Deadline: 28-Oct-22
The Heritage Fund is offering funding through its Local Places for Nature – Breaking Barriers fund to break down barriers that excluded and disadvantaged communities face when accessing nature.
Aims
The fund aims to increase the engagement these communities have with the Local Places for Nature programme – a Welsh Government fund programme committed to creating, restoring and enhancing nature ‘on your doorstep.
Funded organisations and communities will work together to:
- co-produce the future Local Places for Nature programme – co-creating ideas, plans and projects which create a ‘local place for nature’
- increase engagement these communities have with nature in their local area
It is hoped that this funding will pay for a network of facilitators or co-ordinators to help achieve this.
The Heritage Fund is distributing Local Places for Nature ‒ Breaking Barriers on behalf of the Welsh Government.
Priorities
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This funding is primarily for:
- Organisations working with diverse ethnic communities, refugees, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community groups
- Organisations working with communities in the 30% most deprived areas of Wales
- Previous recipients of Local Places for Nature grants, to help them move on to the next step of developing places for nature in their community.
- If your proposal falls within the 70% of least deprived areas you may still be able to apply for funding, particularly if your project will increase the involvement of a wider range of people in natural heritage and/or those affected by the project have a specific need.
- Nature is our oldest form of heritage. Looking after nature and helping people to understand and value its importance has never been more relevant.
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The need to aid nature’s recovery is urgent. Also knowing that the impact of COVID-19 has reinforced disparity of access, with significantly fewer applications to the existing nature funds coming from:
- disadvantaged groups
- urban areas with high levels of deprivation
- areas not served by a Town or Community Council
- That’s why removing barriers to participation is a strategic funding priority for both Welsh Government and the Heritage Fund.
Funding Information
- This is a revenue only grant scheme. The fund is offering grants of £30,000–£100,000 for revenue costs.
- Total available funding is £400,000.
Outcomes
Your project should achieve the mandatory outcome ‘a wider range of people will be involved in heritage’ and at least one other outcome:
- A wider range of people will be involved in heritage. Please note for these grants the fund means ‘involved in our landscapes and nature’. You should tell, how you will work with diverse ethnic communities, refugees, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community groups and/or excluded and disadvantaged communities in areas of deprivation, who currently do not access Local Places for Nature funding to identify barriers and co create solutions .
- Heritage (Nature/Landscape) will be identified and better explained .
- People will have learnt about heritage (landscape and nature), leading to change in ideas and action .
- Heritage will be in better condition. Please note that the fund does not expect to see direct improvement within the project timeframe but funded projects should enable this outcome to be achieved in the future.
Eligibility Criteria
- A community based, not-for-profit organisation in Wales.
- Organisation is already engage with the most disadvantaged and marginalised groups in Wales, particularly in urban areas of deprivation with little or no access to nature OR a community of interest marginalised from nature.
- Have established and trusted working relationships which could be developed to engage those groups with nature projects.
- Organisation reflects the community they work with.
- Organisation that requires a grant of between £30,000 and £100,000.
- Project should befinished by February 2024.
For more information, visit Heritage Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/breaking-barriers
