The Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund seeks to inspire, encourage, and enable communities to explore and deliver ambitious ecosystem restoration projects locally. It also seeks to raise awareness about the importance of local ecosystem restoration and address barriers faced by community-led efforts.
Key Criteria
Not-for-profit commuity-led organisations with income of less than £200,000, can apply for funding of up to £13,500 for their project. Successful applicatants will also receive up to £1,500 of professional fundraising time to help apply for funding to take the project to the next stage.
Projects must focus on one (or more) parts of ecosystem restoration. These are:
- Connecting nature corridors
- Habitat and species restoration
- Freshwater and wetland restoration
- Coastal and marine initiatives
- Control of invasive non-native species impacting on nature
- Enhancing and connecting nature within villages, towns, or cities
Apply any time through their two-stage application process.
