Funding Opportunities

The Urban Forestry Challenge Fund provides grants of up to £100,000 for projects that support the 3-30-300 rule:

• 3: Everyone should be able to see at least three trees from home, school or work
• 30: Every neighbourhood should have at least 30% tree canopy cover
• 300: Everyone should live within 300 metres of quality greenspace

The Trust awards grants of between £2000 an £50,000 to charities registered in the UK. The majority are for 1 year. However, multi-year funding (up to 3 years) is considered but this tends to be reserved for charities that have been supported in previous years. 

This funding is for projects that will help people connect more with each other. For the Community Action funding programme, The National Lottery Community Fund define communities as people who share an identity, interest or experience. They also include people living in the same place. They will support projects that are open, inclusive and led by their community.

Greener Spaces, Fairer Places’ - grants up to £500 are available for local faith groups or related organisations working primarily in a small, specific geographic communities to tackle poverty and climate change.

The Craighnish Trust focuses on environmental and human rights issues as well as the particular special interests of the trustees. Previous awards have included grants to organisations working in conservation, refugees, youth, and music. The fund has a Scottish bias but is not exclusive to Scotland.

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, charitable grant-making foundation, which supports a wide range of causes across the UK.

The Esmee Fairburn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. They also offer social investment.

As well as making direct investments into organisations seeking to create impact towards their aims, the foundation also invests into impact funds, which are managed by other social investors. They offer loans (secured and unsecured), equity, fund investments and everything else.

Expressions of Interest can be submitted at any time.

Members of the Climate Hub can apply for up to £1000 to either kickstart a climate action project in their community or carry out community engagement around climate change.