CCF third round

Climate Challenge Fund Awards, Round 3

Cabinet Secretary for the Environment Richard Lochhead announced on January 15, 2009 the award of a total of £4,376,541 to 24 projects in the third round of grants from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund, to help Scotland play a leading role in the international fight against climate change.

The projects offered grant are:

Community Power Down - to recruit community project officers and provide resource to 27 mainly remote and rural communities to help them develop proposals to reduce their CO2 emissions. Each of the communities has identified up to five deliverables that would help them reduce their CO2 emissions - £1,494,579.

Strathpeffer to Dingwall All Abilities Community Link - to assess the potential for an off-road track to provide a carbon-free, safe travel option for commuters and local residents and link into the national cycle network, between Strathpeffer and Dingwall - £12,000.

Active Leith - to deliver sustainable travel promotional materials to 53,000 Leith residents, with an incentive scheme to encourage local residents to shop locally, rather than driving to out of town shopping centres, 20 Active Travel Coaches who will promote sustainable travel choices locally. ?and a 'text coaching' service to promote the project and support sustained participation - £282,935.

Community Climate Change Initiative (3Ci), North Edinburgh - adopting an anti-poverty approach in an area with high levels of deprivation, an initiative to support people to take collective action to reduce carbon footprint, with awareness raising, thematic action groups and a community action plan - £245,104.

Sustainable Solutions for Linlithgow - to secure a full-time project co-ordinator to promote sustainable lifestyles and engage the community into taking positive ecological action. Seven projects will focus on saving energy, researching options for renewable energy, engaging community and business groups, and developing local food, waste, recycling and transport strategies - £93,845.

Fife Diet - to build a mass network of people sourcing their food locally, engaging in a bioregional response to food security and boosting the local food economy, exploring several sites for collective growing as well as co-operative purchasing on a larger scale - £144,060.

Moffat CAN (Carbon Approaching Neutral) - public engagement, education and enablement, with a public information drop-in point with displays on carbon reduction, towards a first year modal shift from car to public transport, walking and cycling, and energy efficiency work in partnership with the Energy Agency to coordinate the installation of loft and / or cavity wall insulation - £98,415.

PIPER, Edinburgh - project management to complete a feasibility study and subsequent development and implementation through practical solutions of carbon emission reduction action plans in schools, homes and the wider communities of Currie, Balerno and Juniper Green, in the catchment area of Currie High School - £98,874.

Big Green Tarbert - to reduce community carbon footprint with practical steps towards becoming more energy efficient, with encouragement, help and advice, a partnership with Argyll Community Housing Association to tackle fuel poverty, and working towards installing a community-owned wind turbine - £128,605.

Girvan Community Windfarm - to carry out a feasibility study for a £4.5m windfarm in the vicinity of Grangestone Industrial Estate, by Girvan, to be part-owned by the local community. The community proposed installing a turbine as part of a wider regeneration project that received outline planning approval in 2007 - £55,000.

Zero Carbon Dunbar - two years of intensive community engagement to produce a vision of what Dunbar could look like as a zero carbon, locally resilient community, and then to use this vision to prepare a year-by-year action plan for how this could be achieved over the next 15 years. The second strand involves immediate action to drastically cut carbon emissions from energy use in homes - £271,530.

Towards Zero Carbon Bute- development of a programme of carbon reduction measures across the island - £213,000.

Climate Change and Our Lives, Kinghorn, Fife - workshops, practical training and local promotional events, culminating in community Action Plans for carbon reductions, in Kinghorn and area - £140,876.

Planning for a Sustainable Future for Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn - creating a building with low carbon emissions which the community will be involved in developing. The building will be an educational tool to demonstrate that sustainable methods of building are within the reach of everyone - £186,175.

Lochaber Household Renewable Energy Network - a Lochaber Micro Generation Project to establish an effective network to support action by householders who want to generate renewable energy - £100,985.

Westray Development Trust, Orkney - Biofuels and Fuel Poverty: to gather and provide further information on the community's attitude towards the issue of climate change by hosting an event on the topic early in the New Year, and developing a detailed action plan - £8,225.

West Carse Public Hall Insulation Project, Perth and Kinross - wet central heating system, insulated shutters, double glazed doors and window winding gear, energy efficient lighting, insulation, paying for a small percentage of the insulation with Schri paying the majority - £31,939.

Islay Community Carbon Saving Project - for an Islay Community Carbon Saving Project Development Officer responsible for the implementation of the Islay Community Carbon Saving Project through energy conservation and use of renewable energy technologies, overseeing the project and raising awareness of climate change issues - £117,000.

Wood and Wool, Lamancha, Carlops and Howgate, Scottish Borders - to reduce carbon emissions by helping up to 100 local households improve their insulation and/ or convert partly or wholly from oil to wood as a fuel; encourage changes in personal lifestyle in these households and the community more widely; renovate a disused privately owned barn to create an energy advice centre; and develop a sustainable wood supply chain to assist the community move from oil to wood fuel as their main energy source - £135,350.

Climate Champions at the Big Tent Festival, Fife - to promote the reduction of carbon emissions through the Big Tent festival, Scotland's top Eco Festival, and one of the country's leading family-friendly events - £50,000.

Recyke-a-Bike Sustainable Transport, Stirling - a scheme in the Forth Valley area based upon the use of reused bicycles where they encourage people to travel to work on them. The aim is to encourage 500 people in the Forth Valley area to travel to work by bicycle - £182,350.

Pitreavie Carbon Reduction Project, Fife - energy audit and development of appropriate plans for emissions reduction, recycling and other action related to energy use in the athletics clubhouse and reducing individual car use - £4,200.

River Ericht Hydro Scheme, Perth and Kinross - to carry out a full feasibility study of the scheme on the River Ericht which will look at the potential power generating capacity at the sites highlighted in a pre-feasibility study and will also detail any issues which need to be considered in the further development of the scheme - £138,494.

Carbon Reduction Action and Information Centre (CRAIC), Dundee - research to establish baseline information on CO2 emissions/ fuel poverty levels. Awareness raising/ education and action groups, encouraging local food growing and community gardening and recycling commercial and domestic food waste - £143,000.