The Dacorum Borough Council is accepting applications for the Green Community Grants Program to support projects in the community which benefit the environment, as well as Dacorum’s residents.

The purpose is to encourage and enable local groups to ‘think global and act local' whilst tackling environmental challenges.

In order to apply for funding, proposed Green Community Grant projects must demonstrate that they will actively help towards the mitigation of the Climate and Ecological Emergency locally. Your project will need to fit at least one (ideally more) of the Key Environmental Themes. The projects with the greatest impacts will be awarded the funding:

• Energy and emissions
  • Making community buildings more energy efficient and/or implementing renewable energy technology that will consequently reduce carbon emissions from powering and/or heating.
  • Removing or capturing carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
• Transport
  • Promoting active, healthy living by encouraging people to walk and cycle.
  • Reducing the need for cars
• Biodiversity
  • Improving local biodiversity by supporting the creation, protection, enhancement, monitoring and/or management of sustainable green spaces.
  • Supporting specific significant species and/or habitats.
• Waste and consumption
  • Reducing waste by enabling the local community to ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’. Projects that focus on the areas higher up the waste hierarchy (reduce and reuse) will score more highly.
  • Encouraging and/or enabling others to consume more sustainably – for example, eating more local, plant-based foods.

Funding Information

Applicants can apply for up to £2,000. 

Eligibility Criteria

• Constituted groups: Any voluntary or community group can apply, including those already in receipt of funds. These groups must comply with the following conditions:
  • hold a bank account in the name of the group, requiring at least two signatories,
  • have a Management Committee of at least three people,
  • be non-profit making or a social enterprise where profits are reinvested for community or social benefit,
  • operate with no undue restrictions on membership.
• Non-constituted groups: Informal / grass roots / non-constituted groups can apply. They must provide a letter of endorsement from a constituted charitable organisation, a local Councillor (Borough, Town and Parish Council), Police Community Support Officer or other similar representative on their organisation’s headed paper – if you are unsure on this, please contact them for advice.

For more information, visit Dacorum Borough Council.