There are a number of grants and awards which may be applicable for funding local biodiversity projects.

 

More information about funding, including events and training courses on how to apply for funding can be found at http://www.emfunders.org.uk/.

 

 

» Amber Valley Community Environment Fund

 

» Chesterfield Borough Council's Sustainable Community Grants

 

» Derbyshire County Council's Green Action Grants

 

» Derby City Council's Green Cash Community Action Grant scheme

 

» High Peak Community Fund

 

» South Derbyshire Community Partnership Scheme

 

 

 

 

» East Midlands Airport Community Fund (for projects within a specified area around the airport)

 

» England Woodland Grant Scheme

 

» Environmental Stewardship

 

» Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice

 

» Grantscape

An environmental grant making charity which offers advice and information as well as grants.

 

» National Forest Company's grant schemes

 

»Woodland Trust Community Tree Planting Grant (UK)


Charitable Trusts and Foundations
 
There are many with a large amount of money to distribute.  They all have their own criteria which can change every two or three years.  The application process often involves writing a letter to make your case.  Organisations and not-for-profit organisations can apply. These Trusts are a good starting point:

» The Tubney Charitable Trust

 

» The Tudor Trust

» The Conservation Foundation 

 

» Idlewild Trust (UK)

 

» The Naturesave Trust

 

» Garfield Weston 

 

» Kenneth Hargreaves Trust - small one-off grants, especially to groups using volunteers; some preference for Yorkshire charities. Write with a budget and an annual report to: Mrs Sheila Holbrook, Hon Treasurer, Bridge End Cottage, Linton, Wetherby LS22 4JB. Trustees meet quarterly.

 

» O² Its your Community

 
This is the process that channels tax from land filling rubbish into community projects.  Each landfill operator has set up its own environmental organisation and grant scheme which means there is not a central information source.  Each scheme has it own eligibility criteria but there is some common ground.  All project applications have to be within 16 km of an active landfill site.  Projects can be for public amenities, biodiversity work, heritage etc.

 

Help and advice for Derbyshire projects can be enlisted from Derbyshire Environmental Trust - DET (Tel 01629 580000 x7614).

 

Listed below are some individual schemes - check the details carefully to ensure they include relvant criteria.

» Waste Recycling Group

 

» Derbyshire Aggregates Levy Grant Scheme

» Breathing Places

» The Big Lottery Fund

 

» Access to Nature

 

» Community Spaces

 

» Awards for All Lottery Fund
For small grants up to £10,000.  Simple application.  A quick turn around of 12 weeks is promised.

 

» Heritage Lottery Fund
Several programmes and not just bricks and mortar or museum pieces but landscape and natural environments as well.  They support what is called 'intrinsic heritage' - that is things important to local communities.  So it is open for the community to make its case.  A key to success is the HLF desire to broaden the appeal of heritage and make it available to a wider audience.

 

The scheme which is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund provides grants of between £250,000 and £2 million to local partnerships representing a range of heritage and community interests to tackle the needs of landscapes, whose various elements may be in different ownership. Funding is available for applications based round a portfolio of projects, which combine to provide a varied package of benefits to an area, its communities which live, work and visit there.