Are you breaking new ground in cutting CO2 emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy generation? Are you changing behaviour and encouraging more sustainable forms of transport? If so, the Ashden Awards would like to hear from you.
Entry for the Awards is free, with winners receiving up to £10,000 to £20,000. But winning an Ashden Award is about more than the prize money.
Transition Town Totnes is fortunate when it comes to raising funds for projects. For starters, this is where the Transition movement began over five years ago and is now home to both TTT and the Transition Network (TN). With a track record and available paid staff time, writing grants is just a regular part of doing business.
I love money; I love the way it helps make things happen. So when the transition started in Lewes I was quite happy to look for ways to pay someone to run the office. We managed to get £20,000 for a two-year part time post from Esmee Fairbairn and have continued to have a funded post for communications from various sources.
Berti Investments, supported by James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw Impact Partners, are looking to champion three outstanding businesses for the Berti Green Accelerator programme.
Callout to London Transition Initiatives in Olympic boroughs - derelict land regeneration fund now open
This looks worthy of further investigation if you're in one of the 6 Olympic boroughs: Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest.
I'm not looking at as big a picture as Ann and Adrienne, more like the middle distance, the regional picture. What I have discovered so far about the wider Transition agenda in Scotland.
Are you breaking new ground in cutting CO2 emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy generation? Are you changing behaviour and encouraging more sustainable forms of transport? If so, the Ashden Awards would like to hear from you.
