Green Recovery Fund

We have created a £60m Green Recovery Fund to help us meet our climate and ecology ambitions as set out in the Climate & Ecological Strategy & Action Plan.

As a combined authority, we have invested £36m of our own funding into the Green Recovery Fund and will seek to match this with additional funding streams to reach a total fund of £60m.

The objectives of the fund are to:

• Reduce the region’s emissions from buildings and transport, and enhance our natural habitats;
• Raise employment in businesses providing solutions to climate transition;
• Develop viable and sustainable markets for net zero transition, by overcoming obstacles or developing innovative solutions;
• Support the region’s economy to decarbonise, including increasing green skills provision; and
• Leverage external funding into the region to tackle climate and ecological emergencies.

Applications for the Green Recovery Fund are current closed.

The first round of the Green Recovery Fund aimed to allocate an indicative total of up to:

• £4m for nature recovery
• £3m for renewable energy & energy capacity

The first round of Green recovery fund focused on two of the five themes outlined within the Climate & Ecological Strategy & Action Plan: nature recovery and renewable energy.

Organisations eligible to apply include:

• Unitary authorities
• Community groups,
• Not-for-profit organisations
• Charities
• Social enterprises
• Universities and educational institutions

All projects must fall within the Combined Authority area (Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, and South Gloucestershire) to be eligible. Businesses and commercial entities are not able to apply in this funding round, though the eligible organisations above are able to apply in partnership with commercial businesses.