Just Transition Fund

Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund (Moray)

This application form must be completed in full and all required attachments submitted for the application to be considered.
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Funding for Just Transition Participatory Budgeting:
Introduction:

This form should be completed by groups and organisations applying for grant funding from the Scottish Government’s Just Transition Fund 2025/26 through the Participatory Budgeting (PB) process managed by tsiMORAY and Money for Moray.

The PB Fund is part of a £500 million Just Transitions Capital Fund, to be distributed over a period of ten years, to support Scotland’s north-east economy in its just transition to ‘net zero’ – i.e. to an economy that does not rely on climate-changing, carbon-rich fossil fuels like oil and gas.

In this fourth year of the fund, £1 million will be allocated through a participatory budgeting (PB) process. In Moray £333,333 will be available to community groups to deliver capital projects working towards a just transition to net zero.

This year in Moray, £33,333 will be made available exclusively to young people who will run their own Just Transition PB with support from Money for Moray and tsiMORAY.

The remaining £300,000 will be made available to community groups. This will be divided into: the first

£150,000 open to all, and the remaining £150,000 prioritising groups without paid development staff. This split for this year is in response to feedback and evaluation from previous years, which identified a need to channel more support to smaller groups while still supporting larger groups with just transition projects.

Groups can apply for up to £50,000 for their just transition project. These projects will then be put to the public to vote, where voters will decide which projects they believe will offer the greatest contribution towards a just transition to a carbon neutral Moray.

Please have the GUIDANCE to hand so that you can refer back to it as you complete your application.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 29 September 2025
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Project Contacts
Main Contact
Main contact full name: *
Main contact role in your organisation:*
Main contact address:*
Main contact postcode:*
Main contact phone number: *
Main contact email address: *
Second Contact
Second contact full name:
Second contact role in your organisation:
Second contact address:
Second contact postcode:
Second contact phone number:
Second contact email address:

Bank Details
For unconstitued groups, a partnership agreement will need to be in place with a constituted group willing to hold funds on your behalf. Please make arrangements to put this in place before proceeding with your application.
Name of Bank or Building Society *
Organisation: Bank account name (exactly as shown on the bank statement) *
Organisation: Bank account sort code (six numbers long in the format shown)*
eg. 12-34-56
Organisation: Bank account number (normally eight numbers long)*
e.g. 12345678

About Your Project Proposal
Project Name*
Please describe your project (maximum 200 words)*

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Please describe what change or difference this will make (maximum 200 words)*

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Please describe who would benefit and how? (maximum 200 words)*

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How will you know your project is making a change or difference? (maximum 200 words)*

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If Applicable: Please describe how the items to be purchased will be managed & maintained. If there is an upkeep cost associated with the items, where will the funds be sourced from?*

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If Applicable: If your organisation is no longer able to manage the items that are to be purchased, what will happen to them?*

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Please provide a summary of your project (min 30 words, max 50 words). This summary will be used for the voting form and to promote your project (we may contact you if we need to make any edits)*

0/50

Project Timeline

Please provide a project timeline, including start and end date below. Please note that all funding must be spent by 31 March 2026.
Start Date*

DayMonthYear
Date
End Date*

DayMonthYear
Date
Do you need any permissions or consents to deliver your project?*
NB If yes, please remember you must have these in place before you apply, otherwise your application will not be considered eligible. If you are unsure whether you require these for your project, please check before submitting your application.
Are the necessary permissions and consents in place?*

YesNoNot Applicable
Please note all the necessary permissions need to be in place for your project to be eligible for this fund.

Just Transition Project Outcomes
Which of the relevant Just Transition outcomes will your project address?

Please note your project must address at least one outcome from the Environmental outcomes and at least one from the Social outcomes. Please see the Guidance Notes for a full description of each outcome.
Environmental Outcomes*

Environmental protection and restorationDecarbonisation and efficiencies
Enviromental Outcomes descriptions:

Environmental protection and restoration: commit to act within our planetary boundaries while protecting and restoring our natural environment; 

Decarbonisation and efficiencies: Contribute to resource efficient and sustainable economic approaches that actively encourage decarbonisation, support low-carbon investment and infrastructure, and avoid carbon 'lock-in'
Social Outcomes*

Adaptation and resilienceBusiness and economyCitizens communities and placeFair distribution of costs and benefitsFurther equality and human rights and preventing inequalitiesJobs skills and education
Social Outcomes descriptions:

Adaptation and resilience: Identify key risks from climate change and set out actions to build resilience to these risks, ensuring our economy is flexible, adaptable and responsive to the changing climate

Business and economy: Support a strong, dynamic and productive economy which creates wealth and high quality employment across Scotland, upholds the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and continues to make Scotland a great place to do business

Citizens, communities and place: Support affected regions by empowering and invigorating communities and strengthening local economies

Fair distribution of costs and benefits: Address existing economic and social inequality by sharing the benefits of climate action widely, while ensuring that the costs are distributed on the basis of ability to pay

Further equality and human rights and preventing inequalities: Address fuel poverty and child poverty in a manner consistent with Scotland's statutory targets on each, while furthering wider equality and human rights across all protected characteristics

Jobs, skills and education: equip people with the skills, education and retraining required to support retention and creation of access to green, fair and high-value work
For each of the Just Transition outcomes that you have ticked above, please describe how your project will address them.
Environmental Outcomes
Environmental protection and restoration*
Decarbonisation and efficiencies*
Social Outcomes
Adaptation and resilience*
Business and economy*
Citizens, communities and place*
Further equality and human rights and preventing inequalities*
Fair distribution of costs and benefits*
Jobs, skills and education*

Financial Breakdown of your Project
What is the total cost of the project?*
What is the total amount of grant you are applying for?*
How much is your organisation contributing of its own funds to the overall cost of the project? If the answer is £0, please state this.*
If you have any grants/funding/income from another source that will contribute to this project, please provide details here. This should include the name of the funder, the amount of funding that has been secured or the amount of funding that is to be secured, and the date that funding was or is likely to be secured. If there are none, please type 'Not Applicable'*
Please provide a complete breakdown of the costs for the entire amount that you are applying for. If needed you can also attach this as a separate file at the end of this form. *
What else might you need for your project? This could be access to advice, equipment, transport, volunteers, venues or things that money can't buy.

Declarations

That in submitting your application you confirm that (all tickboxes)

Your Details

Which will act as your signature prior to submitting your application on behalf of your organisation.
Full name: *
Position in organisation: *
The date on which you are submitting your application.*

DayMonthYear
Un-constituted Groups

Un-constituted groups must link in with a constituted group/ organisation willing to act as guarantor for the project. Contact details of a guarantor must be provided to enable us to contact them and confirm their organisation’s willingness to be responsible for the appropriate use of the funds (if you are a constituted group, please ignore this section and submit your application).
Partnership Full name:
Partnership Organisation:
Partnership Phone Number:
Partnership Email:
Supporting Documents
ORGANISATION LOGO or IMAGE FOR VOTING - Please upload an organisation logo or image that you would like to be used for the voting platform.*

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BANK STATEMENT - Please upload a copy of your most recent bank statement here (this should be no more than 3 months old). If you are an unconstituted group, the bank statement must be from the organisation that will hold the funds. *

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GOVERNING DOCUMENT - Please upload a copy of your governing document. If you are an un-constituted group, the consitution or governing document of the organisation that will hold the finds must be uploaded.*

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ANNUAL ACCOUNTS - Please upload a copy of your most recent annual accounts. If you are an un-constituted group, the accounts must be from the organisation that will hold the funds.*

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PERMISSION(s) - If required, please upload a copy of the full and final planning permission relating to this project that has been granted and/or evidence of any other permissions that you have secured. You can upload more than one document here if required.

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COST BREAKDOWN - Please provide additional information for your cost breakdown if required.

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Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund (Moray)

Funding for Just Transition Participatory Budgeting:

About You and Your Organisation

Project Contacts

Bank Details

About Your Project Proposal

Project Timeline

Just Transition Project Outcomes

For each of the Just Transition outcomes that you have ticked above, please describe how your project will address them.

Financial Breakdown of your Project

Declarations

Your Details

Un-constituted Groups

Supporting Documents