Projects which received grant
2005 - 2006
BTCV Scotland - £25,000 in each year, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 and Lower Clyde Greenspace - £20,000 in 2005-06, £15,000 in 2006-07 and £15,000 in 2007-08. 3-year projects in Inverclyde to enhance greenspace provision in areas undergoing renewal. Enhancing environmental justice, these encouraged the involvement of disadvantaged communities to give them confidence in influencing their local environment. They were carried out by BTCV Scotland and Lower Clyde Greenspace.
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £21,000 in 2005-06, £29,000 in 2006-07 and £35,000 in 2007-08. Raising awareness of the benefits of community-managed gardens and encouragement of local food production were aims of the Federation of City Farms project. City farms and Community Gardens aim for the production of fresh food, meeting local needs in a sustainable way.
Sustain Dundee - £20,500 in 2005-06 for an environmental mapping initiative in Dundee. The purpose was to engage the city's most deprived communities to provide them with the capacity to participate in decisions affecting the quality of their environment, helping address environmental justice issues. Connecting environmental issues with other social and economic problems arising in communities, this promoted a culture in which people are re-associated with their local environment.
Edinburgh Woodcraft Folk - £26,000 in 2005-06 for a project by a national youth organisation with 500 groups across Britain. This project took a trailer with energy supply equipment to audiences of young people in the Lothians, as a practical educational tool in the use of sustainable energy. The trailer demonstrated solar electric and solar thermal power, and the alternative of wind generation.
Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges - Scotland Branch - £39,500 in 2005-06, £39,500 in 2006-07, £39,950 in 2007-08. This delivered a review and action plan for promotion of sustainable production and consumption within Universities and Colleges in Scotland. It identified and promoted reduction of key resource streams - energy, travel, resources/waste. It engaged with Estates and Procurement professionals and with the student body.
Borders Machinery Ring and Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology - £38,438 in 2005-06 and £37,438 in 2006-07 for the development of composting service provision by farmers in the Scottish Borders. This project delivered action in resource use, diverting biodegradable waste from landfill. It served as a model which, spreading awareness to other machinery rings, could be replicated in other regions of Scotland.