Get Climate Ready

Aim

We want to raise £25,000 to support 10 communities to prepare for the impacts of climate change.

Let's Get Climate Ready Together

Climate change is already affecting all of us, from devastating floods to extreme heat. With hotter, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters ahead, we need to prepare now.

Community organisations, often run by volunteers, provide lifeline services for their people and places, from foodbanks to social hubs. When the worst happens, they’re at the centre of the emergency response.

They know their communities best, so they’re best placed to say what they need to prepare. Top-down, one-size-fits-all approaches don’t work. Preparing for a changing climate has to be rooted in lived experience if everyone is to thrive, not just survive.

Verture's role

We’re Verture, the UK’s only climate resilience charity.

Climate resilience is the ability to withstand and recover from the impacts of a changing climate. Adaptation, which means changing how we live, work and plan in response, is central to it.

What we’ll do

We’re raising £25,000 to work with 10 trailblazing community organisations to co-design a climate resilience programme that delivers what communities actually need. The first four are in Wishaw (North Lanarkshire), Sanday (Orkney), Easterhouse (Glasgow) and Montrose (Angus).

Each organisation will get:

• an assessment of how climate risks could affect its people, premises, services and operations
• practical workshops on climate resilience and preparedness
• tailored one-to-one support from Verture
• help to develop a realistic climate resilience plan with practical actions
• routes to funding
• peer learning with other community organisations facing similar challenges

For every extra £250 we raise, we can pay it forward by training another community organisation, using what our trailblazers help us design.

Why now

The most marginalised people in society are the most likely to rely on community organisations, and climate impacts deepen poverty and isolation. Emergency responses are vital, but they only deal with the here and now, which leaves communities exposed in the long term. We need to act before the next crisis hits.

Please help us change this and support communities to Get Climate Ready.

If we raise more or less than our £25,000 target, or can’t deliver the programme exactly as planned, donations will be used where they can have the greatest impact across Verture’s wider charitable work: helping people and places prepare, adapt and build a fairer, more climate-resilient future through our Just Resilience mission.

Photo credit: Ashleigh Shula

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 10th December 2026 at 5:00pm