Fund will focus on helping communities to take lead in tackling climate emergency, such as through green energy and transport projects
The National Lottery Community Fund has today launched a £100m Climate Action Fund to support a range of community-led activities towards tackling climate change and protecting the environment.
The new fund will build a network of people and communities "well-placed to drive change within, between and beyond their community", the National Lottery said.
Activities funded will differ from place to place, but could include green energy, low emission transport, sustainable food and consumption, and environmental and wildlife regeneration, it explained.
Dawn Austwick, chief executive of The National Lottery Community Fund, said the impact of efforts towards tackling climate change "will be greater if we come together within and across communities", and that everyone can play their part.
"This is why, thanks to National Lottery players, we are launching the Climate Action Fund to create grassroots momentum built on learning and sharing within, between and beyond communities - in order to achieve meaningful and sustained climate action," she said.
The National Lottery Community Fund said it had already invested millions of pounds in a range of environmental projects both large and small across the UK, as part of its wider funding efforts which have seen it make over 200,000 grants since 2004, awarding over £9bn in total.