What is the Save the Children Young People Climate Fund?
The link between the climate crisis and children’s lives has never been clearer to see, or more difficult to witness. In countries around the world including the UK, children from the poorest and most disadvantaged communities are being hit hardest. Save the Children is committed to doing all we can to tackle the climate crisis.
Following a successful pilot in 2023, Save the Children UK is launching the 2024 Young People Climate Fund to provide small grants to directly support climate focused activities in London and Leeds. We are also working with The Active Wellbeing Society to deliver a young people focused climate grant project in Birmingham.
The Climate Fund aims to raise awareness of the impacts of the climate crisis, and its effects on children and young people in the UK and around the world. The Climate Fund will also provide opportunities for young people and children to actively participate in the design and organisation of positive climate activities to address the issues that matter most to them.
We’ve collaborated with the Save the Children Climate Advisory Board (a small group of climate-engaged young people aged 12-18) to agree the grant criteria that will be used to select successful applicants and the Climate Advisory Board will be involved in choosing the climate activities that they want us to support via this Climate Fund.
