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The strand is now open for applications and will operate until at least the end of 2015.
We are delighted to be working with the Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear Northumberland
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has launched a fund to support organisations in the early stages
Editorial
In 2011 the Foundation turned fifty and to mark our anniversary we commissioned a short film with some stories about what we do.
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Towards the costs of piloting a behaviour change service for employees of large corporations.
http://www.dothegreenthing.com
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability
Region: UK Wide
£20,000 over 12 months
Main Fund
Towards the Local Action, Global Impact programme.
http://www.prospectsfoundation.org.uk
Keywords: Environment
Region: North West
£10,000 over 12 months
Towards core salary costs.
http://www.scotlink.org
Keywords: Campaigning, Capacity Building, Environment
Region: Scotland
£67,500 over 36 months
Towards the cost of paying for financial legal advice related to the organisation's plan to become a subsidiary of Habinteg housing association.
http://www.cae.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Sustainability
Towards the salary of the chief economist.
http://www.green-alliance.org.uk
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Sustainability
£259,545 over 36 months
Towards the core costs of an organisation that campaigns for a more coordinated transport policy that serves travellers better and is kinder to the environment.
http://www.transport2000.org.uk
£225,000 over 36 months
Towards the salary of the director and the costs of annual projects on wildlife and chemicals.
http://www.chemtrust.org.uk
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Human Rights, Social Change, Sustainability
Featured grant: CHEM Trust
£215,000 over 60 months
Towards a network of 'Ashden Alumni' and a series of five seminars involving award winners and Esm
http://www.ashdenawards.org
£25,000 over 18 months
Towards the ongoing work of the Llyn Brianne stream observatory network.
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi/index.html
Keywords: Environment, Freshwater
Region: Wales
£75,000 over 60 months
Towards the first phase of the Superhomes Programme, ensuring that an environmentally excellent home open to the public is within 15 minutes of everyone in the UK by 2020.
http://www.s-ea.org.uk
£78,000 over 12 months
Towards core costs while LCC develops its income generation capacity.
http://www.lcc.org.uk
Region: London
£105,000 over 36 months
Towards non-capital costs of a prototype of a self-build eco house to teach self-builders how to build affordable village homes under Community Land Trusts.
http://www.landsociety.org
£29,500 over 12 months
Towards the programme costs of 'Cycle into Work', which will provide homeless people with skills in bike repair and customer service that will help them to gain employment in the industry.
http://www.bikeworks.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Mental Health, Poverty Relief, Social Change, Supporting Individuals, Sustainability
Featured grant: Bikeworks
£120,000 over 36 months
Towards the development of a Community Land Bank initiative that makes land available to community groups for growing projects and other purposes.
http://www.farmgarden.org.uk
£114,999 over 36 months
Towards an environmental project designed to reduce the amount of marine litter in our seas by physically removing it, and to improve waste management practices in the fishing industry.
http://www.fishingforlitter.org
Region: South West
£63,906 over 36 months
Towards the costs of preserving the biodiversity of a rare piece of common land.
Keywords: Environment, Public Open Space, Terrestrial
£16,420 over 36 months
Towards research to tackle the invasive freshwater Ponto-Caspian 'Killer Shrimp', Dikerogammarus villosus.
http://www.qub.ac.uk
£20,000 over 5 months
Bio Diversity Strand This strand is closed now - please refer to the Main Fund for information on eligibility.
Towards establishing a community food growing network, which will promote and practically support community food growing and seek to influence policy on community land use.
http://www.btcv.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Sustainability
Region: Yorkshire And The Humber
£39,500 over 24 months
Towards the salary of a programme assistant to enable capacity development within an organisation using films to inspire and catalyse more effective responses to global concerns and helping to build community cohesion.
http://www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Human Rights, Poverty Relief, Social Change, Sustainability
£30,000 over 24 months
Towards a project to save the UK's most threatened coastal dune plant species and to establish a new best practice approach for dune management.
http://www.plantlife.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Marine, Terrestrial
£81,683 over 36 months
Towards the salary of the chief executive, highlighting and achieving change on the problem of plastic in our oceans.
http://www.plasticoceans.net/
Keywords: Arts, Education and Learning, Environment, Marine, Visual Arts
£65,000 over 12 months
Towards core salaries of an organisation that seeks to ensure that bee populations thrive across the UK through education and awareness raising.
http://www.beeguardianfoundation.org
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Terrestrial
£61,600 over 24 months
Towards core costs to help consolidate and extend peer-led work around inspiring and supporting young people to live more sustainable and fairer lifestyles, and then lead their own green projects.
http://www.otesha.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Campaigning, Children, Climate Change, Environment, Participatory Arts, Skills Development, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Young Adults
£90,000 over 36 months
Towards raising awareness of coppicing and to promote its practice as a financially viable woodland- management option across the UK.
http://www.smallwoods.org.uk
Towards training volunteers as biological recorders of groups of difficult invertebrates.
http://www.field-studies-council.org
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment
Region: West Midlands
£15,073 over 12 months
Towards development costs of practical and effective techniques to enhance the regeneration and reinstatement of marine biogenic reefs in tide swept coastal environments.
http://www.sls.hw.ac.uk
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Marine
£89,976 over 36 months
Towards the salary of a food alliance co-ordinator to oversee a project which will enable homeless people to grow food on disused and under-used sites across Liverpool, which will be given to soup kitchens and homelessness projects.
http://www.liverpoolymca.org
Keywords: Adults, Environment, Homelessness, Older People, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Supporting Individuals, Young Adults
£70,000 over 36 months
Towards the North Somerset Wetland Programme.
http://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Freshwater, Terrestrial
£190,000 over 36 months
Towards a traditional orchard inventory of Wales.
http://www.ptes.org
£70,000 over 24 months
Towards the salary of the manager to enable a community horticultural project for disadvantaged people to become more self-sustaining in the longer term.
Keywords: Climate Change, Education and Learning, Environment, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Raising Academic Attainment, Special Education Needs, Sustainability
Regions: Sc, Scotland
£10,000 over 24 months
Towards costs of developing guidance on the safe use of biochar.
http://www.ed.ac.uk
£54,800 over 24 months
Towards awareness raising work around marine life and Marine Protected Areas in the North Sea.
http://www.ywt.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Marine
Featured grant: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
£126,668 over 24 months
Towards novel drama delivery via narrowboat to rural communities.
http://www.mikron.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Education and Learning, Environment
Featured grant: Mikron Theatre Company
Towards the salaries and costs of an electric vehicle adoption programme for fleet owners to promote more rapid adoption of lower environmental impact transport.
http://www.theclimategroup.org
£70,000 over 12 months
Towards the ongoing work of the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, in particular the post of honey bee research facilities manager.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lasi/
Region: South East
£311,262 over 60 months
Towards the development and implementation of business models for local community woodfuel supply chains and energy supply companies in Northern Scotland.
http://www.highlandbirchwoods.co.uk
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Sustainability
£65,292 over 18 months
Towards core support for early stage growth, providing pro-bono support to carbon reducing community projects from a wide range of professions in one integrated service.
http://carbonleapfrog.org
£60,000 over 24 months
Towards the salary of the Floodplain Meadows Partnership project co-ordinator.
http://www.open.ac.uk/developmentoffice
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Freshwater, Terrestrial
£116,840 over 36 months
Towards a new post for the creation of voluntary Marine Protected Areas in Northern Ireland.
http://www.ulsterwildlifetrust.org
Keywords: Advocacy, Campaigning, Environment, Marine, Social Change
Region: Northern Ireland
Towards the salary of the environmental land management project officer associated with the Lincolnshire grazing marshes project.
http://www.lincstrust.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Terrestrial
Region: Eastern
£20,621 over 8 months
Towards the costs of surveys of forest footprint disclosure, helping companies understand their exposure to tropical deforestation.
http://www.globalcanopy.org
£150,000 over 36 months
Towards core costs to represent the needs of its members to decision makers, including the Northern Ireland Assembly.
http://www.nienvironmentlink.org
Featured grant: Northern Ireland Environment Link
Towards the costs of setting up a Wales office and a contribution towards the senior ecologist salary.
http://www.bto.org
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment
£105,035 over 48 months
Towards support of commons graziers.
http://www.common-threads.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Heritage, Poverty Relief, Public Open Space, Social Change
£64,750 over 36 months
Towards the wetland restoration project.
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk
£162,000 over 36 months
Towards the costs of research and report production to map community action on climate change with a focus on the links between process and outcome.
£35,250 over 6 months
Towards research and public awareness and involvement in the work with the European Eel in the River Thames.
http://www.zsl.org
£118,650 over 36 months
Towards conserving and promoting traditional northern fruit varieties.
http://www.northernfruitgroup.com
Keywords: Arts, Education and Learning, Environment, Terrestrial
£4,100 over 24 months
Towards costs to examine the bioprotection value of plants and species on rocks and man made intertidal structures and to make practical recommendations for their use.
http://www.exeter.ac.uk
£117,307 over 24 months
Towards research into the tadpole shrimp and its habitat and conservation initiatives resulting from that work.
http://www.wwt.org.uk
£49,253 over 36 months
Towards core costs to assist with the delivery of projects that aim to improve awareness of environmental issues within Muslim communities.
http://www.ifees.org.uk
Keywords: BME, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability
£20,000 over 24 months
Towards salaries, volunteer expenses and office costs.
http://www.38degrees.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Human Rights, Social Change, Sustainability
£74,882 over 24 months
Towards the salaries of the conservation co-ordinator and a public engagement co-ordinator.
http://www.froglife.org
£155,398 over 36 months
Towards staff and core costs of this agency, bringing together the best minds in the advertising community to recreate climate change communication.
Towards research and conference costs of the British Waterways Re-made Project.
http://www.civa.org.uk
£38,770 over 6 months
Towards the cost of work to further nature conservation knowledge and management at the railway.
http://www.eastsomersetrailway.com
£1,700 over 12 months
Towards costs to establish a UK focal point to co-ordinate the input of UK environmental NGOs and environmental interests in the British standardisation process, thereby influencing the wider development of EU standards.
http://www.keepbritaintidy.org
£138,582 over 36 months
Towards the costs of a baseline survey of the aquatic biodiversity, chemistry and physical properties of natural and artificial pools found on upland peat bogs.
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/
£72,500 over 18 months
Towards advocacy work.
http://www.waleslink.org
Towards the post of community officer at Seaton Delaval Hall in Blyth.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Fostering Communities, Heritage, Social Change
Region: North East
£63,575 over 36 months
Towards the cost of habitat mapping, surveys and the work of marine volunteers to focus on intertidal habitats in Lyme and Poole Bays.
http://www.dorsetwildlife.co.uk
£80,000 over 36 months
Towards the Trout in the Town project on the River Don in Sheffield.
http://www.wildtrout.org
Keywords: Environment, Social Change
£12,000 over 12 months
Towards the costs of the ongoing marine protection work in Arran and the Clyde.
http://www.arrancoast.com
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Marine
Towards core posts in order to extend work into other West London boroughs.
http://www.environmenttrust.co.uk
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Sustainability
£30,000 over 36 months
Towards the Seagrass in the Solent project to survey and map nationally scarce seagrass plants.
http://www.hwt.org.uk
£48,334 over 24 months
Towards river headwater catchment surveying and improvement works in Staffordshire.
http://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk
£31,000 over 17 months
Towards project costs for Wildlife Where You Live.
http://www.denmarkfarm.org.uk
£34,500 over 36 months
Towards the salary of the co-ordinator.
http://www.helfordmarineconservation.co.uk
£20,000 over 36 months
Towards the costs of the Wellbeing in the Environment project which will provide environmental and volunteering opportunities for adults with a mental health problem or learning disability.
http://www.lowluckensfarm.co.uk
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Mental Health, Social Change, Supporting Individuals
£19,107 over 12 months
Towards core members of staff, legal work and materials to support marine work.
http://www.nimtf.org/
£170,768 over 36 months
Towards core members of staff to support marine work.
£173,589 over 36 months
£160,881 over 36 months
Towards the costs to produce an update on the 'State of Britain's Larger Moths' report.
http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/
£55,100 over 12 months
Towards the costs of the conservation advocacy work towards marine protected areas in the Irish Sea.
Towards a package of work to optimise opportunities for the Trust's ongoing sustainability.
http://www.bbcwildlife.org.uk
£100,000 over 36 months
Towards an educational and entertainment show to celebrate the international Year of Biodiversity.
http://www.desperatemen.com
Keywords: Arts, Environment
£13,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the director and the administration manager.
http://www.orcaweb.org.uk
£195,000 over 36 months
Towards the costs of an environmental justice campaign.
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk
£68,628 over 15 months
Towards core staff costs of a campaign around EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
http://www.sandbag.org.uk
£75,000 over 36 months
Towards the salary of the director and a contribution to core costs for a campaign to cut CO2 emissions by 10% in 2010.
http://www.1010uk.org
Towards a core member of staff to support marine work.
http://www.wcl.org.uk
Region: England
£97,152 over 36 months
Towards the costs of the green tax alliance, to build on the work of the Green Fiscal Commission.
http://www.psi.org.uk
£39,845 over 9 months
Towards the costs of achieving a greater understanding of Devon's sabellaria reefs.
http://www.devonwildlifetrust.org
£5,601 over 12 months
Towards research costs into Machair Grassland conservation in Western Scotland and the Islands.
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk
£100,940 over 24 months
Towards the salaries of two additional members of staff.
http://www.hbpt.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change
Towards research into genetic and species diversity in saltmarsh habitats and to influence restoration practice.
http://www.external.stir.ac.uk
£89,501 over 36 months
Towards research, conservation and to further public understanding of lichen.
http://www.rbge.org.uk
£102,352 over 36 months
Towards core costs and to support the organisation's programme to protect those affected by aircraft operations, and promote effective measures to manage aviation's climate impact.
http://www.aef.org.uk
£73,944 over 12 months
Towards membership development and research into possible office relocation.
http://www.mcsuk.org
£63,843 over 6 months
Towards research costs into jellyfish populations and lifecycles in the Irish Sea.
http://www.swan.ac.uk
£145,823 over 36 months
Towards establishing strong and coherent marine protected areas off the South East of England.
http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/
£148,906 over 36 months
Towards supporting the core costs of legal work that enforces environmental protection standards.
http://www.clientearth.org
Keywords: Campaigning, Climate Change, Environment, Marine
£465,000 over 36 months
Towards further monitoring and evaluation of Wicken Vision and Great Fen projects.
http://www.anglia.ac.uk
£89,886 over 36 months
Towards research of the Ditches in the Upper Thames Project to ascertain the extent to which they are stores and centres of biodiversity.
http://www.wildcru.org
£111,000 over 24 months
Towards the costs of the coalition co-ordinator and campaign costs to ensure that public space is made more accessible to pedestrians and other green modes of transport.
http://www.livingstreets.org.uk
Keywords: Campaigning, Capacity Building, Environment, Supporting Individuals
£110,322 over 36 months
Towards training and development costs.
http://www.transitionnetwork.org
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change
£75,000 over 28 months
Towards the salary of the operations manager.
http://www.faresharesouthwest.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Mental Health, Poverty Relief, Skills Development, Social Change, Sustainability
£70,452 over 36 months
Towards project delivery costs for 'On the Street' to engage hard to reach youth in redesigning redundant buildings and/or land.
http://www.biennial.com
Keywords: Arts, At Risk Youth, Children, Education and Learning, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change
£40,000 over 24 months
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/totnes
Towards the costs of the marine advocacy manager.
Towards core costs over three years to advance and strengthen FSC UK's delivery of services and the promotion of responsible forest management and ethical purchasing in the UK
http://www.fsc-uk.org
£60,000 over 36 months
Towards the costs of surveying and wetland restoration works.
http://www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk
£42,335 over 24 months
Towards research and survey costs of biological colonisation of Boscombe Surf Reef.
http://home.bournemouth.ac.uk/
£38,277 over 36 months
Towards the costs of the Aspen project.
http://www.scottishnativewoods.org.uk
£149,546 over 60 months
Towards research and publication costs of a new approach to alternatives to growth.
http://resolve.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/
£33,900 over 12 months
Towards continuation of two marine posts to deliver devolved legislation and planning for implementation of a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Northern Ireland.
£25,560 over 9 months
Towards salary costs to deliver a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Wales.
http://www.wildlifetrustswales.org
£21,875 over 9 months
Towards staff and campaign costs to support the development of a fit for purpose Marine Bill in Scotland.
£36,985 over 9 months
Towards the cost of data extraction, travel and costs for river temperature data.
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/faculties/faculty_engineering_environment.html
Towards the costs of the effective transition to National Park status for the South Downs.
http://www.cnp.org.uk
£67,121 over 36 months
Towards research and field work costs to determine changes in composition of seabed habitats around the UK over the last 200 years.
http://www.york.ac.uk/environment
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Heritage, Marine
£69,975 over 18 months
Towards the costs of producing a business guide to the UK's low carbon economy.
http://www.tomorrowscompany.com
£25,000 over 6 months
Towards the costs of the Car Tyre Noise Campaign.
http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk
£110,800 over 24 months
Towards a joint project with Conservatoire des Sites Naturels du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais to investigate habitat management in areas of chalk grasslands for adders.
http://www.kentarg.org
£4,000 over 12 months
Towards the cost of the 'Protect our Waves' campaign.
http://www.sas.org.uk
£23,000 over 12 months
Towards the Cairngorms Rare Plants Project.
http://www.cairngorms.co.uk
£80,540 over 36 months
Towards the cost of investigating the extent of Crayfish in Sheffield and to implement practical conservation.
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk
£36,900 over 24 months
Towards research and core costs for work on biofuels, genetically modified trees and crops, synthetic biology, geo-engineering in the UK, EU and Conventions on Biological Diversity.
http://www.econexus.info
Towards research costs of arable weeds, their associated invertebrates and their manipulation to encourage farm wildlife.
http://www.gwct.org.uk
£14,612 over 4 months
Towards the salary of a part-time education officer.
http://www.newcaledonianwoodlands.org
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Skills Development, Sustainability
£77,340 over 36 months
Towards the costs of the local food project to create a new England-wide, publicly accessible food-focused permaculture learning and demonstration network.
http://www.permaculture.org.uk
Towards a programme of work with emerging artists working with three UK universities.
http://www.capefarewell.com
Keywords: Artist Development, Arts, Combined Arts, Environment
£82,950 over 36 months
Towards the Lowland Peatlands Project.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/
£40,060 over 36 months
Towards the cost of financial and management support.
http://www.welshwildlife.org
£17,451 over 6 months
Towards research and data analysis costs.
http://www.transportenvironment.org
£27,090 over 24 months
Towards research into the factors affecting children's independent mobility.
Keywords: Children, Early Years, Environment, Public Open Space, Sustainability
£22,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a conservation ranger.
http://www.north-harris.org
£36,000 over 36 months
Towards core costs.
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Public Open Space, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Sustainability
£250,000 over 60 months
Towards the salary and costs of the director.
http://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org
£131,818 over 36 months
Towards the direct costs of evaluating the impact of The End of the Line.
http://www.britdoc.org
£30,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the business manager to promote urban regeneration.
http://www.greenestate.org.uk
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Poverty Relief, Social Change
£50,000 over 24 months
Towards the salary of the head of regions to co-ordinate and expand landscape scale projects across the UK.
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org
£123,167 over 36 months
Towards developing their reach and impact.
£74,500 over 24 months
Towards research to highlight the significance of wet fens as reservoirs of biodiversity.
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk
£78,515 over 24 months
Towards the costs of an initial survey to map the extent and condition of the seagrass and maerl habitat, and to disseminate the findings.
http://www.stmawes-harbour-conservation-trust.org/
Towards core posts to improve the cemetetery.
http://www.gencem.org
Keywords: Arts, BME, Environment, Fostering Communities, Heritage, Public Open Space, Social Change
Towards the salary of a part-time researcher, publication, dissemination and other project costs.
Keywords: BME, Disabilities, Environment, Food
Food Strand
Towards project costs to integrate social, cultural and environmental concerns in the context of sustainable development.
http://www.ben-network.org.uk
Keywords: BME, Environment
£16,647 over 12 months
Towards costs of research and a guide to the management of new broadleaf woodlands for conservation.
http://www.bearstedwoodlandtrust.org
£75,000 over 24 months
Towards the salary of a part-time post to assist development of integrated conservation policy.
http://www.prestwoodnature.org.uk/
£2,917 over 12 months
Towards research and other costs for a green industrial strategy.
http://www.christianaid.org.uk
£49,093 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a researcher and the costs of producing a report to encourage and support retailers to keep their doors closed while using heating or air conditioning.
http://www.closethedoor.org.uk
£21,500 over 12 months
Towards staff and consultancy costs of implementing a new finance system and to create a sustainable business model for the future.
http://www.somersetwildlife.org
£47,991 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the director of conservation.
http://www.grasslands-trust.org
£98,918 over 36 months
Towards the salary of a development worker to enable them to become more sustainable.
http://www.wcbs.org.uk
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Mental Health, Social Change
Towards staff costs to support work with local authorities on environmental issues.
http://www.sustainableni.org
Towards the cost of conserving a freshwater biodiversity hotspot.
http://www.gallowayfisheriestrust.org
£40,000 over 36 months
Towards core costs to support young, emerging leaders to address major social and environmental problems in the UK.
Towards project costs to create and restore ponds in the Tees Valley to provide habitats for fresh water biodiversity, using experimental research methods and a model partnerships approach.
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Freshwater, Skills Development, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society
£49,880 over 24 months
Towards capacity building in standardisation among environmental organisations in the UK.
http://www.ecostandard.org
£12,445 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the project officer and costs to involve local people in conservation of uncharismatic species on the River Marteg.
http://www.rwtwales.org
£47,042 over 36 months
Towards the costs of administrative and operational costs of Slow Down London.
http://www.slowdownlondon.co.uk
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Sustainability
Towards the salary of the director of the Arkive Project a centralised, permanent digital online library of wildlife images and films.
http://www.wildscreen.org.uk
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Visual Arts
Towards the crofting resources programme.
http://www.crofting.org
Keywords: Adults, Environment, Food, Fostering Communities, Poverty Relief, Social Change, Sustainability, Young Adults
£45,000 over 36 months
Towards the salary of a policy officer to improve capacity to engage with strategic policy issues.
http://www.cprw.org.uk
£96,100 over 36 months
Towards the costs of research and laboratory staff to define ecological niches of important saltmarsh plants.
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home
£125,000 over 24 months
Towards the costs to establish volunteer support and training in the new store in Bexhill.
http://www.hfs.org.uk
Keywords: Disabilities, Environment, Poverty Relief, Skills Development, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Social Mobility, Terrestrial
Towards the costs of identifying best practice in engagement, recruitment and retention of members across the voluntary sector.
http://www.swwt.org.uk
£19,500 over 12 months
Towards the cost of research validation for reptile survey work in the National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme (NARRS).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk
£92,644 over 24 months
Towards salary costs to support the launch of a new public campaign on climate change and emissions trading.
£30,750 over 12 months
Towards research costs into sustainable local energy generation.
£50,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the global climate change director.
http://www.e3g.org
£141,750 over 36 months
Towards staff, administration and marketing costs.
http://www.amazonails.org.uk
£31,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of an outreach worker.
Keywords: Advice & Information, Campaigning, Climate Change, Environment, Poverty Relief, Social Change, Terrestrial
£11,348 over 24 months
Towards the salary of a campaign manager.
http://www.cpre.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Sustainability, Terrestrial
£130,740 over 36 months
Towards grant funding to eight community transport organisations and a contribution to the costsof a programme that will strengthen their operational and financial capacity.
http://www.ctauk.org
£339,560 over 36 months
Towards costs of a global project to encourage companies to identify and disclose the commercial drivers of deforestation in their supply chains.
£43,880 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a part-time development worker to oversee the 'Local Action: Global Impact' programme which will enable disadvantaged communities to address the threat of climate change.
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society
Towards the salary and project costs to evaluate impact of anti-parasitic drugs on invertebrates.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biosciences/
£85,023 over 24 months
Towards core costs and the 'Good Catch' initiative. .
http://www.seaweb.org
Towards the costs of creating a wet meadow area, with board walk and hide.
http://www.foxglovecovert.org.uk
£16,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a volunteer co-ordinator to develop community self-reliance in this 'Transition Town'.
http://www.sustainablebrampton.org
Towards the costs of a Pesticide Free Park Programme working with London boroughs challenging them to be pesticide free in their maintenance of public parks and green spaces.
http://www.pan-uk.org
Keywords: Environment, Public Open Space
£73,788 over 24 months
Towards the salary of the chief executive to support volunteer litter-collecting groups.
http://www.cleanupuk.org.uk
Towards costs of establishing a network to spread awareness among local authorities of peak oil and to stimulate policies to protect communities against its worst impacts.
http://www.odac-info.org
Towards the cost of training for new regional volunteer wildlife recorders.
http://www.chesterzoo.org
£17,254 over 24 months
Towards the cost of conservation work on mosaic habitats on priority developed land.
http://www.buglife.org.uk
£157,115 over 36 months
Towards research costs designing artificial urban coastal habitats maximising biodiversity.
http://www.mba.ac.uk
Towards the start up costs of the Responsible Nano Forum which links NGOs, consumers and business, to engage and communicate with the general public and support the responsible development of nanotechnologies.
http://www.matterforall.org
Towards the salary of a new head of conservation to stabilise and rebuild the work of this Wildlife Trust.
http://www.cheshirewildlifetrust.co.uk
£74,000 over 24 months
Towards the costs of the research director, co-ordinator and energy modelling and economic analysis.
http://www.cat.org.uk
£68,470 over 24 months
To carry out heathland restoration within the fringe of Ipswich involving local community groups and schools in habitat and species recording and investigating the site's cultural history.
http://www.rushmerecommon.com
£2,114 over 12 months
Towards salary of the project officer to improve protection of the inshore cetacean populations and their wider ecosystems around Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk
£58,450 over 36 months
Towards the launch and first year of the major litter champions campaign to promote local practical action to tackle the increasing levels of marine litter.
Towards the salary and costs of the head of communications and policy.
http://www.envision.org.uk
Keywords: Children, Environment, Fostering Communities, Skills Development, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Sustainability
£141,321 over 36 months
Towards developing membership to increase unrestricted core income.
http://www.soilassociation.org
£397,881 over 36 months
Towards core policy work to advance the economics and politics of the environment.
Towards the costs of a definitive list of cultivate plants and methodology for assessing their vulnerability and extinction threat.
http://www.plantheritage.com
£72,229 over 36 months
Towards the development of new conservation ideas and practices.
http://www.landlife.org.uk
£74,888 over 36 months
Towards the salary and overheads of a festival stewarding social business to guarantee funds for their environment and global poverty campaigns.
http://www.peopleandplanet.org
£21,000 over 12 months
Towards the production of two reports on population and environment.
http://www.populationmatters.org
£19,100 over 12 months
Towards the salary of the director of conservation to deliver shark conservation objectives through science, education, influence and action.
http://www.sharktrust.org
£113,648 over 36 months
Towards the salary of a part-time research director.
http://www.aecb.net
£46,454 over 36 months
Towards the salary of an orchard mapping officer and costs of data purchase to map England's traditional orchards and raise public awareness of their importance as a habitat for rare species and as a heritage landscape feature.
Towards research and analysis costs of a study of environmental and distributional effects of fuel duty and vehicle excise duty.
http://www.ifs.org.uk
£74,075 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a research assistant and modifications to a photo identification programme for grey seals.
http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/
£49,023 over 12 months
Towards the cost of a survey of groundwater organisms in Devon and Dorset and subsequent design of sampling protocol for other areas.
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk
£76,088 over 12 months
Towards core costs to deliver better public transport across the UK.
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk
£300,000 over 36 months
Towards project costs, working with disadvantaged local people to transform the natural environment, create sustainable green spaces and enhance the sense of community in deprived estates in London.
http://www.treesforcities.org
Keywords: BME, Environment, Fostering Communities, Public Open Space, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society
Towards the salary of a project manager for the Greenhouse, a sustainable voluntary sector building.
http://www.iied.org
£72,000 over 18 months
Towards the salaries of the biodiversity forester and part time support staff, promoting sustainable management of biodiversity-rich woodlands.
http://www.nhft.org.uk
Keywords: BME, Environment, Fostering Communities, Public Open Space, Skills Development, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Sustainability
£87,733 over 36 months
Towards the salary of the three core biodiversity conservation posts.
http://www.wildlondon.org.uk
£170,928 over 36 months
http://www.coinet.org.uk
Towards the cost of the re-publication of the classic freshwater invertebrate guide and bespoke freshwater fauna on-line data recording module.
http://www.fba.org.uk
£90,000 over 24 months
Towards the salary of a part-time project co-ordinator and a contribution to other core costs.
http://www.bosf.org.uk
£34,342 over 24 months
Towards core staff and overhead costs of the sustainable Bristol region project.
http://www.forumforthefuture.org
£240,000 over 36 months
Towards core costs in protecting the Scottish environment over three years
Towards the salary and travel costs of the co-ordinator for the 'Bird Atlas 2007-11'. An estimated 50,000 volunteers will assess changes in distribution and numbers of the UK's birds.
£180,000 over 60 months
Towards the salary of the director and two projects to benefit UK wildlife conservation.
Keywords: Advocacy, Campaigning, Environment, Human Rights, Social Change, Sustainability
£113,700 over 36 months
Towards core costs and salaries of the creative director and project manager to support its growing platform of innovative projects.
http://www.antiapathy.org
£68,900 over 36 months
Towards the purchase of a revenue participation right in GAP, by investing in the development of new income streams, products and services to support the growth of the organisation.
http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk
Keywords: Environment, Social Investment
Featured grant: Global Action Plan (GAP)
£300,000 over 120 months
Finance Fund
To purchase Industrial and Provident Society Shares in a micro-hydro community energy scheme.
http://www.bwce.coop/
Keywords: Children, Environment, Social Investment
£20,000 over 60 months
Towards the purchase of floodplain meadows.
http://www.bbowt.org
£825,000 over 22 months
Towards Bridges Sustainable Property Fund.
http://www.bridgesventures.com
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Social Investment
£500,000 over 120 months
Towards core staff to enable continuation of the Natural Talent scheme to provide new professional specialists for the conservation of overlooked or less charismatic plants and animals.
http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/btcv_scotland
Keywords: Adults, Education and Learning, Environment, Young Adults
£11,151 over 4 months
Investment in a standby/bridging fund of
http://www.cafonline.org
Keywords: Arts, Education and Learning, Environment, Poverty Relief, Social Change, Social Investment
£750,000 over 60 months
Towards community energy renewable projects in the South West of England.
http://www.regensw.co.uk
Region:
£300,000 over 48 months
Towards a loan guarantee for a project led by housing associations aiming to address energy poverty among tenants by installing rooftop solar panels.
http://www.chcymru.org.uk
£200,000 over 60 months
Towards learning and informing good practice on the management of newly planted woodland for wildlife value at a UK level.
http://www.emr.ac.uk/
£27,500 over 18 months
A long term loan to the society to support sustainable housing
http://www.ecology.co.uk
£750,000 over 12 months
Towards a seed investment into the Community Generation Fund.
http://www.financesoutheast.com
£500,000 over 12 months
A loan to support community owned hydro schemes.
http://www.keyfundyorks.org.uk
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Social Investment, Sustainability
Region: East Midlands
£100,000 over 60 months
Towards core staff posts for the work with wild flowers and innovative practices for meadow creation in urban areas.
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Public Open Space, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Terrestrial
Featured grant: Landlife
£85,506 over 36 months
To purchase Greno Woods.
http://www.wildsheffield.com
£515,000 over 24 months
Towards purchase and short term ownership of Maryland / Overtoun Farm at Dumbarton, Scotland until Woodland Trust are able to purchase.
http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk
£460,000 over 30 months
Towards the post of conservation policy officer.
Keywords: Awareness Raising, Campaigning, Environment, Freshwater, Other, Terrestrial
£92,000 over 36 months
Towards the Garden Wildlife Health project looking to engage people with the wildlife in their garden on a more scientific level and monitor change.
£180,000 over 36 months
Towards core support for a project manager to lead a range of community geology initiatives in the South Wales Coalfield.
http://geoconservation.org
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Terrestrial
Towards the second phase of a campaign to secure affordable, unrestricted access to Scottish courts for environmental cases.
Keywords: Campaigning, Environment, Other, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society
£87,440 over 18 months
Towards the co-ordinator of the Environmental Funders Network.
http://www.greenfunders.org
Towards the salary of the project manager and their work on woodland management and sustainable fuel in Oxfordshire.
http://www.trustforoxfordshire.org.uk
£25,000 over 12 months
Towards the costs of expert consultancy and advocacy for the community renewable sector in order to influence the Energy Bill and Energy Market Reform process.
http://www.uk.coop/
£12,500 over 12 months
An investment in the purchase of Salthouse Marshes, to create a continuous eight kilometre stretch of conservation land between National Trust and Wildlife Trust reserves.
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/norfolk
Keywords: Environment, Other, Public Open Space, Social Investment
£960,000 over 22 months
An investment in the purchase of Birches Farm, conserving rare, unimproved grassland.
http://www.herefordshirewt.org/
Towards a new core post during a time of change.
£30,000 over 18 months
Towards core costs including work with local groups in Islington.
http://www.culpeper.org.uk
Towards core costs to support the organisation to embed sustainability objectives more strongly in Northern Ireland, particularly in relation to recycling and energy efficiency.
Keywords: Awareness Raising, Campaigning, Education and Learning, Environment, Other
Towards the costs of a grassland conservation officer and work to protect, enhance, restore and connect grassland habitats of the Churnet Valley, Staffordshire.
£75,292 over 48 months
Towards work to place bats at the heart of sustainable development through landscape-scale projects and to create a mapping tool to direct conservation action for bats.
http://www.bats.org.uk
Towards a project that will restore and celebrate orchards in the Lower Tees Valley.
http://www.wildflower
Towards new core posts to work on key indicator species and shaping the work of the natural environment conservation sector for the future.
£352,580 over 60 months
Towards bringing a further 400 hectares of land on Anglesey under conservation grazing, in order to enhance biodiversity and raise awareness of the importance of grazing for wildlife.
http://www.grazinganimalsproject.org.uk/pont_home.html
Towards the Open Data Collaboration Initiative, which is designed to collate and make available to the public information likely to lead to better energy policy and cheaper fuel bills for disadvantaged households.
http://www.cse.org.uk
£49,029 over 24 months
Towards continuing and expanding the successful work of the European Environmental Paper Network towards reducing paper consumption among UK businesses and institutions.
http://www.forestpeoples.org
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Terrestrial
£79,914 over 24 months
Towards a programme of enrichment activities for children, attached to Rubbish, a theatre production exploring the value of discarded objects and associated environmental themes.
http://www.theatre-rites.co.uk
Keywords: Arts, Children, Early Years, Environment, Theatre
£29,200 over 10 months
Towards the project costs of Shake! Young Voices in Arts, Media, Race & Power.
http://www.platformlondon.org
Keywords: Arts, Children, Education and Learning, Environment, Social Change
Towards core costs for work reconnecting young people to the land and creating training and opportunities in business, food-growing and preparation.
http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
Keywords: Environment, Other, Social Change, Social Mobility, Supporting Individuals, Terrestrial, Young Adults
Towards work to achieve the ecological restoration of the inshore waters of the Firth of Clyde and economic growth in its associated coastal communities.
http://www.sift-uk.org
Keywords: Advocacy, Environment, Marine, Social Change
Towards enabling accurate national population and distribution surveys of wild bumblebees and the development of policy that promotes the growth of natural pollinator populations.
http://bumblebeeconservation.org/
£135,406 over 36 months
Towards the continuation of a marine advocacy programme for the North Sea which will work towards the establishment of a network of marine protected areas.
£153,000 over 48 months
Towards an independent assessment of Government policy towards energy use with a view to establishing a framework for more holistic policy-making in the future.
£65,075 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a volunteer officer and other related project costs to create a new infrastructure that effectively supports and nurtures local action and advocacy.
Keywords: Environment, Other, Public Open Space, Skills Development
£166,996 over 36 months
Towards the costs of a new education and enterprise co-ordinator to help build organisational capacity and meet demand for People and Planet's education consultancy work.
http://peopleandplanet.org/
Keywords: Children, Environment, Sustainability, Young Adults
Towards the cost of work to halt the negative impacts of UK and European biofuel policy on the environment and food security.
http://www.ieep.eu
£91,918 over 18 months
Towards creative and campaign strategy input to the Nature Project, which aims to increase children's access to, and connection with, nature.
Keywords: Children, Early Years, Environment, Social Change
£60,000 over 18 months
Towards core costs at Mikron Theatre to explore new audiences, support expansion and change within the organisation.
Keywords: Arts, Education and Learning, Environment, Social Change
Towards core costs associated with re-establishment of Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru.
http://www.fwag.org.uk
Towards the salary of the project director to further the organisation's work on involving people in the community who have limited or no access to their own green space in Lambeth in which to grow and produce food and plants.
http://www.brockwellgreenhouses.org.uk
Keywords: Education and Learning, Environment, Social Change, Terrestrial
£53,751 over 36 months
Towards the salary of a new post to enable the organisation to expand and develop its biodiversity training and community-based consultancy service.
http://www.towerhamletscemetery.org
Towards the salary of the chief executive during a time of organisational growth and development.
http://www.british-dragonflies.org.uk
Towards the salary of a development assistant to increase the organisation's presence and appeal, enabling it to become more financially self-sustaining.
http://www.brogdalecollections.co.uk
Keywords: Environment, Social Change, Terrestrial
Towards the salary and project costs involved with developing a moss trail in an urban setting and its associated educational outreach programmes.
http://www.slbi.org.uk
Keywords: Adults, Children, Education and Learning, Environment, Public Open Space, Young Adults
£25,577 over 24 months
An investment in the purchase of 36 hectares of disused gravel pits to extend the adjacent 11 hectare Skylarks nature reserve, adding open water, species-rich wet grassland, hedges and wet woodland.
http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/nottinghamshire
£200,000 over 12 months
Towards development of leadership and talent within the environment sector.
http://www.cloresocialleadership.org.uk
Towards the costs associated with increasing the legacy and impact of a sustainable energy programme.
Keywords: Climate Change, Environment, Fostering Communities, Social Change, Sustainability
£14,000 over 12 months
Towards the salary of a project manager to run an environmental education project linking communities with moorland habitat, promoting understanding and lasting interaction with wildlife and conservation.
http://www.langholm_online.co.uk
Keywords: Children, Early Years, Education and Learning, Environment, Young Adults
Towards the access and biodiversity officer and the work on saving traditional orchards and local heritage building skills as a part of a wider landscape scale project.
http://www.taylp.org
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Fostering Communities, Heritage, Social Change, Terrestrial
Towards the costs of the second phase of the Ashtag project which will engage the public with tracking the spread of Chalara ash tree dieback and the identification of Charala resistant trees.
http://www.ashtag.org
Towards core costs in making the Cemetery available as a green resource in Sharrow and improving the heritage value and community links of the site.
Keywords: Environment, Fostering Communities, Public Open Space, Social Change, Strengthening Civic Society, Terrestrial
Towards a coordinator for UKELA
http://www.ukela.org
£44,250 over 24 months
Towards core costs of Bite-Back's work to see shark and shark related-products removed from UK supermarkets, shops, restaurants and products.
http://www.bite-back.com
Towards the Greener Greenways project to help make Sustrans routes more ecologically sound.
http://www.sustrans.org.uk
£223,188 over 42 months
Towards the salary of the communications manager.
http://www.juliesbicycle.com/
Keywords: Arts, Environment, Music, Theatre