Haringey Community Carbon Fund successful applications

On this page you can find information on the successful applications for:

  • year 4 – 2025 to 2026
  • year 3 – 2024 to 2025
  • year 2 – 2023 to 2024
  • year 1 – 2022 to 2023

Year 4 – 2025/26

Applications for year 4 closed on 5 January 2025.

10 organisations were successful in getting funding for their decarbonisation projects, for a total of 10 projects. The total amount of funding awarded is £103,205.59.

The successful year 4 projects are listed here.

Micro-grants

  • Harmony Gardens at Broadwater Farm: install a hot compost to reduce emissions and run workshops for locals about the benefits of home composting and reducing food waste
  • Bounds Green Food Bank: installing shelves and lights for the storage space to expand handouts of preloved clothing and household items
  • Gardens Residents Association: raise awareness through a series of workshops and activities of the impact of carbon emissions
  • Waste Not London: reducing household waste by promoting the reuse of household items through awareness raising using printed panels in the housing estate
  • Footprint for Good: carry out the Repair Restore Respect (RRR) furniture programme to work towards a circular economy and generate entrepreneurship skills empowering marginalised young people

Medium/large-grants

  • St. Ann’s Church: undertake an energy audit – a feasibility study for the church's carbon reduction
  • Power Up North London: undertake a structural survey of Highgate Wood School's roofs and initiate the licence, agreements and consents to enable a 154 kWp solar photovoltaic project
  • Antwerp Arms Association: install solar photovoltaic panels (of around 4.5 kWp capacity) with battery storage, and promote green energy and cost savings to other Haringey pubs
  • Collage Arts: deliver a creative sustainable engagement programme with Let's Go Zero with 4 schools in Haringey to enable them to become more sustainable and encourage communities and the wider borough to go net zero
  • Alexandra Palace Trust: upgrade the thermal efficiency of the Old Station building by installing secondary glazing to windows and roof lights, reviewing doors and installing draughtproofing seals

Year 3 – 2024/25

11 organisations were successful in getting funding for their decarbonisation projects, for a total of 13 projects. The total amount of funding awarded is £75,532.90.

The successful year 3 projects are listed here.

Clyde Area Residents’ Association

Purchase a thermal camera for local residents to show heat losses in their homes to encourage energy savings.

Thermal imaging event

Willow Primary School

Willow Primary School is:

  • reducing school lunch food waste by changing the habits of children and kitchen staff
  • facilitating a school uniform shop swap, by expanding the lifespan of clothes through mending
School uniform swap shop

Haringey Borough Women's Football Club

Haringey Borough Women’s Football Club have established a local recycling hub for football boots and sports shoes re-used by the local community to allow greater access to sport.

Football boot recycling bin

West Green Playgroup

West Green Playgroup are changing behaviours through co-designed mural art, to be measured by the waste materials collected by the children to reuse.

A woman displaying an artwork

Ferry Lane Primary School

Ferry Lane Primary School has undertaken a feasibility assessment to ascertain the potential carbon savings that can be implemented with capital funding

Cover of energy audit report

Mottainai

Mottainai delivers free workshops to upskill residents on mending, upcycling and creating sustainable fashion (measured by number of garments mended)

Mottainai workshop flyer

Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust

Alexandra Park and Palace is:

  • installing a photovoltaic (PV) array onto the roof of the Sports Pavilion
  • replacing legacy lighting units on the palace terrace with new transformers, internal wiring and LEDs
A man in a cherry-picker makes a peace sign at the camera while working on a street lamp

Woodshop of Recycled Delights

Woodshop of Recycled Delights delivers reclaimed material carpentry workshops in collaboration with Haringey’s community gardens to tackle timber waste, improve community spaces and behaviour change.

People doing woodwork outdoors

Jacksons Lane

Retrofitting Jacksons Lane’s Theatre lighting stock to LED and offering re-use of replaced stock to small companies

Lighting rigs in a vaulted ceiling

Year 2 – 2023/24

Applications for year 2 closed on 6 January 2023.

7 organisations were successful in getting funding for their projects. The total amount of funding awarded was £85,944. 

The 7 organisations and projects, along with their current status are listed here.

Ten87 Studio

Status: completed.

Ten87 Studio has successfully installed rooftop solar photovoltaic panels to generate around 22,799 kWh per year.

This will result in saving nearly 5 tonnes in carbon emissions annually.

Solar panels on roof at Ten87 studio

Muswell Hill Methodist Church

Status: completed.

Muswell Hill Methodist Church has successfully installed a trial air source heat pump, providing heating to a room used by the local community and organisations.

Muswell Hill Methodist Church viewed from outside with new pump installed

Haringey Go Green team

Status: completed.

The Haringey Go Green team used the microgrant to organise carbon footprinting workshops for small businesses as part of the Great Big Green Week and London Climate Action Week in June 2023.

3 women smiling at Great Big Green Week coffee morning

Cypriot Community Centre

Status: completed.

The Cypriot Community Centre has replaced their existing lighting on the ground and first floors of their building with LED lighting.

Cypriot Community Centre indoors, with LED lights on ceiling

People’s Pantry

Status: completed.

The People’s Pantry has used the microgrant to repair their sewing machine to produce recycled linen and fabric bags for food refills and deliveries

Since then they have ceased trading.

Sewing machine and flower fabric

Projects that are still in progress

Daniel (local resident)

Daniel received the microgrant to organise a community pop-up event for local business owners. Daniel's aim is to promote sustainability and carbon reduction in the events and hospitality industry.

Year 2 video: community groups in Haringey receive funding for carbon cutting projects

Year 1 – 2022/23

In the first year of funding, 6 organisations received funding to reduce carbon and empower the community. The total amount of funding awarded was £73,414.

Contact the climate change team

Email climate@haringey.gov.uk

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