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A huge thank you to everyone who donated to and shared our Earth Raise match fundraising campaign! We’re delighted to have raised £6,584 to support more communities to take climate action and give our Community Leaders the tools they need to lead meaningful, lasting change in the places they know best.

As the need for climate action becomes increasingly important, and the impacts of our changing climate continue to disproportionately affect our most vulnerable communities, Community Leaders play a vital role in ensuring those communities are protected. As a crucial piece of our social infrastructure, more Community Leaders can now have access to the tools and knowledge they need to create better climate outcomes, build resilience, and ensure the people they serve are more equipped for the challenges ahead.

This is all thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the pound-for-pound match funding from Plan Aid during this year’s Big Give Earth Raise.

What Your Donations Deliver

The funds we’ve raised will enable at least 8 community organisations to access the Community Leaders Toolkit for free, putting Carbon Literacy training in the hands of more than 120 community leaders. And the impact will stretch far beyond the training itself – into the communities those leaders serve.

The Toolkit itself contains everything needed to deliver a full day of Carbon Literacy training: a slide deck, a trainer manual, examples of best practice, and all the supporting documentation required. It is a complete, peer-developed training package designed with and for the leaders at the heart of our communities. These materials lay the groundwork for more climate action, more community connection, and a more sustainable future. It meets our leaders where they are and it gives them what they need to take the next step.

Every learner who completes their Carbon Literacy training will pledge two climate actions: one individual and one group. That means not only will this campaign support 8 organisations and 120 leaders, but also 240 climate actions to reduce emissions now and into the future. These actions are not just small steps towards sustainability, but they cascade outward into networks, other organisations, families and neighbourhoods – establishing compounding change that no single intervention alone can make.

For the charities, and community and faith organisations involved, the benefits are also deeply practical. Carbon Literacy helps them to become more efficient, reduce waste, align with funding requirements, and make a stronger case for more support. These aren’t incidental benefits – they make community organisations, and communities by extension, more resilient over time. Carbon Literate leaders aren’t only better equipped to act on the climate, they’re better equipped in general.

Connection Is the Point

From the outset, our campaign was about more than climate education; it was about investing in the connective tissue of our communities. The people and organisations that hold things together, particularly during our fragmented times. We are living through a period of real social strain, and it’s in these moments that community organisations illustrate how crucial they are to the people who benefit from their services and support. Right now, they’re being asked to do more with less – and the funds we’ve raised during this campaign help give them the tools they need to make those resources stretch a little further.

Carbon Literacy gives community leaders a shared language around climate change and a practical framework to act. But the training also builds confidence and inspires hope for a better future. It creates confidence to act, lead, and bring others along – connecting climate action to the challenges communities face.

Thank you

As a charity with no central funding, we rely on donations as an important part of how we fund the work we do. Campaigns like this are how we extend our reach to the communities that need these tools the most. Every share and donation matters, and we want to thank everyone who has supported our campaign and spread the message.

The Community Leaders Toolkit remains available, and our work to make it as widely accessible as possible continues. If you’re a community organisation that wants to find out more about accessing the Toolkit, or if you’d like to support our work going forward, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more about our work with Community Leaders here.