AVA Annual Report 2022

JUST TRANSITION PARTICIPATORY
BUDGETING FUND
The Grampian Third Sector Interfaces (AVA, ACVO
and tsiMORAY) were approached by the Scottish
Government and asked if we could administer funds that
would support communities to get involved in Just Transition
activities. AVA had £333,333 of capital funding to distribute
to community groups across Aberdeenshire through a
participatory budgeting process.
AVA set up the application process, the applications quality
assurance process, and the voting process in a short space
of time, and supported ACVO and tsiMORAY to set up
similar systems that would enable wider and more joined up
reporting of the outcomes of the fund. NESCAN Hub worked
in partnership with ACVO and AVA to help promote the fund
across its members, with the fund opening on 30th September
2022 and closing to applications on 14th November.
56 applications were received, with 46 being deemed
eligible to reach the public vote. The public vote went live
on 1st December for 3 weeks and resulted in 4,762 people
taking part in the Aberdeenshire vote. 19 projects were
funded and the successful projects included purchase
of electric vehicles, household heat loss monitoring and
insulation advice, food growing advisory services, solar
powered equipment to replace petrol machinery, and
retrofitting of community-access facilities.
Between the 19 successful projects, they supported every
one of the 8 national Just Transition outcomes, and each of
the six Aberdeenshire localities will benefit from a range of
activities that are supported by the fund.
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