[OPEN] Climate & Environmental Justice — Round One

Summary

Introduction

Climate and environmental injustice is a social justice and human rights issue shaped by wider inequalities linked to race, income, disability, migration status, age, health, and housing, among other factors. It affects people’s health, wellbeing, safety, and daily lives through extreme heat, poor housing conditions, flooding, air or water pollution, food insecurity, and limited access to green spaces.

This funding round supports community-led organisations working with people living in London who are most affected by climate-related harm and environmental challenges.

The work that would be supported

We’re offering core and flexible funding to community‑led organisations delivering climate and environmental justice work in London through one or more of the following three funding approaches: 

1. Place-based resilience

Community‑led action addressing climate and environmental harm experienced in a specific place, location or community.

For example, supporting communities during heatwaves while working together to improve local housing and access to green spaces. Systems change could include influencing local decisions, building community power, or shifting how climate issues are understood and addressed, from within communities to wider society.

2. Community organising and influence

Supporting communities most affected by environmental harm, and building collective power through social action, campaigning and influencing decisions. 

For example, supporting communities to organise and campaign on issues such as housing, flooding and pollution. Systems change could include influencing local planning and policy decisions.

3. Storytelling and narrative change

Work that shifts how climate-related harm and environmental challenges are understood and addressed, starting from lived experience and local relevance, and influencing wider narratives.

For example, using storytelling to highlight the lived experiences of air pollution. Systems change could involve challenging dominant narratives and influencing how climate issues are understood, from lived experience to wider public understanding.

This infographic brings together the key elements of what we’re looking to fund.

Infographic description: Infographic showing grant application requirements. The title reads ​‘All applicants must deliver work through one or more of these three approaches’. Three numbered boxes sit across the top: 1) Place-based resilience, 2) Community organising and influence, 3) Storytelling and narrative change. Arrows from all three boxes point down to a central box labelled ​‘Responding to immediate needs’. Below that, the text ​‘Building towards’ points to a final box via an arrow: ​‘Contributing to long-term systems change’.

Read our Funding Guidelines for more in-depth examples of our three funding approaches.

Funding GuidelinesDOCX | 343 KB

How much you can apply for

The total amount available for this funding round is £5.6m. 

How to apply

Applications open on Monday 6 July 2026.

From this date, you’ll be able to apply through our Application Portal. The link will be added to this page when applications open.

Before you apply, please use our Eligibility Checker to find out if your organisation is eligible for this funding round.