The latest round of the Department for Education’s Condition Improvement Fund is now open to academies, multi-academy trusts, sixth-form colleges, and voluntary aided schools across England. The Fund provides capital funding for projects of up to £4 million which help keep school and college buildings safe and in good working order. This includes funding projects to address health and safety issues, building compliance, energy efficiency, and poor building conditions. A small proportion of expansion projects will also be supported. This round of funding will give priority to projects that replace coal and oil boilers with low carbon heating systems to prevent school closure. The deadline for applications is 12pm on the 7th December 2022. Funding for Building Maintenance & Improvements for Education Establishments (England)

On 22 August 2022 The London Community Foundation began fundraising for our Together for London cost-of-living appeal, which you can read more about on our website. Since then, we have been receiving generous donations from new and existing donors.

We will shortly begin distributing these funds to charities and organisations across London in the form of small grants to help you support your beneficiaries with increased costs due to the cost-of-living crisis.

In times of crisis and struggle, it’s important that we are as transparent as possible. That’s why we want to tell you about our intentions to launch the fund and how it will work. We hope this is one way we can help you plan ahead during this crisis period.

Key details for application

We will be launching the Together for London Fund on Thursday 27 October.

We know funds need to get out quickly, so we will be keeping the first round of the fund open for applications until 12 noon on Thursday 17 November (three-week application window).

We expect (at this stage) to be launching with £1 million and expect to be making grants of up to £10,000 each. This means we expect to make around 100 grants.

Keeping you updated

We will keep communicating with you to ensure, should things change, we can provide you with updates as soon as possible. We will also be hosting question and answer sessions where you can speak directly to our Grants and Impact team – so please look out for these dates.

For full details on the fund so far, please see our website below. Click here

 

A small number of grants are available for organisations, community groups, local events, and activities that help to build public and political support for the Warm This Winter campaign. They are especially interested in supporting groups working in the areas of fuel poverty, housing, disability rights, climate justice, or on alternative solutions. Learn more here.

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has announced that Phase 3b of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme is expected to open to applications from public sector organisations in England in October 2022. Up to £635 million in funding will be allocated to single and multi-year projects for the installation of low carbon heating in public sector buildings when existing fossil-fuelled systems reach the end of their working lives. Applications will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis until a ‘sector soft cap’ has been reached. These caps have been introduced to allocate the funding fairly across education, health, and other sectors (emergency services, theatres, prisons etc). The opening date will be confirmed in due course. Phase 3b of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to Open for Applications (England)