Deadline: 1-Dec-25
The Cornwall Community Foundation invites applications for the Marine Environment Fund focused on stimulating widespread community education and engagement in marine environmental action and research across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The Marine Environment Fund will support existing projects and new ideas, encouraging innovative initiatives that engage with the community.
Themes
- Projects are expected to address one of the following themes:
- Community Action: Projects centred on instigating, continuing or expanding community involvement in mitigating the impact of pollution or climate change on the coast.
- Improving infrastructure: Projects centred on providing the means through which locals and visitors can better care for the marine environment.
- Innovation: Projects which create new and innovative ways to solve the problems of littering, pollution and climate change in Cornwall.
Funding Information
- Grant value: £1,000 – £5,000
What it won’t support?
- Projects or activities outside Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Commercial profit making organisations
- Organisations with significant free reserves
- Statutory/public sector organisations such as health authorities, schools, hospitals, parish and town councils
- Contributions to an endowment, payment of deficit funding or repayment of loans
- Grant making organisations or bodies who fundraise or distribute grants on behalf of other organisaons
- Activities or projects which have already happened
- Regional offices of national bodies that do not benefit local people
- Organisations whose beneficiaries are not people
- Organisations or projects intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system
- The promotion of political causes.
Who can apply?
- Charities, CICs and community and voluntary groups working in Cornwall or The Isles of Scilly.
For more information, visit Cornwall Community Foundation.