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Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Opens: 1st July 2024
The Trust supports registered UK charities that work with communities in the UK. The funding is intended to support those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are the most limited.
The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interest being funded each year. There are normally four application rounds per year with applications accepted for one month only, usually in February, April, July and September. Charities can only apply for one round per calendar year.
Round 3 will accept applications during the month of July for projects that focus on the theme of Food Poverty. Priority will be given to projects that focus on enabling resilience and independence, in particular food education and cooking skills.
UK registered charities or organisations that are exempt from registration in the UK with an operating income of between £100,000 and £1 million can apply for grants of £1,000.
National Garden Scheme - Community Gardens Award
Opens: 9th September 2024 | Deadline: 28th October 2024
Delivered by the National Garden Scheme, the Community Gardens Award provides grants of £1,000 and £5,000 for the creation of a garden or a similar project (such as an allotment) with horticultural focus for the benefit of the local community.
The project should aim to bring a community together by creating a space people can share, by the acquisition and sharing of gardening knowledge and skills and by inspiring a love of gardening.
The funding can be used for a number of things, including but not limited to:
- Plants and containers
- Materials for flower or vegetable beds and other hard landscaping
- Greenhouses, polytunnels and sheds
- Seating
- Hand tools and certain garden power tools (e.g. strimmers)
- Materials for providing refreshment.
CharityJob 2024 Annual Charitable Giving Fund
Deadline: 4th October 2024
CharityJob, the UK’s largest charity job board, has opened its annual charitable giving fund for applications.To qualify for a ‘donation’, applicants must:
- Be a UK-based charity (not a CIC) with 50 or fewer employees.
- Have an annual income of less than £1 million.
- Spend less than 25% of their income on fundraising.
- Have less than six months of reserves.
This campaign is open to UK-based registered charities only. Only one application per charity. No previous recipients will be considered.
Although no grant amount has been specified, last year five charities received grants ranging from £10,000 to £20,000. The 2023 recipients can be found on the CharityJob website.
NFU Mutual Charitable Trust
Deadline: 4th October 2024
NFU Mutual Charitable Trust is offering grants for organisations working in agriculture, rural development, and insurance across the UK to deliver projects and activities across one or more of the Trust’s main objectives:
To advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information concerning agriculture.
To advance the education of young people within rural areas.
To relieve poverty within rural areas.
To promote the benefit and social welfare of inhabitants of rural communities by associating together with the inhabitants and local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education and leisure.
To promote research into agricultural-associated activities.
To advance the education of the public using research and dissemination of information concerning insurance.
Priority will be given to larger initiatives that would have a significant impact on rural communities, as well as initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas.
Motability Foundation
Deadline: 8th October 2024
The Motability Foundation is a national charity that has been supporting the travel needs of disabled people across the UK since 1977.
It currently does this through its grant programme which supports disabled people through other charities and organisations who provide transport, help to access it, or research how to make transport accessible.
The Foundation is providing £50 million in funding this year through its six grants programmes:
- Active Travel grants of £400,000 to £4 million for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK.
- Community Transport grants of £100,000 to £4 million for projects which develop, expand and improve community transport options for disabled people in the UK.
- Reducing Barriers to Driving grants of £100,000 to £2 million for projects which improve and expand private transport options for disabled people and their families in the UK.
- Research grants of £50,000 to £1 million to undertake research to help better understand the problems that disabled people face in the transport system and to how they can be solved.
- Travel with Confidence grants of £100,000 to £1.5 million for projects which develop, expand and improve confidence in making journeys and active travel for disabled people.
- Wheelchair Sector Grant Programme grants of £100,000 to £4 million for projects which make immediate impact for disabled people, by improving and expanding their access to good quality wheelchairs in the UK.
Severn Trent’s NeighbourGOOD Scheme
Deadline: 11th October 2024
The application deadline for Severn Trent’s NeighbourGOOD Scheme has been extended to 11th October.
How It Works:
- Community Projects or initiatives can apply for up to £2500 in funding and 20-30 Severn Trent volunteers for 2 days.
- A panel of local experts will shortlist projects.
- Customers will vote for the most impactful projects.
Who Can Apply? Projects that:
- Empower people (e.g., mentoring, skill development)
- Enhance places (e.g., community spaces)
- Promote a healthier environment (e.g., conservation efforts)
For questions, email Severn Trent Community Fund at theneighbourgoodscheme@severntrent.co.uk
Fight for Sight’s Social Change Fund
Deadline: 14th October 2024
Fight for Sight, the operating name of the British Eye Research Foundation, is offering grants of up to £30,000 for projects that support and empower children and young people who are blind and vision impaired with the tools to live independent and fulfilling lives.
The proposed work needs to build social, digital and self-advocacy skills, so that children and young people who are vision impaired feel connected with each other, with their sighted peers, and with the wider communities around them.
There is particular interest in applications from organisations who are collaborating in order to share best practice, deliver at scale or meet previously unmet need.
Applications will be considered from
- UK registered charities
- Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO)
- Charitable companies, limited by guarantee
- Community Interest Companies (CIC), limited by guarantee
- Exempt charities (eg, educational establishments)
Applicants must directly support people who are blind and vision impaired or people at risk of losing sight.
Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Inspire Fund
Deadline: 14th October 2024
Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Inspire Fund has opened for applications. This call is offering seed funding grants of up to £5,000 per project to new applicants from across the UK.
The funding is for projects that meet both of the following core criteria:
- Projects must engage with underserved audiences on the topic of dementia, such as minority ethnic communities, marginalised or socio-economically disadvantaged people.
- Build knowledge and understanding about brain health (in the context of dementia risk reduction) and explore ways to encourage behaviour change.
Projects can use a range of methods to engage with their audience and applicants are encouraged to consider their audience when selecting methods of engagement, to ensure people are able to take part.
Applications will be accepted from people with a range of backgrounds and expertise, such as dementia researchers, community groups, artists, creative organisations, and people responsible for cultural spaces such as museums and libraries. There is particular interest in proposals led by community groups and organisations. Applicants are encouraged to forge links with collaborators or groups to grow the scale of ideas and the impact of projects.
The grants will not support projects providing dementia care or other frontline services (including arts therapy).
An online information webinar will be held on 17 September 2024 (12-1pm) for potential applicants to find out more about the scheme and ask questions. Applicants can sign up to attend on the ARUK website.
BBC Children In Need - Pudsey Next Steps
Deadline: 16th October 2024
This round aims to reach under-served and marginalised children and young people, up to 18 years old. For example, poverty, discrimination, and exclusion, which could include care experienced or disabled children and young people and those from minoritised ethnic communities. Open to UK non profits with income under £100,000 pa. Grants £1,000 – £15,000 pa for up to 3 years. Will fund core costs.
The Linnean Society - Our Local Nature Grants
Deadline: 24th October 2024
Linnean Society is offering grants for community organisations linked with young people to deliver projects and activities that engage young people with local nature and natural spaces and improve their understanding of local biodiversity.
Community groups and other organisations working directly with children and young people aged 16 and under can apply for funding for a variety of activities, such as:
Running a school festival about nature.
Painting community murals showcasing biodiversity in the area.
Building or restoring a community garden.
Creating a nature walk.
Hiring a speaker to come and talk about local foraging.
The maximum award amount is £1,000. However, groups are encouraged to apply for significantly lower amounts.
Grants can be used for materials, room hire, publicity, speakers, trainers, freelancers, project-specific staff costs, audio-visual hire, reasonable volunteer expenses, transport, or other costs of activities/events.
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund
Deadline: 30th October 2024
This round offers grants of up to £80,000 over two years (up £40,000 can be requested per year) for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young women and girls ages 11 and 30 who are on the edge of the criminal justice system.
Registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies that are working within the UK and have a UK office can apply as long as they can clearly show that women and girls make up at least 80% of their total beneficiaries across their whole organisation. They need to have a proven track record of running projects with vulnerable and challenging young women and girls between the ages of 11 and 30 years, and their work is both gender and trauma informed.
There is particular interest in funding projects working with young women and girls who are care experienced, come from Black or minoritized/racialised communities and work that is led by people with lived experience.
The Trust particularly welcomes applications from organisations working in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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The DWF Foundation
The DWF Foundation supports registered charities with an impact in one or more of the following areas:
- Homelessness
- Health and wellbeing
- Employability
- Education
- Environment and Sustainability
The Foundation has been set up to help with initiatives that develop and improve local communities by:
- Tackling a specific community issue.
- Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
- Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded.
- Enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community.
Funding is usually at the discretion of the Foundation but the majority of grants are under £5,000.
COSARAF – Hardship Grants
COSARAF is offering grants of up to £2,000 to organisations that support families and individuals from across the UK who are in financial need and struggling with everyday costs such as basic expenses, utilities, or rent arrears.
Through the Hardship Grants Programme, recognised third-party social organisations, such as charities, housing associations, schools, and social services which are acting on behalf of a family or individual in need, can apply for funding to support vulnerable individuals with costs such as:
- Household items, such as white goods, and occasionally furniture such as sofas or wardrobes.
- Basic living expenses, such as utilities and food.
- Work or education-related expenses.
- Rent or Council tax arrears where there is a clear risk of homelessness.
- Immigration-related costs, where a person’s current immigration status is causing financial hardship.
Priority will be given to:
- The most financially excluded people.
- Families over individuals.
- Those with caring responsibilities.
- Items that will make the most difference to the individual/family’s long-term future.
Most grants are typically around £500. Applications are assessed every six weeks and groups can expect to receive a response within eight weeks of their application.
npower Business Solutions Foundation
Grants are available for not-for-profit and educational institutions within 50 miles of nBS’ offices in Solihull and Leeds to support projects that have a positive impact on local communities, improve places and spaces, and provide opportunities for individuals to reach their potential.
Three levels of funding are available depending on the size and turnover of the applicant organisation:
- Level 1 grants of up to £19,999.
- Level 2 grants of up to £39,999.
- Level 3 grants of up to £100,000.
Woodland Trust - Free Trees for Schools and Communities
Hundreds of thousands of trees are being given away to help the UK reach its 2050 carbon net-zero target. Schools, nurseries, colleges, universities, outdoor learning centres, and other groups such as resident associations, sports clubs, parish councils, scouts and guides from across the UK are among the organisations eligible to apply for up to 420 saplings to improve their local environment. Tree packs include hedging, copse, wild harvest, year-round colour, working wood, wild wood, wildlife, and urban trees. Applications are expected to close in January 2025 or sooner depending on stock availability.
The Toy Trust
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to registered charities to fund equipment and services to support disabled and disadvantaged children under 13 across the UK. The Toy Trust fund helps disadvantaged children and their families to:
- alleviate suffering;
- support children through awful experiences;
- encourage achievement through adversity;
- purchase vital equipment;
- provide care;
- bolster existing initiatives;
- initiate brand new projects;
- satisfy basic needs.
Groups that have carried out some form of effective fundraising by themselves are particularly encouraged to apply. The next deadline to apply is mid-November 2024 for the December meeting of Trustees.
CDS Action Charitable Trust
A community dental service with its head office in Beds, delivering services across the East of England and the Midlands, including in prisons. Donations from the CDS Action Charitable Trust to community organisations who operate in the same communities as CDS to promote health and well-being. So far over £475k has been shared with local organisations supporting causes as varied as canoes for scouts to sign language groups.
Applications are invited from charities, social enterprises and community groups in Norfolk and Waveney (Suffolk), Leicestershire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire with grants ranging in scale from £500 to £5,000. Applications are reviewed every three months by a group of trustees made up of CDS employees.
Severn Trent Community Fund - The NeighbourGOOD Scheme
Severn Trent Community Fund are to launch the NeighbourGOOD Scheme initiative to give communities a helping hand on existing or new schemes/projects, through funding and hands-on volunteering. They are looking to work with local projects that aim to improve the quality of life in our communities. They would love to help with any community-driven project be that enhancing a public space or supporting a local event, from coaching for vulnerable young people to a garden refurb in a care home.
They want to ask customers across the region to apply for up to £2.5k funding and 20-30 Severn Trent volunteers across 2 days to support with the delivery of their projects. The money can be used towards materials for the project and our staff will come to deliver the work.
The idea is that they will be able to deliver 10 projects in total, one in each county of their region. To decide which projects they will deliver we are going to be setting up a panel of judges from each county to shortlist the projects to 3 per county, which will then go to public vote.
They are looking to open applications in the first week of September for a 4–6-week window with the shortlisted projects for each county being announced mid-end October. The public vote will open mid-November with winners being announced before Christmas and all works completed before end March 2025.
Chesterfield Rotary Community Fund
The Chesterfield Rotary Community Awards Fund is open to applications from small community organisations, groups or projects based within, and supporting residents of, the Chesterfield Borough area. It is intended to provide funds which will support projects or activities which would not be possible without this award and which will benefit local people.
The maximum sum which can be awarded for a project or activity is £500.
In the past they have supported:
- A group looking to make improvements to a play area in their local park
- A para ice-hockey player needing support to participate in an international event
- A young man with cerebral palsy needing equipment to participate in wheelchair football
- Some scouts wanting to take part in an international jamboree
Priority will be given to:
- Projects supporting people clearly in need of that support
- Smaller organisations for whom the grant would be of more significance
- Applications for sums smaller than the maximum allowable
Henry Smith Charity - Holiday Grants for Children
The Henry Smith Charity’s Holiday Grants programme supports recreational trips or holidays for groups of children aged 13 or younger who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. There is particular interest in contributing to trips that would not take place without the Charity’s funding.
Applications are currently being accepted for holidays taken between 1 September and 31 December 2024.
Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities in the UK can apply for a one-off grant of between £500 and £2,750 to support a day trip or a longer residential of up to a week for groups of children aged 13 years or younger. The trip could be to a countryside or city location but must be outside of the children’s immediate locality. Day trips should not involve a disproportionate amount of time spent travelling. Consideration will be given to trips which are more local but these should have an emphasis on providing a new experience for the children and broadening their horizons.
Priority will be given to projects level that will benefit disadvantaged and disabled children in the most deprived areas in the UK.
Grants are made on a first come, first served basis until the available funding for that round has been fully allocated. All applications should be received at least six weeks before the date of the trip to allow for administrative processing and decision making.
Stobart Sustainability Fund
Funding is available to UK non-profit organisations, community groups and educational institutions for projects that address climate change, reduce carbon emissions or protect the environment.
Rugby-based Stobart, part of the Culina Group, has launched its new Stobart Sustainability Fund to support not-for-profit organisations, community groups, schools and colleges involved in sustainability initiatives.
Funding will be provided to projects which tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions, or protect and enhance the environment.
Organisations are invited to set out their level of funding requirement in their application.
Protective Security for Mosques Funding Scheme
The scheme is part of the Government's Hate Crime Action Plan. The scheme is intended to reduce the risk and impact of hate crime at places of worship and associated faith community centres. Funding is available for protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack. Applicants should apply if they:
- Have experienced hate crime at their place of worship, or
- Feel their place of worship is vulnerable to hate crime; for example, if hate crime has happened at other places of worship or sites in their community, or if people attending their place of worship have experienced hate crime in the local area.
Applicants do not need to choose what they would like to apply for in advance. If successful, a survey will be carried out at the place of worship. During this survey, the most appropriate measures for the site will be discussed.
Community Ownership Fund
The Community Ownership Fund is now open for those who have submitted an expression of interest. The Community Ownership Fund helps community groups buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community.
Voluntary and community organisations from across the UK can apply as long as they are an incorporated organisation set up to deliver charitable purpose, social purpose or public benefit and have a viable plan for taking ownership of a community asset at risk and running it sustainably for community benefit.
Suez Communities Fund
Suez Communities Trust is offering grants of between £3,000 and £50,000 for constituted not-for-profit groups across England to deliver projects that make capital improvements to public amenities.
Approximately £1.6 million is available per year for projects in communities surrounding a qualifying SUEZ Recycling and Recovery site that are open to the public as a minimum of either 4 evenings a week, 2 days a week, or 104 days a year. Examples include:
- Village hall improvements.
- Nature reserves and conservation.
- Village greens.
- Community centres.
- Public playgrounds.
- Cycle paths.
- Sports fields and facilities.
- Country parks.
- Historic buildings, structures, or sites.
Improvements to places of religious worship will only be considered if they are Grade I designated. Projects to improve other historic buildings, structures or sites must be Grade I, II or II*, or have another significant heritage designation such as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Heritage in Need: Places of Worship
Grants of between £10,000 and £10 million are available for not-for-profit organisations to support places of worship across the UK to address heritage issues, such as the repair needs of listed buildings, workforce and volunteer capabilities, and supporting heritage in places of worship that are inaccessible, at risk, or under-used.
National Lottery Heritage Fund is making at least £15 million available over the next three years for strategic projects at a regional or national level that will proactively tackle long-standing issues, enable co-ordinated cross-territory approaches, address gaps, and accelerate new ideas and interventions, including but not limited to:
- Projects at scale that develop the processes, systems, and infrastructure needed through a change in use, management, or ownership.
- Projects that establish the cultural and heritage significance of places of worship where that may be at risk of loss.
- Capacity-building projects that can provide broader support, advice, and guidance for owners and managers of historic religious buildings and sites.
- Initiatives that bring together many organisations, faith groups, and funders to collaborate and find solutions to issues facing places of worship and heritage.
- Exploring feasibility for more sustainable options for existing or new uses for places of worship.
- Projects that trial different approaches to managing places of worship at an area scale.
- Projects that explore the heritage of places of worship to support and contribute to the local and visitor economy at a national or regional level.
Applications for up to £250,000 can be submitted at any time and decisions are made monthly. For grants over £250,000, decisions are made on a quarterly basis by the Committee of the applicant’s nation or area or by the board of trustees (the next deadline for applications over £250,000 is 15 August 2024).
England and Wales Cricket Board - Grass Pitch Improvement Fund
The Grass Pitch Improvement Fund (GPIF) is administered by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The funding is intended to support investment into three main areas:
- Improving the quality of squares and outfields (for grass pitches rated 'unsuitable' or 'basic' to improve to at least 'good').
- Creating sustainable management of sites (through irrigation and machinery improvements).
- Installing hybrid pitches to increase playing capacity.
The amount of grant will be determined by the ECB on a case-by-case basis.
Applications will be accepted from cricket clubs and other organisations affiliated to the ECB via their local CCB or CF, or that affiliate to the ECB nationally via the African Caribbean Cricket Association (ACCA) or National Asian Cricket Council (NACC).
In addition, the ECB, CCBs or CFs may solicit applications from state funded Schools and Further Education establishments, Local Authorities, or targeted Community Groups in support of local strategies.
Priority will be given to applications which support cricket for the following groups:
- Women's and girls' cricket.
- Cricket in diverse communities.
- Disability cricket.
- Low socio-economic groups (LSEG).
Barratt Foundation Grants Programme
Grants are available for registered and exempt charities who are working in England, Scotland or Wales to help communities thrive by focusing on children, young people and those most disadvantaged. The current funding is intended to support the following:
- Promoting social inclusion, with a specific focus on young people and the most disadvantaged and excluded in society.
- Promoting physical and mental health.
- Education and opportunity.
Grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available.
Charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or Office of Scottish Charity Regulator can apply. This includes Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and exempt charities (as defined by the Charity Commission).
There are currently two application rounds per year. The second application round for 2024 is not expected to open before September 2024.
Memorial Grant Scheme
Grants are available to help with VAT on the construction, repair and maintenance of public memorial structures in the UK for work which took place on or after 16 March 2005.
The funding is intended to cover the costs of VAT already paid. The maximum grant available is the full rate of VAT (20% of project costs). Applications will be accepted from registered charities and faith groups excepted from registering as a charity to help with the cost of works like repairing and cleaning public memorials or installing a new memorial.
The memorial can commemorate a person/people, an animal/s or event/s. The funding can only be provided for works that have already taken place. It cannot be used for future works. Part-funding is available for ongoing work for parts of the work which have been completed.
To be eligible, the memorial must:
- Be a public memorial
- Be a structure or involve construction
- Have a commemorative purpose
- Be single purpose.
- Be accessible to the public allowing people to visit, reflect, and pay their respects. The public must have access for at least 30 hours per week.
Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund
UK registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations based and working in the UK that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending, either within a local area or nationally may apply for small grants of up to £5,000 or larger grants with no set limit.
The funding is intended for registered charities working to:
- Support offenders and ex-offenders into work, specifically for those looking to build skills and capability to get into sustainable work.
- Help specific groups within the criminal justice sector that are less popular with funders than others.
- Support young people (up to 25 years) from disadvantaged and socio-economically challenged groups, such as immigrants, to ensure they are given every possible chance to realise their full potential and to participate fully in society.
Grants are normally awarded for one year only, though exceptions can be made.
Whilst the size of organisation is not relevant when making an application, it may be easier for smaller organisations to demonstrate impact.
The funding can be used for:
- Pump-priming - particularly where the grant would support a project piloting new approaches and where that grant would form a major element of the funding or where it would be matched by other funders.
- Project funding - preference is to support projects where the grant is used for an identified purpose.
- Associated project costs - applicants should include the cost of any overheads associated with the work, such as office/secretarial support, so that the project is not under-funded.
- Core costs for new projects - including staff salaries, training and overheads that enable an organisation to develop and maintain expertise..
- Innovative or pioneering work – new ideas are encouraged and projects that could inspire similar work in other areas of the country.
Vegan Society Grants
The Vegan Society, a UK charity which exists to increase awareness of veganism for the benefit of people, animals and the environment, has announced it will accept applications during the month of July 2024.
This year, the Society is offering grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 with an eye to supporting fewer projects but those having a higher impact.
The funding is intended for new and innovative projects which will encourage non-vegans to go vegan and stay vegan.
The Society is looking for projects that:
- Raise public awareness of veganism in a positive way.
- Promote veganism in a unique or exciting way to non-vegans.
- Support people from marginalised backgrounds to access veganism.
2024 Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund
Capital grants are available for village halls in rural areas across England to enhance, upgrade, extend, improve, and construct halls so that, as a result, new activities can take place bringing communities together.
The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide activities which seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes for their communities:
- Improved health and/or wellbeing and/or reduction in rural loneliness.
- Positive impact on the local environment, contributes towards net zero.
- Support for the local rural economy.
- Promotion of community cohesion.
Grants of between £7,500 and £75,000 which will be 20% of capital project costs, including VAT.
All project work must be completed by 31 March 2025.
Foundation Derbyshire
Foundation Derbyshire offers a wide variety of funding programmes available to not-for-profit organisations working across Derby and Derbyshire. You can apply for up to £2,500 however please be aware that application levels are now the highest since 2016. There are so many community groups new and old needing financial assistance. We’ll keep working to encourage local philanthropy, increasing our ability to help those delivering fantastic services in the hearts of our communities.
International Tree Foundation - UK Community Tree Planting Programme
The International Tree Foundation is offering grants for community-based organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects that protect and restore indigenous trees and woodlands, support community engagement in tree planting, and increase awareness of the importance of trees and forests to environmental and human well-being.
The UK Community Tree Planting Programme will support projects that meet the following essential criteria:
- Plant trees in public/publicly accessible spaces: sites that are readily accessible to the public, including schools, parks, rights of way, and sites managed by community groups.
- Plant indigenous tree species: this may include traditional fruit trees and ‘honorary’ natives where appropriate.
- Engage community members in tree planting and enjoying the benefits of woodlands.
- Have clear plans for maintenance and sustainability.
In addition, for this funding round proposed projects must meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Engage children and young adults in tree planting and learning about trees.
- Engage vulnerable groups and groups with low access to woodlands.
- Create biodiversity in habitats.
- Conserve soil and water.
- Demonstrate new approaches, such as agroforestry.Support rewilding and natural regeneration.
- Support work or research on tree pest and disease resistance and climate change adaptation.
- Support urban tree planting.