Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The South Staffs Water is pleased to announce the PEBBLE Fund to improve, restore or create habitat within their supply area and have a community benefit.
Funding Information
Funding of up to £10,000 is available.
Ineligible Funding
The PEBBLE fund aims to directly help improve biodiversity, so the following items are not eligible for funding:
- Sensory equipment/outdoor classroom equipment
- Garden equipment including furniture and most tools
- Decorations/ornaments
- Pond dipping platforms
- Paths/access
- Research
- Outdoor facilities including hand washing stations or toilet facilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcomed from any group or organization with an environmental or conservation project designed to protect and/or enhance biodiversity. This could be a local river group, environmental charity or organization, community group, charity or association, school or educational group.
- The project must aim to lead to a direct improvement to a habitat or species with the community and/or environment seeing a benefit. Projects that are purely for research will not be funded.
- The project location must be within the water company supply area.
- The applicant organization must own the land or have permission from the land owner for the project.
- Projects cannot be funded retrospectively. The application should be for work that will take place in the future. They appreciate there may be crossover of annual periods due to the nature of projects so funding could be allocated over a number of years.
- The project must meet the company criteria for biodiversity, conservation and community engagement.
- The project must work in partnership and consult with appropriate stakeholders.
- The project must include details of how the improvements or success will be measured, by monitoring and/or reporting.
For more information, visit South Staffs Water.
For more information, visit https://www.south-staffs-water.co.uk/environment/biodiversity/pebble-fund