A ground-breaking project will support mental wellbeing and empower climate action.
Thanks to National Lottery players, Live Here Love Here’s ‘Climate Minds NI’ project has received £1,462,419.00 over three years from the National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the United Kingdom. The initiative has been designed to strengthen the link between mental wellbeing and climate action.
The project will be delivered in partnership by Live Here, Love Here, acting as lead partner, and Inspire Wellbeing. Climate Minds NI will support people and communities, including individuals experiencing mental ill health, intellectual disabilities and addiction by connecting them with climate action staff and volunteers.
The project will establish 16 climate action groups across Northern Ireland. Through these groups, excluded communities will be empowered to codesign climate solutions, strengthen their mental wellbeing, and advance climate justice for underrepresented groups.
The project represents an ambitious initiative that has the potential to create lasting climate positive activities beyond the life of the project and significantly improve participants’ mental wellbeing.
This comes from the Climate Action Fund, a long-term commitment to support communities across the UK to act on climate change and involve more people in positive environmental action.