Year 3 – 2024/25
Applications for year 3 closed on 7 January 2024.
11 organisations were successful in getting funding for their decarbonisation projects, for a total of 13 projects. The total amount of funding awarded is £75,532.90.
The successful year 3 projects are listed here.
Micro-grants
- Clyde Area Residents’ Association: purchase a thermal camera for local residents to show heat losses in their homes to encourage energy savings
- Willow Primary School:
- reduce school lunch food waste by changing the habits of children and kitchen staff
- facilitate school uniform shop swap, by expanding the lifespan of clothes through mending
- Haringey Borough Women’s Football Club: establish a local recycling hub for football boots and sports shoes re-used by the local community to allow greater access to sport
- West Green Playgroup: changing behaviours through co-designed mural art, to be measured by the waste materials collected by the children to reuse
- Ferry Lane Primary School: undertake a feasibility assessment to ascertain the potential carbon savings that can be implemented with capital funding
- Footprint for Good: deliver workshops repurposing upcycled wood to create habitat boxes
- Mottainai: deliver free workshops to upskill residents on mending, upcycling and creating sustainable fashion (measured by number of garments mended)
Medium-grants
- Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust:
- install a photovoltaic (PV) array onto the roof of the Sports Pavilion
- replacement of legacy lighting units on the palace terrace with new transformers, internal wiring and LEDs
- Hornsey Vale Community Association: undertake a feasibility study for low-carbon alternatives to existing gas heating system and explore approaches to low-carbon energy with neighbouring sites
- Woodshop of Recycled Delights: deliver reclaimed material carpentry workshops in collaboration with Haringey’s community gardens to tackle timber waste, improve community spaces and behaviour change
- Jacksons Lane: retrofitting Jacksons Lane’s Theatre lighting stock to LED and offering re-use of replaced stock to small companies
Year 2 – 2023/24
Applications for year 2 closed on 6 January 2023.
7 organisations were successful in getting funding for their projects. The total amount of funding awarded was £85,944.
The 7 organisations and projects, along with their current status are listed here.
Completed:
- Ten87 Studios has successfully installed rooftop solar photovoltaic panels to generate around 22,799 kWh per year saving nearly 5 tonnes in carbon emissions annually
- Muswell Hill Methodist Church has successfully installed a trial air source heat pump providing heating to a room used by the local community and organisations
- the Haringey Go Green team used the microgrant to organise carbon footprinting workshops for small businesses as part of the Big Green Week and London Climate Action Week in June 2023
- the Cypriot Community Centre has replaced their existing lighting on the ground and first floors of their building and installed LED lighting
- the People’s Pantry has used the microgrant to repair their sewing machine to produce recycled linen and fabric bags for food refills and deliveries; since then they have ceased trading
In progress:
- the Ubele Initiative have been selected to receive part-funding for the Eat Wood Green project on Bury Road car park - the money will fund:
- an electric e-cargo bike for local deliveries of produce, seeds and equipment
- installation of a solar photovoltaic panel system to generate around 12,072 kWh of renewable energy per year
- installation of a rainwater harvesting system for their wider food growing project
- local resident, Daniel, received the microgrant to organise a community pop-up event for local business owners to promote sustainability and carbon reduction in the events and hospitality industry
Contact us for more information about the projects.
Year 1 – 2022/23
In the first year of funding, 6 organisations received funding to reduce carbon and empower the community. The total amount of funding awarded was £73,414.
Read our press release to find out about the first organisations to receive funding and their projects.