The Greener Living Fund will help voluntary organisations promote positive environmental changes to individuals and communities, helping them reduce their carbon footprints, make greener lifestyle choices and find new ways to rely less on our natural resources.
Defra’s Third Sector Strategy is part of the Government’s wider commitment to working with voluntary and charitable organisations and demonstrates the department’s commitment to helping these organisations promote environmental sustainability .
The report includes:
- A variety of new opportunities for Defra to work more closely with the third sector with independent advice from a new board, practical good housekeeping actions and a new social enterprise partnership.
- A new task group to look at ways of helping national level third sector programmes promote environmental sustainability. This group will be jointly chaired by ministers from Defra, Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Cabinet office and include third sector stakeholders.
- Promoting a new campaign to encourage environmental volunteering to help biodiversity locally.
