Environment and resources
Environment and resources
Introduction
Here you will find funding opportunities from other organisations relating to our universal theme of environment and resources.
Aviva Community Fund
Aviva, in partnership with WWF and the RSPB, is giving £1 million to support community groups across the UK to protect and restore nature in their local area. The Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund offers match funding (2:1) to individual donations made to a project of up to £250 per donation and £5000 per organisation. Charities and community organsiations can apply for projects taking action for nature in one of the following ways: nature restoration - activity that boots local biodiversity; nature connectedness and pro-environmental behaviours; community cohesion and connection.
Deadline: rolling deadline.
Friends Provident Foundation
Charities, social enterprises, and private companies can apply for funding from the Friends Provident Foundation's 4D Economy Grants to support projects and activities that promote fairness and sustainability in the economy. The grants focus on four key areas: diversification, decarbonisation, democratisation, and decentralisation. Main grants of up to £200,000 are available for projects or core funding and applications can be made at any time, with decisions within 3- 6 months. Small grants of up to £10,000 are also available to new and emergent organsiations, specific projects wishing to test an idea and projects bringing forward current marginalised voices in the economy, with decisions made within six weeks.
Deadline: rolling
Apply here.
Matthew Good Foundation
Grants for good supports small organisations, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment; have an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months and have a bank account in the organisation's name. Every quarter five shortlisted projects will share £15,000 in unrestricted funds for any of their organisation's costs.
Deadline: Funding rounds are quarterly; next deadline is 15 December
Real Farming Trust
Real Farming Trust understands the challenges that agroecological food and farming enterprises face in raising finance, whether that is waiting for a grant to come through or having the funds to grow and develop when you have no assets to secure against. The Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme (LEAP) offers you a mix of affordable loans and grants, side by side with a comprehensive mentoring programme and hands on approach. LEAP is a new model for financing and supporting food and farming enterprises that puts people and the biosphere at the heart of our food system. LEAP will provide a critical next step for community based agroecological enterprises that have relied on grant funding to date and who have had nowhere to go to finance their onward development.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Rewilding Britain
The idea behind the Rewilding Innovation Fund is to help remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. The fund is particularly keen to encourage applications from those who are taking an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding, which will help develop learning and evidence for others within the Rewilding network. Funds are awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
The Cruach Trust
The Trust provides grants of up to £2,000 for projects on the natural environment, including gardens, and for community and music-related organisations throughout the United Kingdom. Registered or recognised charities, societies, trusts or other bodies. The Trust will only consider applications from Scottish organisations with an income of less than £500,000. Grants awarded previously include supporting a horticultural apprenticeship, arranged through the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and grants for gardens, wildlife and the natural environment; for organisations working with children, young carers, the elderly, vulnerable and homeless; for music, the arts and cultural charities and for medical research and support.
Deadline: Friday 23 August 2024
Apply here.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity. They support UK charities and CIOs (charitable incorporated organisations) tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts. The trust will prioritise organisations that are medium-sized (with income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Nineveh Charitable Trust
Supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting a better understanding of the countryside. The Trust's aims are to promote the health, welfare and education of the general public and promotes; the study and appreciation of agriculture, silviculture, ecology and land management and the study and appreciation of land and estate management that encourages conservation of the countryside. Funding proposals from UK-registered charities and CICs (individual applicants may be considered) should address these aims.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply here.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation welcomes applications for grants of £5,000 from registered charities. The Foundation will support core costs, including staffing but will not contribute to capital projects. Charities must be working in one of their priority areas, currently:
- The development of culture and the arts.
- The development and provision of educational opportunities for adults and / or children.
- Protection, preservation or enhancement of the natural environment.
- Creating stronger / better / more sustainable communities.
- Promoting health and medicine, with an emphasis on research or education. They currently don't consider applications from Hospices.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Tree Council
Small grants are available for community tree planting through The Tree Council's grants programme, Branching Out. Community groups, schools, small registered charities, and Tree Warden Networks that are seeking to establish trees, hedgerows, and orchards in the 2023/24 planting season are eligible. Branching Out provides grants ranging from £250 to £2,500 in value. For amounts below £500 there is a streamlined process promising quicker decision making.
Deadline: 3 December
UK's National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
NLCF is making £10 million in funding available for community-led projects focused on the connection between energy use and climate change. Through the Climate Action Fund: Energy and Climate, community and voluntary organisations can apply for grants ranging from £500,000 to £1.5 million over 2 to 5 years. By addressing household energy use, which accounts for 20% of the country's carbon emissions, these projects aim to reduce carbon emissions while benefiting people's finances, health, and well-being. The NLCF encourages applications from local and UK-wide partnerships, as well as individual community organisations. Additionally, £1.5 million has been set aside for establishing an Energy Learning Network.
Deadline: Applications for the Climate Action Fund are open until at least December 2023, and the deadline for Energy Learning Network funding is 28 July 2023.
Volunteering Matters Action Earth
Grants to help urban communities respond to nature and climate crises. Funded by NatureScot, these nature grants support volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in practical outdoor activities in Scotland’s cities, towns and villages. Any group of volunteers (minimum 15 involved) in urban areas are able to apply for Volunteering Matters Action Earth nature grants of between £50 and £250 to run environmental activities in Scotland’s green spaces in built-up places and centres of population and their surroundings. Project sites must be accessible to the general public. Costs for plants, tools, materials and volunteer expenses can be claimed. Projects must be completed by 31 January 2024.
Aviva Community Fund
Aviva, in partnership with WWF and the RSPB, is giving £1 million to support community groups across the UK to protect and restore nature in their local area. The Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund offers match funding (2:1) to individual donations made to a project of up to £250 per donation and £5000 per organisation. Charities and community organsiations can apply for projects taking action for nature in one of the following ways: nature restoration - activity that boots local biodiversity; nature connectedness and pro-environmental behaviours; community cohesion and connection.
Deadline: rolling deadline.
Friends Provident Foundation
Charities, social enterprises, and private companies can apply for funding from the Friends Provident Foundation's 4D Economy Grants to support projects and activities that promote fairness and sustainability in the economy. The grants focus on four key areas: diversification, decarbonisation, democratisation, and decentralisation. Main grants of up to £200,000 are available for projects or core funding and applications can be made at any time, with decisions within 3- 6 months. Small grants of up to £10,000 are also available to new and emergent organsiations, specific projects wishing to test an idea and projects bringing forward current marginalised voices in the economy, with decisions made within six weeks.
Deadline: rolling
Apply here.
Matthew Good Foundation
Grants for good supports small organisations, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment; have an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months and have a bank account in the organisation's name. Every quarter five shortlisted projects will share £15,000 in unrestricted funds for any of their organisation's costs.
Deadline: Funding rounds are quarterly; next deadline is 15 December
Real Farming Trust
Real Farming Trust understands the challenges that agroecological food and farming enterprises face in raising finance, whether that is waiting for a grant to come through or having the funds to grow and develop when you have no assets to secure against. The Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme (LEAP) offers you a mix of affordable loans and grants, side by side with a comprehensive mentoring programme and hands on approach. LEAP is a new model for financing and supporting food and farming enterprises that puts people and the biosphere at the heart of our food system. LEAP will provide a critical next step for community based agroecological enterprises that have relied on grant funding to date and who have had nowhere to go to finance their onward development.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
Rewilding Britain
The idea behind the Rewilding Innovation Fund is to help remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. The fund is particularly keen to encourage applications from those who are taking an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding, which will help develop learning and evidence for others within the Rewilding network. Funds are awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.
Deadline: none currently.
Apply here.
The Cruach Trust
The Trust provides grants of up to £2,000 for projects on the natural environment, including gardens, and for community and music-related organisations throughout the United Kingdom. Registered or recognised charities, societies, trusts or other bodies. The Trust will only consider applications from Scottish organisations with an income of less than £500,000. Grants awarded previously include supporting a horticultural apprenticeship, arranged through the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and grants for gardens, wildlife and the natural environment; for organisations working with children, young carers, the elderly, vulnerable and homeless; for music, the arts and cultural charities and for medical research and support.
Deadline: Friday 23 August 2024
Apply here.
The Dulverton Trust
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity. They support UK charities and CIOs (charitable incorporated organisations) tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts. The trust will prioritise organisations that are medium-sized (with income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Nineveh Charitable Trust
Supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting a better understanding of the countryside. The Trust's aims are to promote the health, welfare and education of the general public and promotes; the study and appreciation of agriculture, silviculture, ecology and land management and the study and appreciation of land and estate management that encourages conservation of the countryside. Funding proposals from UK-registered charities and CICs (individual applicants may be considered) should address these aims.
Deadline: Rolling
Apply here.
The Shears Foundation
The Shears Foundation welcomes applications for grants of £5,000 from registered charities. The Foundation will support core costs, including staffing but will not contribute to capital projects. Charities must be working in one of their priority areas, currently:
- The development of culture and the arts.
- The development and provision of educational opportunities for adults and / or children.
- Protection, preservation or enhancement of the natural environment.
- Creating stronger / better / more sustainable communities.
- Promoting health and medicine, with an emphasis on research or education. They currently don't consider applications from Hospices.
Deadline: rolling.
Apply here.
The Tree Council
Small grants are available for community tree planting through The Tree Council's grants programme, Branching Out. Community groups, schools, small registered charities, and Tree Warden Networks that are seeking to establish trees, hedgerows, and orchards in the 2023/24 planting season are eligible. Branching Out provides grants ranging from £250 to £2,500 in value. For amounts below £500 there is a streamlined process promising quicker decision making.
Deadline: 3 December
UK's National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
NLCF is making £10 million in funding available for community-led projects focused on the connection between energy use and climate change. Through the Climate Action Fund: Energy and Climate, community and voluntary organisations can apply for grants ranging from £500,000 to £1.5 million over 2 to 5 years. By addressing household energy use, which accounts for 20% of the country's carbon emissions, these projects aim to reduce carbon emissions while benefiting people's finances, health, and well-being. The NLCF encourages applications from local and UK-wide partnerships, as well as individual community organisations. Additionally, £1.5 million has been set aside for establishing an Energy Learning Network.
Deadline: Applications for the Climate Action Fund are open until at least December 2023, and the deadline for Energy Learning Network funding is 28 July 2023.
Volunteering Matters Action Earth
Grants to help urban communities respond to nature and climate crises. Funded by NatureScot, these nature grants support volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities in practical outdoor activities in Scotland’s cities, towns and villages. Any group of volunteers (minimum 15 involved) in urban areas are able to apply for Volunteering Matters Action Earth nature grants of between £50 and £250 to run environmental activities in Scotland’s green spaces in built-up places and centres of population and their surroundings. Project sites must be accessible to the general public. Costs for plants, tools, materials and volunteer expenses can be claimed. Projects must be completed by 31 January 2024.