Environmental funding
Action Earth
Community groups registering an environmental project can receive a £50 grant to help buy materials and tools. Projects must improve the local environment, involve volunteers or meet a community need. There is also an opportunity to win £500 cash.
Action Earth, CSV Environment, St Peter's College, College Road, Saltley, Birmingham B8 3TE
Tel: 0121 328 7455
Email: naseem@csvenvironment.org.uk
Website: www.actionearth.org.uk
Awards for All
Grants up to £10,000 from the Awards for All programme are open to not-for-profit organisations, including parish and town councils, schools and health bodies.
They can be used to support small-scale projects that promote arts and education, encourage healthier living, develop local sports, support heritage initiatives and boost community
Awards for All South East, 3rd Floor, Dominion House, Woodbridge Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4BN
Tel: 08454 102030
Email: south.east@awardsforall.org.uk
Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk
Biffaward
Biffaward is a landfill tax credit funded scheme and so projects must be within 10 miles of a Biffa operation (a postcode search is available on the website). Varying levels of funding are available for flagship projects (up to £500,000), small grants projects (up to £5,000) and biodiveristy projects (discretionary). The aim of the scheme is to: Provide and improve public amenities; Create, Restore and Manage areas specifically to increase biodiversity; Enable smaller groups to access funding more easily; and Support community led regeneration schemes of regional or national significance.
Tel. 01636 670000
Email biffaward@rswt.org
The Big Lottery Fund
Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out half the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery, giving a budget of about £630 million a year. Funding covers health, education, environment and charitable purposes. They are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.
3rd Floor Dominion House, Woodbridge Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4BN
Tel: 01468 462900
Email: enquiries.se@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Charles Hayward Foundation
This trust focuses on the South East and one priority is Art, Preservation and the Environment. This includes the purchase of land or reclamation of recently purchased land to be used for nature reserves or inner-city gardens, parks and artefacts. industrial heritage and the conservation of gardens.
David Brown, Hayward House, 45 Harrington Gardens, London SW7 4JU
Tel: 020 7370 7063
Website: www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
Makes grants to charities and churches in Kent aiming to improve quality of life, tackle poverty, social isolation or exclusion and protect the natural resources and heritage of the local areas for their inhabitants.
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
2 Friars Lane Ricmond Surrey
TW9 1NL
Tel 0208 288 9101
Email admin@cfct.org.uk
Website:www.cfct.org.uk
Community Paths Project
Small grants are available for Public Rights of Way improvement. This could be anything that affects the surface or features of a footpath, bridleway or byway. Applicants are encouraged to involve volunteers as money can only be given to projects which can be carried out by volunteers.
Ben Collins, Community Paths Officer, Public Rights of Way, Invicta House, County Hall, Maidstone ME14 1XX
Tel: 0845 3450210
Email: rowip@kent.gov.uk or community.paths@kent.gov.uk
Website: www.kent.gov.uk/countrysideaccess
Dartford Borough Council Environmental Award
Grants of up to £250 for projects that improve the local environment – the project could be anything from improving a green area, promoting healthy eating, school recycling schemes through to using alternative technologies such as solar and wind power. Groups, schools and organisations can make one application per year and the grant can only be used for the purposes set out in the application form.
Sandra Woodfall, Environmental Promotions Officer, Dartford Borough Council, Home Gardens, Dartford, Kent DA1 1DR
Tel: 01322 343056
Email: Sandra.woodfall@dartford.gov.uk
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Gives grants for charitable purposes in four Programme areas: Arts and Heritage; Education; Environment; and Social Development. There is no maximum grant size.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 11 Park Place , London SW1A 1LP
Tel: 020 7297 4700
Fax 020 7297 4701
Email info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Website: www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
It's your Community
The Conservation Foundation and O2 have teamed up for this new grant scheme. Awards of up to £1000 are available to local groups and individuals for the hire of tools or equipment, and to purchase plants, paint, signs, materials etc.
The awards are open to community and voluntary organisations such as heritage groups, youth clubs, parish and village councils, environmental and conservation groups.
All types of environmental projects are welcome to apply, from anywhere in the country.
Application forms are available from O2 shops and from the Conservation Foundation. Successful applicants may also be eligible for a further ‘Well Done Award’ if you send in ‘before and after’ photos to show what their project has achieved.
The Conservation Foundation, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Tel: 0207 591 3111
Website:www.itsyourcommunity.co.uk/
The Wates Foundation
Arts, Heritage and the Environment - To contribute to mainstream culture through the Arts, the conservation and promotion of the national heritage, and the rural and urban environment. Grants of up to £25,000 a year for a maximum of three years.
Brian Wheelwright, Director, The Wates Foundation, Wates House, Station Approach, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7SW
Tel: 01372 861000 Fax: 01372 861252
E-mail: director@watesfoundation.org.uk
Website: www.watesfoundation.org.uk
