Deadline: 11-Oct-21
Applications are now open for the Live Here Love Here’s Rural Community Pollinator Grants Program to establish, enhance or develop a local community pollinator garden.
They are being promoted through the Live Here Love Here collaborative partnership, involving DAERA, ten Local Councils, Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.
The Rural Community Pollinator Grants will support community groups and schools to:
- Increase the biodiversity value of an area by planting for pollinators.
- Transform unused spaces into valued community spaces, adding habitats and greening-up grey spaces.
- Create a positive legacy within a rural community.
- Improve the health and wellbeing of rural communities and aid biodiversity recovery by helping to improve and/or maintain the quality of community spaces.
- Increase civic pride through a programme of community engagement.
- Improve the quality of their local environment by changing behaviour to reduce the incidence of littering and dog fouling.
Objectives
- Enhance the environmental management and quality of a local area by planting a variety of plants for pollinators.
- Benefiting the wider community and environment.
- Increasing community access to biodiversity rich sites
- Creating a positive legacy within the community.
- Increasing civic pride through a programme of community engagement.
- Improve the health and wellbeing of communities and biodiversity whilst helping to improve and/or maintain community spaces
- Increasing the biodiversity value of an area by re-introducing native species.
Funding Information
- The Rural Community Pollinator Grants Scheme is a pilot Scheme which will provide capital grants from £3,000 to £12,000 covering 95% of costs to community groups and schools wishing to establish, enhance or develop a local community pollinator garden.
Eligibility Criteria
- The project needs to be located in a rural area. For the purposes of this Scheme, rural is defined as all those areas outside the statutory development limits of those towns with a population in excess of 5,000 inhabitants.
- Volunteer, community groups and NGOs
- ‘Friends Of’ groups
- Non-constituted groups
- Schools and third level education organisations
- Youth groups, sports clubs, churches.
- Not for Profit Organisations managing community spaces
- Note that collaborative applications between two or more of the categories are highly encouraged.
- The Rural Community Garden Pollinator Scheme is open to all groups including those which have previously received grants through Live Here Love Here.
For more information, visit https://www.liveherelovehere.org/cgi-bin/generic?instanceID=69