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Green MSP congratulates Shettleston growers

Glasgow Regional MSP Patrick Harvie today congratulated an East End project on its successful bid for funding from the Climate Challenge Fund. Shettleston Community Growing Project will receive nearly £172,800 for a resident-led initiative to grow food locally and raise awareness of food miles, food waste, recycling and energy consumption. This funding is part of the latest round of Climate Challenge Fund money to be awarded, and £5.5m was awarded today to communities across Scotland.

The Climate Challenge Fund is a joint project between the Greens and Scottish Ministers, and will distribute £27.4m in funding up to 2011. The Fund was established through the 2008 budget, and is designed to support innovative and locally-led projects to cut carbon emissions and build sustainable communities. (1)

Shettleston Comnnuity Growing Project's planned activities will give local people will have the opportunity to get their hands dirty growing their own food. The project will also save an estimated 1,286 tonnes of carbon, and help people learn about how the choices they make around food, recycling and energy can make a big difference in the global effort to tackle climate change.

Patrick Harvie MSP said:

"The Climate Challenge Fund is a chance for communities to innovate and lead, and to find opportunities instead of problems. Shettleston Community Growing Project is a fantastic response to this challenge. I'd like to congratulate everyone who worked hard on the plans and the succesful funding application, and their hard work has certainly borne fruit today. I hope many Shettleston residents will take the opportunity to get involved with this excellent project.

"The Climate Challenge Fund has been one of the great successes of this session, and we have been delighted to have been able to persuade Scottish Ministers to fund community ideas of this sort. The map of Scotland is covered with 232 extraordinary and diverse projects it has funded, and more than £27m has been invested. This money has laid the groundwork for sustainable jobs across the country, for greener and more fulfilling ways of living, and for the low carbon communities of the future."

Notes

1. The Green MSPs secured this funding as part of Budget negotiations with Scottish Ministers in 2008. The £27.4 Climate Challenge Fund is designed to support innovative and locally-led projects to cut carbon emissions and build sustainable communities. For more information, see http://www.climatechallengefund.org

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