€1.9m awarded to 51 community groups in Dublin City

Dublin City Council is delighted to announce that over €1.9m has been awarded to 51 community groups under the Government's Climate Action Fund. The funding will benefit sports clubs, resident associations, community centres, community gardens, religious institutions, and others. The Community Climate Action Programme offered Dublin City community groups the chance to secure funding to take local climate actions, which reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote active travel, improve resource efficiency, and protect nature. These funds also sought to reduce future impacts of climate change and strengthen community cohesion.

The programme will see dozens of community energy projects implementing lighting and heating upgrades, installing solar panels and improving building insulation, all of which will reduce Ireland's reliance on fossil fuels and save community groups money, which can be reinvested in other essential services. The programme also supported several Active Travel initiatives, by providing safe and secure bicycle parking and bicycle repair resources, enabling more Dubliners to move around the city in a cleaner and greener way.

Rainwater harvesting will get a boost by capturing rainwater during high rainfall events, thereby helping prevent flooding and which can be used during dry spells. More repair cafes and clothes swap shops will help slow fast fashion and save money whilst our city will be more nature friendly thanks to new wildflower gardens.There will be more food growing in community gardens and at home thanks to the Kingfisher Pixel 2.0 Dispersed Community Gardens, where up to 100 residents will be able to avail of resources and support to enable them to grow their own food and share/exchange excess crops.

Dublin City Council is excited to be supporting these communities as they transition towards sustainability and look forward to sharing their stories over the coming months. In addition to the 51 Dublin groups, St. James Community Garden, Belfast will also benefit from this fund through their partnership with City Farm, Ballymun.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, James Geoghegan said "I am delighted to see so many Dublin communities undertaking climate actions which will see them become more sustainable and help achieve Irelands national climate action and energy targets and which will benefit all Dubliners"

Chief Executive of Dublin City Council Richard Shakespeare said, "These climate actions, which have been designed and will be delivered by our community groups help strengthen our commitment to a Climate Neutral Dublin by 2030 and demonstrate how we can all play a part in tackling climate change. I would like to thank each of these groups for acting on their desire to take climate action."

Dean Eaton, Community Climate Action Officer Said "Dublin City Council in partnership with the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications is delighted to be able to support Dublin communities as they come together to take climate actions for the benefit of the whole community."

The full list of the awarded categories is available to view at governments-climate-action-fund-2024.pdf (dublincity.ie)

***Attached please find photo of The Lord Mayor of Dublin, James Geoghegan and Lorraine Barry, Manager of Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre *** Photo by Collins Photo Agency.

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