Community Pot
Want to empower your community to take climate action, but facing funding barriers?
We’re all feeling the effects of climate change, and most of us want to do something about it. But those on the frontlines of climate change – who are often least responsible for causing the problem to begin with – also have fewer tools to enact the change they want to see.
Carbon Literacy® training is one proven and reliable tool for delivering action to cut carbon emissions and improve the health and prosperity of our communities in the process. Climate action is for everyone, but access to training varies due to relative spending power.
What is on offer?
Get support from the Community Pot
Our Community Pot is a fund that aims to improve access to Carbon Literacy training for those who might otherwise struggle to afford the costs associated with initiating training.
The funded services available include:
- Course accreditation
- Certificate applications
- Access to our relevant sectoral materials
- Additional support to establish your CL Initiative
- Assistance with comms to amplify your work
The Community Pot has been created with contributions from organisations that have paid enhanced rates for Carbon Literacy Certificate Applications.
Who can apply?
Who does the Community Pot support?
Each year we organise various rounds to fund Carbon Literacy initiatives with different groups in mind. In 2024, as well as a successful pilot, we ran funding rounds to support groups in the Global South and those connected to Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority communities in the UK.
Want to bring Carbon Literacy to your community, funded by the Community Pot? Send your ideas to communityfund@carbonliteracy.com.
How to apply
Applications for our most recent funding round are now closed.
We are busy reviewing applications for our most recent funding round, aimed at Black, Asian, & Ethnic Minority community groups based in the UK. Check back soon or subscribe to our newsletter for monthly updates and future opportunities.
Meet the Global South Round Recipients
Our first public Community Pot funding round provided the equivalent of £25,000 in funded services to 13 low-income and underrepresented groups across countries in the Global South.
Meet the recipient groups, spanning Central and South America to Africa, and discover the unique Carbon Literacy initiatives they are implementing to empower local communities to take meaningful climate action.
Meet the Global South Round Recipients here.
"We need to face up to this major challenge, partly because of the health and quality of life of our own residents. We want to clean up the air that they breathe, we want to reduce the use of plastic that's cluttering our rivers and our green spaces. We want to put Greater Manchester in a position of leadership on this crucial issue that will shape the 21st century, but if we are to succeed it does require radical action now."
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
You can't necessarily on a day-to-day basis see the impact of climate change but all these things are happening and they're things that have implications for our survival. [With Carbon Literacy] people are consistently coming away with that understanding and, critically, with the motivation to do something about it … they leave the room pumped and ready to go.
Richard Smith, Sustainability Manager at the BBC – CLT
By teaching about Climate Change in lessons I feel like we are helping to save the world in a small way. I am very proud that a lot of pupils gained the Carbon Literacy award. I know that there are many, many more of our pupils who are capable of this now. They are confident enough to talk about the science of Climate Change and how to stop it increasing. These pupils now have the confidence to teach others about Global Warming and Climate Change. They have taught parents, pupils, outside agency and schools in other countries.
Margaret Lynch-Deakin, Teacher at Heald Place Primary School