{"id":183,"date":"2025-07-25T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/climate-action\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:18:12","slug":"community-climate-action-fund-phase-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/climate-action\/community-climate-action-fund-phase-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Climate Action Fund Phase 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Climate Action Programme is a new programme to support small and large, rural and urban communities to take climate action at a local level. Monaghan County Council\u00a0is delighted to welcome the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications of a new Community Climate Action Fund, which will become available to support communities to promote and assist in the scale up of community climate action.<\/p>\n<p>The overall objective of the programme is to shape and build low carbon, sustainable communities in a coherent way to contribute to national climate and energy targets.<\/p>\n<h4>There are two strands:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Strand 1- Action: Building Low Carbon\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Communities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monaghan County have been \u00a0given an allocation of \u20ac392,000 for projects under strand 1.\u00a0 Under this scheme communities will carry out projects that have a\u00a0<u>direct<\/u>\u00a0climate action impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strand 1a- Shared Island Community Climate Action:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This strand has a national budget of \u20ac3 million to enable communities and local authorities to carry out a cross-border project in partnership with a community in Northern Ireland. Unlike strand 1, Local Authorities have not been automatically allocated funding under strand 1a and is open for all communities to apply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What groups are eligible?<\/h3>\n<p>Eligible\u00a0community organisations must:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be\u00a0not-for-profit.<\/li>\n<li>Be located within the\u00a0boundaries\u00a0of Monaghan County.<\/li>\n<li>Be registered with the Monaghan PPN or\u00a0be connected with other collectives such as\u00a0The Wheel, Tidy Towns,\u00a0or\u00a0be\u00a0a community group with Articles of Association, which hold an AGM with appropriately approved minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Project themes<\/h3>\n<p>Projects must demonstrate the delivery of national climate action at a local level for strand 1 and on a cross-border basis on the island of Ireland for strand 1a. There are five programme themes and communities should try to incorporate as many themes as possible. The themes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community energy<\/li>\n<li>Travel<\/li>\n<li>Food &amp; waste<\/li>\n<li>Shopping &amp; recycling<\/li>\n<li>Local climate &amp; environmental action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6674\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/07\/Add-a-little-bit-of-body-text-1-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><u>What groups are eligible?<\/u><\/h4>\n<p>Eligible community organizations must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be not for profit<\/li>\n<li>Located within the boundaries of County Monaghan<\/li>\n<li>Be registered with the PPN or connected with other collectives such as The Wheel, Tidy Towns or be a community group with Articles of Association, which hold an AGM with appropriately approved minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><u>Projects eligible for funding<\/u><\/h4>\n<p>The types of projects within communities which are eligible for funding under the Programme, should seek to demonstrate the delivery of national climate action at local level by:<\/p>\n<p>a) Reducing or supporting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions<\/p>\n<p>b) Increasing the production, or use, of renewable energy<\/p>\n<p>c) Improving energy efficiency<\/p>\n<p>d) Increasing climate resilience<\/p>\n<p>e) Identifying nature-based projects that enhance biodiversity and seek to reduce, or increase the removal of, greenhouse gas emissions or support climate resilience in the State<\/p>\n<p>f) Involving potentially innovative solutions to address the above asks.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore:<\/p>\n<p>a) Projects must meet the objective \u201cto shape and build low carbon, sustainable communities in a coherent way to contribute to national climate and energy targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>b) Project must address one or more of the five programme themes, as set out below.<\/p>\n<p>c) Projects must comply with all statutory requirements in relation to planning, building regulations, Health and Safety, and Fire Codes etc., if applicable.<\/p>\n<p>d) Community groups must be able to demonstrate their ability to carry out the proposed works.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Project funding scales<\/h4>\n<p>Funding is available for 100% vouched expenditure of the project and there are three project sizes eligible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small scale projects &lt; \u20ac20,000<\/li>\n<li>Medium scale projects \u20ac20,000 to \u20ac50,000<\/li>\n<li>Large scale projects \u20ac50,000 to \u20ac100,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>How does the programme work?<\/h4>\n<p>Several projects will be selected which demonstrate climate action at a local level in Monaghan. Local communities will be selected following an Application phase and will carry-out their direct climate action projects over 18 months. Projects can include a suite of measures, not just one specific action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Community Climate Action Fund is now closed, phase 2 of the fund will open in Autumn 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Documents and Resources<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/02\/Monaghan-Briefing-note-and-Guideline-Document-for-Community-Climate-Action-Fund.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBriefing note and Guideline Document of Community Climate Action Fund (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Examples-of-Community-Climate-Action-Projects.pdf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Examples of Community Climate Action Projects (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/08\/Planning-your-project-and-applying-for-funding.pdf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Planning Your Project And Applying For Funding (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/02\/Community-Climate-Action-Fund-high-level-overview-.pdf\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Community Climate Action Fund High Level Overview<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(PDF)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Contact details<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:climateaction@monaghancoco.ie\">climateaction@monaghancoco.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tel:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"tel:00353429661240\">047 61176<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Climate Action Programme is a new programme to support small and large, rural and urban communities to take climate action at a local level. 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