Cabinet Secretary for the Environment Richard Lochhead announced on November 4, 2008 a total of £1,165,761 awarded to 18 projects in the second round of grants from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund. These projects will act to reduce emissions and the carbon footprint of local communities.
The projects offered grant are:
REAP (Rural Environmental Action Project), Keith, Banffshire - Community Carbon Challenge will develop 'Grampian Thermal Surveys', and roll out the Community Carbon Pack, developed along with Moray Council and SNH - £138,776
Transition Town Forres Ltd, Forres, Moray - Aims to lower the community carbon footprint by awareness raising, allotments creation, community engagement and developing a farmers market - £184,119
Alyth Environmental Group, Alyth, Perth and Kinross - Aims to develop the Alyth green travel plan and 'hot office'; investigate the feasibility of developing a partnership project with a number of large employers who have a high level of commuters living in or near Alyth, creating an outpost office where employees can hot desk in a local based, cost shared, office building - £11,750
Loch Tay Community Interest Company, Loch Tay, Perth and Kinross - The Big Shed project is a proposed new build community mixed use building that will contribute to the local economy and infrastructure by providing affordable work and social spaces for local community groups, social enterprises and micro-businesses. Funding has been awarded to go towards the Ecological Building Elements and a Ecological Building Skills Training Programme. £91,036
Sleat Community Trust, Skye, Highland - A Clean Sleat project propose a two-year programme which aims to reduce Sleat's carbon emissions by 33 per cent through local initiatives and community engagement - £99,000
Cairngorms Outdoors Access Trust, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire - The Strathdon School Path project is to construct an off-road all-abilities path to allow children to walk or cycle to Strathdon Primary School from the Roughpark and Bellabeg areas. The project will measure the number of parents who no longer drive their children to school once the path has been built - £25,000
Linlithgow Climate Challenge, Linlithgow, West Lothian - Setting the foundation to produce and distribute a questionnaire to gather community views on climate change to help decide how best to engage with the community - £2,000
Toryglen Gardening Club, Toryglen, Glasgow - Toryglen Transitions will maintain community gardens, orchards and woodlands and set up a community composting scheme to increase productivity of food crops with the aim of the produce being sold back to the community through local outlets or box schemes - £134,184
Edinburgh Community Backgreens Initiative, Edinburgh - Backgreen propose regeneration workshops to connect tenement residents with the natural environment and one another. This will provide a platform for the creation of carbon reduction plans and a carbon weight watchers activity - £73,090
Raploch Community Partnership (RCP), Raploch, Stirling - Feasibility study on opportunities for reducing carbon emissions in Raploch during regeneration - £10,000
Shetland Amenity Trust, Shetland - Decrease CO2 footprint will work with the community of Shetland on a wide range of carbon reduction measures such as energy reduction, transport use and education, using a full time carbon reduction officer - £92,013
Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland, Fife - Scoping study of transition aiming to investigate increased communication within Falkland communities, increase local resilience to food and fuel supply changes, decrease carbon emissions, improve engagement of Falkland village with the Estate and rural communities - £9,500
Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust, Scotstoun, Whiteinch, Yoker, Knightswood and Drumchapel, Glasgow - Climate Challenge CLEAR Project will recruit and train local people to conduct a community survey of attitudes and barriers to addressing climate change - £45,920
Crichton Carbon Centre, Dumfries and Galloway - the Carbon Busters project involves pupils and teachers in four schools collaborating with the Crichton carbon Centre to reduce school carbon footprints - the ultimate aim being to reduce carbon emissions by 15 per cent - £37,500
Equal Green Partnership CIC, Linlithgow, West Lothian - Green Flag at Home will look at reducing the carbon footprint at household level by changing behaviour in partnerships with Linlithgow primary schools - £49,574
Sustainable Haddington Steering Group, Haddington, East Lothian - to cover legal and regulatory costs of setting up the formal organisation Sustainable Haddington Ltd which aims to promote and support local action on climate change and sustainable living - £5,000
Portobello Energy Descent and Land Reform Group, Portobello, Edinburgh - Portobello Transition Town have a broad climate change awareness raising programme including audits of domestic energy, transport and food - £47,760
Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust - Isle of Eigg's fossil fuel reduction and outreach programme will reduce CO2 emissions through an extensive programme of insulation and energy conservation, replacement of fossil fuels and train a member of the community to install solar water panels in community and domestic properties. They will share their work with communities across Scotland through an online outreach programme called "build your own green island" - £109,539.