Funding Fairer Futures

Funding Fairer Futures: Our 2025 Call for Proposals 

Funding Fairer Futures is a new initiative dedicated to strengthening the climate movement and supporting its transformation to become truly inclusive by ensuring that the needs and perspectives of diverse stakeholders, including often marginalised communities, are heard and reflected in climate action. We’ve built a coalition with Climate Action Network, WECF, Christian Blind Mission Ireland and ECOLISE to empower more organisations and individuals to build community power, organise and hold power holders to account through providing financial support and training.

As part of the project, we launched the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund—the biggest fund and organisational development space in Europe so far for youth organisations and informal groups to work on inclusive climate justice. Our focus is on engaging actors from outside the obvious spaces and building bridges between climate justice and other priority issues for youth.

What we support

As part of the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund, we provide grants ranging from €1,000 and €100,000 to support projects that strengthen the climate movement.

To find out what kind of activities we support, check out the Call for Proposals for Youth organisations.

Key focus

We have the funding to support both established youth organisations and informal groups located in the 27 EU member states . Our main priorities are; 

• Strengthening the youth climate movement.  We want to use the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund to bring much needed financial, training and networking support to the youth climate movement. 
• To engage and reach new audiences. The climate movement has a diversity problem and we want to use the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund to redress that imbalance. We’re interested in supporting individuals not traditionally engaged in the climate movement. You don’t have to be an environmental or climate organisation! We want to hear from organisations who are new to the topic as well.
• To create a legacy. We want to hear about how our investment in you will contribute to your future growth and impact on the climate movement in the future.
• For you to join our community. Being part of Funding Fairer Futures is more than just receiving financial support and training– our strength comes from working together.

We want to support projects that will amplify the Funding Fairer Futures campaign. Alongside our coalition partners we want to work towards a common goal. We’re interested in hearing from you how your project will contribute to the efforts for a just transition. You can find out more about our campaigning below.

Applications For This Round Are Now Closed

The call for proposals for this round of the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund closed on 7 March 2025. We appreciate the incredible response and thank you to everyone who applied.

Missed this round? Don’t worry! The Youth Climate Changemakers Fund will reopen later this year.

Our partner organisations also launched similar opportunities at the same time as the Youth Climate Changemakers Fund, and will be available again later this year. If you don’t think this fund will be quite right, then make sure to take a look at the:

• Climate Action Engagement Fund
• Feminist Climate Action Fund
• Global Connections for Climate Justice Fund
• Regenerative Climate Fund

Any questions? 

You will find many answers to your questions in our FAQ.

Do not hesitate to contact us at fundingfairerfutures@gceurope.org and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Campaigning on Just Transition

We were also looking for partners from diverse fields and backgrounds, including those not traditionally focused on climate issues, to  actively shape and engage in a joint campaign for a Just Transition. How do we understand Just Transition? A systemic shift towards an equitable, sustainable and inclusive society that tackles the root causes of social and environmental injustices within economic, political, and social structures.