Climate Action Projects

The Applecross e-bike project aims to promote active travel with more cycling within its local community. It has done this by increasing the access to bikes within the community. They also offer bike maintenance training as well as other activities to promote cycling as an alternative to taking the car. They also have a supply of e-bikes that local residents can hire on a monthly basis.

Applecross is a grid-constrained, rural community with only single-phase power available. This energy barrier directly impacts the community; hindering business development, limiting locally generated energy exports, and restricting our Electric Vehicle (EV) charging capabilities.

The Appleseed Community Garden and allotment project is aimed at sustainability objects which focus on reducing food production miles and improving local food production as well as other criteria's such as health and wellbeing.

Working together to make our communities of Ardersier, Croy & Tornagrain stronger.

The Arisaig Eco Project (part of Arisaig Community Trust) is a small, community-based environmental project, and we bring people together in lots of ways, raising awareness of climate change ... growing food, re-using, swapping, sharing, reducing waste, enjoying nature, walking and cycling.

If you can carry it, our volunteers can try to fix it! One Sunday a month, 2-5, Boat of Garten Hall.

A project to recreate Shetland's once common scrub woodland, Bressay Development Ltd will be planting a total of 3000 trees, all of which are historically native to Shetland.

A community resource that helps reduce food waste by sharing surplus of fresh food using the fridge.

Helping to reduce waste and located in Inverness, The community cupboard is open from 8 am - 8 pm daily to help support the community. 

Fearn Free Food Garden is a community project with volunteers who grow fresh food for the local community to use free of charge. They also educate people on the growth of produce and hope to expand their workshops further.

The Westray Community Garden project produces organic fresh fruit and vegetables here on Westray for the local community. This was made possible through funding from LEADER. Initially launched as a two-year pilot study in 2017 under the name of ‘Food Miles to Food Smiles’, the garden project has gone from strength to strength and is now into its fifth growing season.

 The Walled Garden was built at the same time using lime mortar and the local Lewisian Gneiss, giving it its grey and blue colour. It holds fruit bushes and trees. 

Bressay Development Ltd run the Good as New shop where they sell 2nd hand items, thus contributing towards a circular economy and a reduction of waste.

Supporting goodness in the communities - inspired by scripture to act on social injustice and inequality 

From weeding, lawnmowing, litter picking and tree maintenance - we meet up once a month to look after the Nairn Community Orchard in the Viewfield.

Greener Orkney's Community fridge distributes excess food from supermarkets with the aim of reducing food waste whilst also reducing food insecurity.

Offer guidance, support, advice, and education on local growing for individuals, community groups and schools.

The Helmsdale Community Larder is available for community members as a source of food supplies. Based beside the Helmsdale Community Centre it is open 3 days a week for access. 

Helmsdale Kitchen Garden (HKG) is a project designed to incorporate the production of fruit, vegetable, herb and fungi whilst increasing the biodiversity and habitat space for local wildlife. We also aim to provide an opportunity for people to learn.

Helmsdale and District Community development trust have 4 bikes and an e-cargo bike this is available free of charge to local residence to use, or to visitors of the area at a charge. 

The idea behind Incredible Edible Stromness is to encourage local food growing and to turn public areas or unused/derelict plots of land into places for community good growing.

The Knoydart Climate Conversations Working Group (KCCWG), comprising mostly volunteers, aims to set up and facilitate a series of conversations to help the Knoydart community formulate a shared response and action to the global climate crisis.

The Community Bothy aims to reduce waste by distributing a surplus of frozen and packaged foods. The community bothy is open to anyone who can make use of it; opening times can be found on the website linked below.