean-Matthieu Gaunand, Project Coordinator at ELREC said: “We aim to help people from minority ethnic communities living in Edinburgh and Livingston, we will be holding workshops and community events, please get in touch and get involved.”
David Gunn, Climate Challenge Fund Manager at Keep Scotland Beautiful said:“We are delighted that ELREC has been successful in securing funding from the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund and encourage the local community to take advantage of support available through the Communities for Conservation project.
“We look forward to supporting ELREC as they implement their project and empowering many more communities to take action on climate change. We see it as part of our work to make Scotland clean, green and more sustainable.”
Since the Climate Challenge Fund was introduced in 2008, 622 communities across Scotland have been awarded grants totalling £85.8 million to run community-led projects that reduce local carbon emissions, improve their local areas and help them adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Learn more about Communities for Conservation at www.elrec.org.uk/project/
Further information at www.climatechallengefund.org
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