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Climate in the Community

Read about the ways you can get involved and help fight climate change, from supporting biodiversity to joining a local group.

Get involved in a local group

Find a local community group in your area and help in fight against climate change.

Got an idea? Get funding

Here you can find the most recent grants to help enhance your community

Upcoming Events

Information about upcoming events that support our climate emergency declaration.

Green Schools Forum

Swale Green Schools welcome parents, guardians and governors and provides training and support to help reduce your carbon footprint.

Green Grid Community Forum

Green Grid helps support local communities through environmental projects aimed at green spaces.

What We're Doing

Read about the things we're doing to help fight climate change, including the objectives of our climate and ecological emergency declaration.

Our Declaration

Information about our climate emergency declaration on 26 June, 2019.

Our progress

Information about the progress we're making towards a climate emergency declaration.

Planning

Information about planning policies that help support the aims of our climate emergency declaration.

Air quality

Information about the improvements we're helping to make to air quality across Swale.

Swale Cycle Recycle

Promoting sustainability by recycling old bikes to encourage active travel, a healthier lifestyle and a cleaner, greener environment.

What You Can Do

Advice on the things you can do yourself to help in the fight against climate change.

Businesses

The climate crisis is escalating, but your business can all make a difference.

Transport

Tips on how to minimise your impact on the environment whilst travelling

Ecology and Biodiversity

Encouraging biodiversity in your gardens

Waste and Recycling

Find out what you can do to help reduce your affect on climate change by helping to manage your household waste.

Energy, Fuel and Water

Find out what you can do to limit your home's emissions, and how Swale can support you.

Food

There are lots of everyday ways that you can help to reduce the impact of climate change, including shopping locally.

Ways to get in touch with our Climate and Ecological Emergency Project Officer.

Funding Opportunities

Read about the Low Carbon Across the South and East (LoCASE) programme which aims to help businesses become more competitive and profitable while protecting the environment and encouraging low carbon solutions.

The Workplace Charging Scheme

The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is a voucher-based scheme that provides eligible applicants with support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints. Installing chargepoints is a great start towards electrify your fleet or encouraging staff to switch to EVs for commuting, all of which help reduce emissions and contribute towards Clean Air in Swale.

The WCS is open to businesses, charities and public sector organisations that meet the applicant and site eligibility criteria.

The grant covers up to 75% of the total costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints (inclusive of VAT), capped at a maximum of:

£350 per socket

40 sockets across all sites per applicant – for instance, if you would like to install them in 40 sites, you will have 1 socket available per site

EV Chargepoint Grant

The EV chargepoint grant provides funding of up to 75% towards the cost of installing electric vehicle smart chargepoints at domestic properties across the UK. It replaced the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme ( EVHS ) on 1 April 2022. This grant is available to landlords, social housing providers and or property factor.

You can also apply for funding to install electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint infrastructure in parking reserved for staff or a company fleet as a small or medium sized company. This grant can be used in conjunction with the Workplace Charging Scheme, which helps fund the installation of chargepoints, but not the cost of chargepoint infrastructure.