Deadline: 17-Oct-22
The Crown Estate Scotland’s Sustainable Communities Fund is excited to launch the Environment Grants Programme.
The fund is a three year programme and has been created to support local regeneration and sustainable development.
The objective of the Environment Grants Programme is to provide funding to Crown Estate Scotland tenants for environmental projects delivering lasting and demonstrable benefits across Scotland.
Funding Information
- A total of £100,000 will be available each year for Environment Grants with grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 for individual projects.
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Typical projects could include:
- Providing natural climate solutions e.g. riparian planting or initiatives to increase local biodiversity;
- Environmental education materials e.g. display boards about the local environment; and
- Facilitating a change to greener ways of operating e.g. measures to support recycling or waste reduction;
- Enabling green travel; activities that reduce flood risk, pollution or carbon emissions; and projects that enable a
- Circular economy approach.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be existing Crown Estate Scotland tenants.
- Projects must demonstrate they will result in lasting environmental benefits.
- Where possible, projects should be wholly located within your existing tenanted area. However, they recognise that this may not always be possible or this approach could limit the benefits that can be realised through a project. In these scenarios, projects can be located solely on land adjacent to your tenanted area or on a combination of adjacent land and your tenanted area.
- Given the nature of our wild fisheries agreements, there is no spatial criteria for applications from wild fisheries tenants but you must demonstrate that the proposed project and the associated benefits are related to your rights.
- Where a project is proposed on a separate landholding, evidence of the landowner’s permission to undertake the works should be provided. If another landowner is involved, partnership working including leverage of joint funding is encouraged.
- Where relevant, applications should provide details of any engagement with other organisations e.g. Nature Scot, SEPA, local community groups.
- Projects must be completed within 18 months of receipt of funding.
For more information, visit Crown Estate Scotland.
For more information, visit https://www.crownestatescotland.com/our-projects/sustainable-communities-fund#environment-grants
