More than 100 projects benefit from Phase 3 Low Carbon Skills Fund

All £14million of the Phase 3 Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund (LCSF) has been allocated. 

The Application Portal, which opened at 2pm on Wednesday 15 June 2022 and closed at 2pm on Thursday 16 June 2022, received more than 700 applications. The allocation of funding, which is done on a first-come-first-served, went to 130 projects.

Phase 3 LCSF provides grants for public sector organisations to get expert advice and skills to create or improve a heat decarbonisation plan setting out the steps and proposed timeline for decarbonising their buildings. Heat decarbonisation plans can help organisations apply for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme and benefit from a range of heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency measures or make a case for securing other available capital funding.

The scheme invited central government departments and their arm’s length bodies, public sector bodies including emergency services, further and higher education institutions, local authorities, maintained schools within the state education system, including academies, multi-academy trusts and free schools and NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts to apply for funding.

Delivered by Salix Finance, the LCSF will support the Government’s net-zero and clean growth goals.

All applicants awarded funding must complete their heat decarbonisation plans before Friday 31 March 2023. 

For further information about the Phase 3 Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund please contact the team at [email protected]