Deadline: 1-Aug-22
The Yorkshire Dales National Park’s Swinden Quarry Natural Environment Fund is now open for applications.
The aim of the Natural Environment Fund is to improve biodiversity and quality of the natural environment within the locality of Swinden Quarry or which compensate for the actual or potential environmental impacts of the quarrying, with particular emphasis on the natural beauty of the landscape, tranquillity and air quality and riverine environment within the locality.
Funding Information
In any one financial year the Natural Environment Fund will seek to award grants to a total value of approximately £30,000. Typically, the spilt will be ten ‘Small Grants’ of up to £2k each and one to two ‘Medium Grants’ to a total of about £10k. ‘Large Grants’ of over £10k can be awarded in exceptional circumstances where very significant environmental or community benefits can be demonstrated.
What can be funded?
- Habitat management, creation or restoration
- Protecting features of landscape and wildlife value
- Community-led environmental initiatives
The following is a list of items that can be funded. The list is not exhaustive and it is at the discretion of the Fund as to whether any items on the list can be funded in particular circumstances:
- Tools for community groups/projects;
- Materials (e.g. fence posts)
- Plants and/or seed (but only of regional or local origin)
- Contractors
- Management plans and specialist surveys
- Survey equipment (e.g. ID books, nets, hand lenses, etc.)
- Items to enable community groups to satisfy health and safety requirements (e.g. training, first aid equipment, safety items, protective clothing.)
What can not be funded?
- Applications relating to places outside the Fund area, unless a clear benefit for the locality can be demonstrated
- The cost of preparing or submitting applications for statutory consents
- Repeat applications where a project is substantially the same as one previously funded
- Projects where part-funding is to be obtained from other YDNPA sources (e.g. Sustainable Development Fund or Parish Wildlife Project) or from Tarmac
- Retrospective applications or items where costs have already been incurred
Eligibility Criteria
A discretionary grant fund is available from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority for environmental projects that benefit the parishes of :
- Burnsall
- Conistone with Kilnsey
- Cracoe
- Embsay with Eastby
- Flasby with Winterburn
- Grassington
- Hebden
- Hetton Cum Bordley
- Linton
- Rylstone
- Stirton with Thorlby
- Thorpe
- Threshfield
For more information, visit https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/park-authority/living-and-working/wildlife-conservation/swinden-quarry-natural-environment-fund/