Deadline for submissions: 9am | Monday 15 March 2021

We are looking for 7 Leeds-based partner organisations, grassroots groups or individuals to build on the extensive and exciting climate action already taking place across Leeds. Together this partnership will co-create a model for a community-led Just Transition in Leeds.

The role of each Transition Partner will be to work towards achieving outputs in each of their sectors of expertise – Transport, Energy, Housing, Food, Nature, Economy, Youth & Education – which broadly relate to the overall programme mission of bringing about a ‘socially just, sustainable, zero carbon Leeds by the 2030s’.

Read on to find out the background of this work, what Leeds Tidal means by a ‘Just Transition’, and how to apply.

Briefing Session: 12.30 – 2.00pm | 4 March 2021

We recognise this is a massive project with lots of components, so to make this process more accessible we will be holding a briefing meeting on Thursday 4th of March from 12.30 – 2.00pm – all welcome.

Please fill in this form to let us know if you’ll be attending the Briefing Meeting, and we will send you joining details. If this date and time isn’t possible for you, feel free to email us directly or indicate on the form if you’d like to arrange an alternative time to speak.

Background

Over the last 12 months, four partners, supported by 35 other Leeds based groups, developed an ambitious plan for the city, resulting in the Climate Emergency Community Action Programme, a new £2.5 million five-year programme of work in Leeds funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund. This work is being taken forward by a partnership made up of Voluntary Action Leeds, Our Future Leeds (working with Leeds Love It Share It), Together for Peace and Leeds Tidal. 

The long term goal is to create a ‘zero-carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s’. To achieve this, our key programme aim is to respond to the Climate Emergency by supporting Community Action through a Climate Justice framework. We are committed to transformative, city-wide action, ensuring outcomes are socially just, co-produced and organised via flat organisational structures and participatory decision making. Find out more about CECAP here. See Appendix for what Climate Justice means to us. 

The programme has five ‘work packages’ that are working in partnership over the five years of the fund:

Management (Work Package 1): Voluntary Action Leeds will provide organisational and management support to the whole programme.

Movement Building (Work Package 2): Our Future Leeds will lead programme development and strategic direction, working with transition partners to meet the programme’s aims. This will include facilitating city-wide stakeholder dialogue, developing a city-wide Climate Justice Action Plan and a central Climate Action Hub, hosting Climate Assemblies and Roundtables, and providing a programme of training to be used in the community hubs (because Our Future Leeds is an unincorporated organisation, it will be working through Leeds Love It Share It CIC).

Community Hubs (Work Package 3): Together for Peace will develop and coordinate the network of community hubs and associated action plans through in-depth community engagement. The community hubs will work closely with the central city-centre hub.

Sector and Campaign Support (Work Package 4): Leeds Tidal will coordinate and support sector and campaign groups to work in solidarity with community-led climate action towards Climate Justice (more details below).

Evaluation and Learning (Work Package 5): We are in the process of engaging an organisation to coordinate learning, monitoring and evaluation across the whole project.

Work Package 4 Background

Ensuring Climate Justice outcomes in our efforts to tackle the climate emergency is a core part of the CECAP programme. Through a Climate Justice framing, Work Package 4 seeks to explore how to amplify and support community-led climate action towards a ‘Just Transition’ through everyday entry points including Economy, Energy, Food, Housing, Education, Nature and Transport. (See Appendix for what Just Transition means to us).

As Tidal we recognise that as a local movement-building organisation we have a key role to play, but we do not have the required skills, expertise and sector-specific knowledge to do this alone. Therefore, through this work package we seek to work in partnership with seven Leeds-based partner organisations, grassroots groups or individuals to build on the extensive and exciting climate action already taking place across Leeds. 

Working together as a partnership, we intend to co-create a model for a community-led Just Transition in Leeds, working in solidarity with those most affected by the effects of climate breakdown, both at home and abroad. 

Role Purpose

The overall objective of each of the 7 Transition Organisers is to build solidarity between campaign groups and community-led networks to ensure transformative climate action. Building a network, shared vision and actions, Transition Partners will support transformative city level change by feeding into the programme’s City Plan, City Hub and Roundtable. 

Roles will involve a range of tasks and skills including but not limited to: co-creating training, workshops, supporting actions, start-ups, creating resources, hosting thematic network meetings, Assemblies, Roundtables, facilitating democratic decision making processes and co-producing thematic Action Plans to feed into the City Plan.

Budget and timeline

There is a total budget of £47,867 across the five years of the programme allocated for each Transition Partner, as set out below. 

• Year 1 (2020/21)  – £7,661 (roughly 5 months)
• Year 2 (2021/22) – £10,381 (12 months)
• Year 3 (2022/23) – £10,588 (12 months)
• Year 4 (2023/24) – £10,800 (12 months)
• Year 5 (2024/5) – £8,437 (9 months)

Total – £47,867

Application and selection process

Please see this document for the full Tender Pack & Specification.

Applicants are asked to submit a proposal and budget by 9am on the 15th of March. A shortlist of finalists will be selected for informal virtual interviews by a Panel made up of partners prior to a decision being made.

Proposal & Budget Template

Please fill in and return this proposal template & budget template to maia.kelly@leedstidal.org by 9am on the 15th of March.

If you are interested in more than one position please submit a separate proposal and budget for each position.

Equitable Recruitment

Leeds Tidal strives to apply best practice accessibility and equal opportunities principles both in our recruitment and in our work. We oppose all forms of unlawful or lawful discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexuality, marital status, religion, age or disability. 

We greatly encourage – and hope to receive – applications from individuals, grassroots groups or organisations with perspectives informed by lived experience (whether relating to race, gender, disability, class or other identities). The successful bidder will be selected purely on the basis of how well they fit the specification, as judged by their application materials and their interview performance. Where two or more applicants are judged to be of equal merit, priority may be given to an applicant less well represented in our partnership.

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