Funding opportunities
Join the NHS Forest and plant trees to save lives
Last year, the NHS Forest helped over 140 NHS sites to plant thousands of trees to improve people’s health and boost biodiversity. This year, the NHS Forest, led by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, is once again offering fully funded trees and expert tree-planting advice to NHS sites. The 2024-2025 tree-planting season starts this autumn, but expressing your interest early is recommended. This may be the last year this offer is available to NHS sites in its current form.
Apply for the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES)
The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme delivers. Performance improvements to existing plant and infrastructure to enable efficient decarbonisation. Under this scheme both revenue and capital funding are available.
Transitioning to centralised energy purchasing to find efficiencies for the NHS
There are currently 200 energy contracts in place across trusts in England, under different agreements, with varying value and purchasing strategies. Given this, NHS England has agreed, in partnership with Crown Commercial Service (CCS), to develop an NHS specific energy agreement under the CCS framework – Supply of Energy 2.
NHS England has worked with CCS to shape an energy product specifically for the NHS. The NHS basket will shape our energy buying strategy. This NHS unique basket contains four key service offers:
- A long-term, risk-based buying strategy which will allow the NHS to work as one to harness the greatest value, energy security and green energy
- Additional energy management support for every ICS
- A comprehensive bill validation service aimed at ensuring the NHS has been historically charged the correct amount for energy
- A full energy bureau service aimed at freeing up time for local energy managers to focus on efficiency projects, by validating and processing energy bills.