Deadline: 11-Sep-2024
The Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape is inviting applications for the Community and Conservation Fund. Whether you have a project that works in heritage, media, conservation, learning, health, accessibility, and diversity, to give but a few examples, they welcome your applications!
It primarily grows from the partnership with local businesses and others who raise money on the behalf to support grass roots conservation, access and education projects in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape.
It is also into this fund that all the other donations find their way from individuals or organisations. The geographical area for this fund is the whole of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape.
The Community and Conservation Fund wishes to attract applications from the widest range of society possible and supports equality of opportunities to access this fund.
Funding Information
- The Community and Conservation Fund is the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape small grants scheme, and grants are typically awarded in the region of £500-£700.
What kinds of schemes are eligible?
- Community and Conservation Fund grants can be used for a range of purposes including:
- Enhancement schemes
- Practical conservation work
- Public access and infrastructure improvements
- Equipment purchases
- Information and interpretive material
- Grants are available for both revenue and capital projects and can be used as part funding for larger projects, though evidence of funding is required in such cases.
Criteria
- Applications to the Community & Conservation Fund are assessed on how well they fulfil the three requirements of National Landscape designation and the aims of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape Management Strategy, as follows:
- Applications should seek to address one or more of the following:
- To conserve and enhance natural beauty and maintain the special qualities of the landscape
- Conserve landscape character and enhance the distinctive nature of the National Landscape
- Conserve biodiversity and lessen fragmentation of habitats
- Conserve the historic resources of the area including landscapes, archaeology and the built environment
- Retain the tranquillity of the area
- Conserve the geodiversity of the area
- To manage the assets and resources of the National Landscape in a sustainable way and seek to meet environmental, economic and social needs
- Suffolk tourism brand and the tourism industry based on sustainable practices
- To meet the demand for recreation where this is consistent with the conservation of natural beauty and the management of the land and to help people enjoy, understand and value the National Landscape
- Have access and recreation provision that respects biodiversity, landscape, geodiversity and historic assets
- Provide interpretation that improves understanding, guides behaviour and helps people enjoy the National Landscape
- Support community involvement in the active conservation and enhancement of the National Landscape
- To conserve and enhance natural beauty and maintain the special qualities of the landscape
- Applications should seek to address one or more of the following:
For more information, visit Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape.