Deadline: 01-May-24
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is offering grants for community organisations to improve nature where they live.
Grants are awarded for capital expenditure only, where this directly increases nature in local green spaces.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £5,000.
Eligible Projects
- The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Fund for Nature seeks to fund projects that support community-led nature recovery in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough that will do one or more of the following:
- Increase biodiversity and key wildlife habitats.
- Increase community cohesion by helping local people to understand, appreciate and enjoy their natural spaces more.
- Promote public health and wellbeing.
- Create resilient countryside and communities, where nature is at the heart of the approach to addressing climate change.
- Champion examples of best practice for sustainable development and management of green open space.
- To be considered for funding, your project must show how it will support nature recovery in your community, including how it will help towards the development of a Local Nature Recovery Plan for your village, town or ward.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered, exempt, and excepted charities
- Religious organisations if the project benefits the wider community and doesn’t include religious content.
- Parish and town councils, village halls, and parochial church councils
- Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) and community interest companies (CICs)
- Social enterprises which have the Social Enterprise Mark
- Co-operatives and community benefit societies (formerly industrial and provident societies)
- Schools
- Sports clubs that are either Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs), affiliated with a national governing body, such as Badminton England, or have an income under £5,000.
- Community-focused, non-profit organisations such as Friends of, Street Pride or Community Orchards, as long as the annual income does not exceed £5,000.
For more information, visit Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.
