Microgrants
Dundee Changemakers' Hub provides microgrant funding each year to individuals and community groups with inspiring ideas and projects that can positively impact climate awareness and action, and social justice, for the people of Dundee.
Below you'll find a complete list of all the projects who have received microgrant funding from us. If these inspire you and want to take action, you can read more about the application process here:
Past Microgrant Recipients
2025/26 - 28 projects sharing £33,000
Green Roots Stobswell: Community/D&A College partnership for Climate Resilience to combat social isolation and lack of accessible green space in a disadvantaged area, whilst building practical climate resilience from the ground up
Digital Change for Climate Justice: Helping people understand, question, and reshape the digital world around them. This project empowers local people to become ‘digital changemakers’
Dundee Critical Mass: Establishing a monthly event to promote safe cycling in the city and celebrate different ways that active travel intersects with culture, climate action and transport poverty
Collaborative Ecosystems Tabletop Game: Development by a game designer and artist using material components and lots of creativity to allow exploring ecosystems and the complexities and balance that exist in natural habitats
The Green Blueprint: Toolkit for participatory, climate-responsive design, adaptable for communities seeking to reimagine their spaces, reaching those who might normally be excluded from spatial planning processes
Ishka Plant Connection Circles: Series of plant circle events in partnership with a herbalist to explore a different local plant/herb, introducing its folklore, history, medicinal uses, and ecological role
Campy Growers Forest Garden Incubator: New forest garden to begin a nursery that will provide edible plants to the Dundee community within a few years
Fairmuir Community Garden Water Collection: Establishing a rainwater capture system to reduce reliance on mains water during dry periods; and supporting community lunches within the garden
POD! Community Gallery: New public micro-venue for local art showcasing community work specifically around climate change and social impact
Stobswell Community Garden: Composting & Growing for Climate & Community: Development of a composting area and system, and opportunities for residents to take part in garden activities and learning
Green Hub Collective: Research and feasibility into establishing a Dundee city centre green hub providing garden infrastructure to groups and volunteers, and create a social space for connection and collaboration
Roots of Belonging: Community Oak Planting & Wellbeing Day: Community Clan group for displaced male asylum seekers and refugees, planting 100 oak saplings alongside wellbeing facilitation
Wee Green Space: Providing a safe, engaging space at Victoria Gardens for children to play, stay active, and enjoy the outdoors, instilling the value and benefit of dedicated green spaces for community life
Victoria Gardens Water Security: Building resilience and self-sufficiency with placing water butt and irrigation system, iIncorporating organic composting elements, such as nettles, to naturally fertilise plants
Blackness Gardening Club: Creation of a green, biodiverse space for children to learn about local plants, pollinators and the stories connected to our environment - a place for wellbeing, curiosity and climate learning.
Biome Climate Justice Game Jam: An accessible game jam event bringing the public together to create digital and physical games that respond to themes around climate justice
Forest Gardens Playful Toolkit: Development of a game-style toolkit to support communities and individuals to plan and grow Forest Gardens with permaculture principles in Dundee’s growing spaces
Dryburgh 4 Change: Feasibility study for transforming local land into an inclusive, multi‑use community space, exploring diverse options to ensure the site is welcoming and sustainable
Recycling & Making Lochee: Providing fun, free and accessible sewing and upcycling workshops for local primary schools and community hubs, encouraging repair and reuse, reducing textile waste and building sustainable habits
Really Really Free Market: Facilitating an inclusive public space to connect, converse, share, and play; share unwanted items with others, promote community projects and resources,normalising reuse and regifting of goods
Room To Be Community Area: Co-create an urban art seating and planting area at Boomerang community garden for rest and community connection, with art inspired by nature and climate
Tending Gardens Grow Something New: Workshops for young people aged 16-24 to develop gardening skills and play an active, autonomous role in outdoor planting in the city centre
Dundee Therapy Gardens: Communal meals for the veteran community, providing an opportunity to connect with each other and the outdoors
ADHD Youth Sessions: Expand youth sessions for young people with ADHD in Stobswell, using sustainable creative materials, sensory equipment and sports gear
Re/Shape: Support local artists and volunteers to deliver inclusive sessions using reused and recycled materials
Shouty Knot Games: ‘Queen to Bee’ game for young people framed around how a beehive functions, encountering environmental hurdles and considering decisions to keep the hive safe and secure, building understanding of the peculiar ways of bees and their importance
Campy Growers Youth Initiative: Student-led workshops to explore using sustainable materials and eco-friendly drawing skills to create a mural to highlight the people and their environmentally conscious actions that take place at Campy Growers
Chat & Create: Youth-facilitated repair and recycling workshops, clothing swaps and textile collection days, open repair sessions and peer-learning events reducing textile waste and normalising circular, low-carbon fashion practices to build youth leadership, confidence, and climate agency
2024/25 - 23 projects sharing £10,300
Cara Rooney: Interactive, outdoor workshop with local children to create an interactive map of Hilltown Park to be developed with Dundee Recovery Network
Red Thread Project: A safe, inclusive space for women to learn how to make reusable menstrual pads while exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of menstrual cycle charting
Let’s Build a Garden: Creation of a garden and creative hub for the LGBTQI+ community in Dundee, connecting with nature, creativity and each other
Campy Collective Design: Co-design session with members to provide them with new skills, and create a new plating area to improve local food production and biodiversity
Youth Sewing Group: Series of sewing workshops with young people to develop skills, learn about reducing, reusing and recycling, and develop understanding of the impacts of fast fashion
Reuse, Rework, Relove, Revive: Teaching members how to repurpose items they already have, aiming to improve mental health, tackle loneliness and support learning
Sawdust Carpet Weekender: Participatory arts project to co-create a colourful carpet that encourages critical conversation around sustainability and climate change
Seeds of Change: Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset within communities, building resilience, developing confidence to turn ideas into sustainable ventures
Hillcrest Futures: Purchase and community planting of heritage apple trees
Haven: Series of cooking classes building skills and confidence for community members, with communal meals and sharing
Toadstool Trail with RSPB: Empowering and encouraging P1 outdoor wellbeing through designing an outdoor toadstool trail, learning about map making, planning, plants, birds and more
Remembering Together Dundee: Designs to support the public consultation for a community co-designed covid memorial garden
Fairmuir Community Garden: Potting supplies to support community engagement in gardening and seed planting event for local people
St Francis Primary School Allotment: Development of garden and allotment area to increase accessibility, access seeds and planting supplies, and build sensory learning facilities
Roundhouse: Providing school, and community food and experiences that build cohesion, develop skills and reduce waste
Lifegate Tea Dance: Reducing energy usage and efficiency with the purchase of a large tea urn to serve 60-70 elderly people each week
Whitfield Greenspace Group: Materials for garden to support group work, working with schools, and family activities to engage local people in the community garden
Library of Things: Addition of resources to publicly-available city centre resource library to reduce single-use buying and normalise hire and reuse
Friends of Dudhope: Community events engagement to encourage visitors and connect communities
Front Lounge: Children’s workshops in the Hilltown area of Dundee
Charlotte Young Art: Workshops for disabled adults to connect with each other and nature, collectively creating a mural
Creative Activism: Workshops exploring how young adults can reimagine protests to include disabled people
Action for Children: Develop outdoor space for children to combat isolation and create a sense of belonging for young people