Climate Engagement Fund

Assessing your application

Funding criteria

Applications will be assessed against the aim of the Climate Engagement Fund (CEF):

1. Engage your audience: 

Show how you are using innovative modes, or a variety of modes, to reach and engage your audiences on climate change. We are interested in how to engage audiences in a manner that is most suited to them and demonstrates how climate action relates to their lives.  

This aim is included in the assessment criteria and in the application form.

In addition to contributing to the aim, all grants will be offered on the condition that they:

• meet due diligence requirements
• meet agreed project targets/milestones
• complete financial claims (a template will be provided)
• complete monitoring and final project reports (templates will be provided)
• display robust risk management (identification, mitigation, recovery)

Assessment criteria

Projects will be assessed against their ability to meet the aim of CEF and the assessment criteria.

Projects which do not clearly meet the wider aims of the fund are unlikely to progress.

Each bid will be initially sifted to ensure it meets the essential eligibility. All eligible applications will then be scored by a panel of Scottish Government officials, using a consistent scoring framework. Quality assurance will be undertaken across all bids to ensure a fair scoring is undertaken.

A Scottish Government panel will score each question of the application form, parts B, C and D with questions given equal weighting.