NEF's programme of work on climate change and the benefits of small-scale renewable energy



LATEST GRANTS

The following grants have been approved in the year 2005/2006.

Environmental Projects UK

  • Aviation Environment Federation
  • Trustees confirmed a grant towards the “flyless.org” website to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of aviation and to enable companies and individuals to pay a voluntary flight environment tax.
    http://www.aef.org.uk/

  • Green Alliance
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the work to devise and communicate a strategy for local involvement in the production and use of power and a grant towards the advocacy work to feed into the Government’s energy review consultation process
    http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/

  • IPPR
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the programme of work on climate change.
    http://www.ippr.org.uk/

  • The Soil Association
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the development of the Food for Life Charter Mark in UK schools.
    http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf?Open

  • Transport 2000 Trust
  • Trustees approved a grant towards policy seminars on road-user charging.
    http://www.transport2000.org.uk/

Environmental Projects Overseas

  • Coral Bones
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the Coral Bones project.
    http://coralstory.blogspot.com/

  • Developing Technologies
  • Trustees approved a grant towards a staffing position to enable successful dialogue between the projects on the ground in the developing world and the engineering students at Imperial College.
    http://www.developingtechnologies.org/

  • Terik Eco-Linguistic Project, West Kenya
  • Trustees approved a grant to TELIP towards the eco-linguistic project in West Kenya.
  • Themba Trust
  • Trustees approved a grant over two years towards the pilot project to develop a model of commercial provision of solar electricity in Tanzania.
    http://www.thembatrust.org.uk/index.html

Sustainable Regeneration

People at Risk

  • Broadway
  • Trustees approved a grant over two years towards a study and initial project work by Lemos and Crane into the provision of services necessary to support newly arrived eastern European people at risk.
    http://www.broadwaylondon.org/

  • Employment Focus
  • Trustees approved a grant over two years towards the outreach work among hidden communities at risk in UK cities.

  • Forward Thinking
  • Trustees approved a grant towards a project to tackle radicalisation amongst Muslim student populations in the UK.

  • Project 58, Torquay
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the Reversing Trends programme of work.

  • Saint Petroc’s Society, Cornwall
  • Trustees approved a grant towards the employment costs of a resettlement manager to work with young people at risk in Penzance’s Breadline Centre.
    http://www.stpetrocs.org.uk/

Community Arts

  • ADEP Website
  • Trustees approved a grant over two years towards the development of ADEP.
    http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/

  • Paddock Productions, Sussex
  • Trustees approved a grant towards Elsie Piddock Skips, a touring outdoor production for children on an environmental theme.

  • Swallow Theatre, Dumfries and Galloway
  • Summer drama workshops for young people in Whithorn run by Theatre Modo from Glasgow.
    http://www.swallowtheatre.com/main.htm?main=map.htm

Social Investment Fund