That the Parliament welcomes the £145,000 from Fife Communities Climate Action Network’s (FCCAN’s) 2026 Community Climate Grants Programme to support community-led climate action projects; understands that the FCCAN SOUP participatory event, is planned to take place on 12 August 2026 at 6.00 pm at Betty Nicols, Kirkcaldy, where part of funding for these grants will be decided; notes that there are three levels of support available to communities that are members of FCCAN, and that applications opened on 20 July; understands that this will be delivered through Fife Climate Hub and in partnership with Climate Action Fife; celebrates that the 2026 programme has been enhanced with £125,000 from Fife Council's Climate Adaptation Fund; believes that the Community Climate Grants programme is designed to help groups start new projects, develop existing ideas, build organisational capacity and create lasting climate impact in their communities, and is encouraged that, if a Fife-based community group has an idea to tackle climate change or is looking to implement an ambitious project scale, the fund is available to support such ambitions.
Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Colin Beattie (Registered interest)
, Stuart McMillan, Paul Sweeney