Climate Action Fund - Learning & Support Partners

The National Lottery Community Fund (“the Fund”) is seeking to procure a suitable supplier to facilitate and deliver support and learning across the Climate Action Fund (“CAF”) grantees, between 2024-2030 (7-year contract). The contract shall be for an initial four years with an option to extend for three periods of up to 12 months each.

The Climate Action Fund is a 10-year £100m commitment (2020-2030 ) to support communities across the UK to take action on climate. CAF aims to deliver community-led climate action to those who need it most. Its vision is to ‘empower and inspire people in local communities across the UK to take positive action on the climate and ecological emergencies’. These communities will demonstrate what is possible when people take the lead in tackling climate change, helping those around them to thrive, improving equity and responding to intersectional issues. They work together, share their learning and are active participants in a broader movement of change.

CAF aims to support projects that will have a legacy beyond our funding and that, where relevant, are able to point towards longer-term systemic change. The programme also aims to encourage and inspire more and more people across the UK via the funded projects and the activities and work they deliver, to take climate action in their own communities and providing them with the tools to do so.

The procured supplier(s) will aim to:

1. To enable the funded projects to network and collaborate with one another, help them to identify ways in which to share their activities and learning, both individually and collectively, and engage, inspire and enable other communities to play their part . The successful supplier(s) will work with the projects to build their skills, capacity and knowledge to enable them to deliver impactful community led-climate action.
2. To work closely with the projects to generate and facilitate evidence about community-led action. We hope evidence generated from the programme will remove barriers, create opportunities for cross sector collaboration and unlock further investment for community-led climate action.
3. To support projects to develop an ambitious, creative and strategic programme of communications which will provide inspiration to further community-led acclimate action. This strand of work will also involve targeted design and dissemination of learning and evidence generated by the programme about community-led climate action to reach grant holders and wider audiences.

This contract will interest organisations with expertise (including but not limited to) such as, an understanding of the VCSE including the environment sector and community-led climate action, research, behaviour change science, facilitation and networking, communication including narrative and creative content development, audience segmentation and engagement.

The Fund will welcome tenders from individual organisations or, more likely, partnerships that can collectively demonstrate their ability to project manage, develop and carry out appropriate approaches to the work. Additional information: Please note that The National Lottery Community Fund does not undertake to enter into any contractual agreement on the basis of this Prior Information Notice.

Any correspondence in relation to this notice must be direct via our e-tendering portal - tnlcommunityfund.bravosolution.co.uk ↗