£10m Climate Negative Challenge Fund - Launch

This fund will offer grants to projects which demonstrate innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and, in-turn, accelerate the region towards its ambition of achieving carbon-negative by 2040.

Could your project be key to helping York and North Yorkshire accelerate to its goal of becoming England’s first carbon negative region? The Carbon Negative Challenge Fund is now open to schemes which are innovative in nature and have the potential to inspire communities and even change the way our region drives decarbonisation.

The £7million fund welcomes both revenue and capital projects, and seeks applications from public and private sectors, as well as community groups, charities and collaborative partnerships. Projects must be ambitious, with the potential to scale up, and make a direct and regional impact on reducing greenhouse gasses.

Our minimum revenue grant allocation is £20,000 however, if you are an organisation wishing to discuss a smaller project, please contact us through the general ‘Get In Touch’ form at the foot of this page. Capital projects are welcome to apply for grants of up to £1.5million.  Find out more, or access the application process by following the links below:

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£2.3m Skills Innovation Fund - Launch

The Skills Innovation Fund is a £2,375,000 grant fund to support skills development in the York and North Yorkshire region over a timeframe of two years, from April 2025 to March 2027.

This fund will offer grants to skills providers, collaborations encouraged. You can find full details below.

This programme is open for applications from Wednesday 5th February to Wednesday 5th March 2025

Capital and revenue grant funding is available to FE & HE Sector Organisations, Local Authority Skills Providers, Independent Training Providers, and VCSE Sector Skills providers, applying as individual organisations, partnerships, or consortiums

Applicants should name as many partners as they can in their application to the Skills Innovation Fund, but we understand there may be circumstances where it may not be possible to name all up front and that changes can occur once a project commences. In all applications, it would be helpful to understand if there is a possibility you will need to add additional partners. For successful applicants, if there are partners you wish to include at a later date, please contact us for a discussion.

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From what we’ve heard so far, this fund will provide grants and support for the development of new markets, new products and new services. Any sector, any stage or size of business. For more information contact Michaela Young at Economic Development, Regeneration, Tourism & Skills – NYC

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