ECO DEVELOPMENT FUND.
The WLCAN ECO Development Fund supports grassroots groups in a wide variety of projects spanning food growing, energy efficiency measures, environmental training and conservation. WLCAN Hub was awarded £160k for 2024/25, and this included an extra £10k to go to a second round of ECO projects.
Successful applicants to the fund were informed in October 2024. Project work is to be completed by March 2025. A smaller amount was available from Scottish Government funding compared with the previous awards, but WLCAN hopes to top this up and we will support ten groups with new projects or advancements from previous work.
The second-round projects WLCAN is funding can be viewed in the following link:
WLCAN ECO Fund 2 Final Awards pdf
The first ECO Fund Awards disbursed a total of £45,950 in the last financial year. These project summaries can be viewed on the following link:
