Deadline: 22-Oct-23
Applications are now open for the Our Local Nature Grant scheme to provide young people with an opportunity to take the lead on projects that involve their local nature and natural spaces, to aid young people in realising their influence to affect positive change, to have their voices heard, and see their ideas come to life.
The foundation therefore funds innovative projects that are designed and led by young people in the UK.
Adult applicants should develop their proposal alongside young people and the projects should seek to empower local young people to enact changes they want to see, such as increasing access to natural spaces and improving understanding of their local biodiversity.
This grant is purposefully broad and welcomes novel ideas. Some examples of possible proposals could be: running a school festival about nature; painting community murals showcasing biodiversity in the area; building a community garden; creating a nature walk; hiring a speaker to come and talk about local foraging.
Funding Information
- The maximum award is £1,000 per proposal. They welcome and encourage applications for significantly lower amounts – in the last two years they have funded a wide spread of projects ranging from £150 to £1,000. The Society is happy to co-fund any project with other organisations.
What do they fund?
- They recognise the expertise of young people and those that work closely with them, and so they are keen to hear what activities you think would work best for engaging people with your local nature and natural spaces.
- The grant can be used for materials, room hire, publicity, public-speakers, training-professionals, contractors and freelancers, project-specific staff costs, audio-visual hire, reasonable volunteer expenses, transport or other costs of activities/events.
- The grant cannot be used for large prizes, on-going salary costs, costs that are already covered by other funding, general running costs and overheads that are paid for by other income. More than half of the grant cannot be spent on refreshments or project-specific staff costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- These grants are available to individuals and organisations who are linked with a group of young people within the UK. This includes, but is not limited to, school staff, student groups, home education groups, community groups and small charities. There must be evidence that the applicant is linked with a group of young people. They will not award more than one grant to any one applicant in any one year.
- The application process is designed to be simple to allow young people to apply with adult support.
- Through this they hope to encourage thoughtful applications without too much strain on your valuable time.
For more information, visit The Linnean Society.