Grants made in 2001

Environment

Grants approved over £10,000

A Rocha Trust - £90,000
Towards the salary over three years of an Environmental Education Officer to raise environmental awareness in Southall and Hayes, particularly through working with children and young people.

Acorn Venture Urban Farm - £30,000
Towards the salary costs of an Environmental Education and Youth Worker at an educational and leisure facility which offers people from an inner city area the opportunity to get involved with farming at a practical level.

Bankside Open Spaces Trust - £83,500
Towards the salary costs of the Community Gardener to support and encourage local residents to engage in multi-cultural community gardening and upgrade open space throughout Bankside in London.

Barn Owl Trust - £12,000
Towards the salary of the Assistant Conservation Officer at the Trust which protects the barn owl and its environment through practical conservation work, research and education.

BioRegional Development Group - £222,683
Towards the salary costs over three years of the Director, Deputy Director and Development Manager to expand and consolidate BioRegional's environmental projects and bring the organisation to financial sustainability.

Botanic Centre Middlesbrough - £72,300
Towards the costs of the Wildflower Ark project which maintains plant databases and develops activities for schools and the local community in order to maintain plant diversity on Teesside.

British Butterfly Conservation Society - £25,000
Towards continued funding of the salary of the Butterflies for the New Millennium Project Officer to support the data recording project.

Campbeltown Waste Watchers - £21,500
Towards staff and operating costs for extending the community-based recycling scheme into less well served areas of Campbeltown.

Central Scotland Countryside Trust - £45,000
Towards the costs over three years of the community action plan to manage and sustain two new community nature parks in south Glasgow.

Community Recycling Network - £52,940
Towards salaries for core staff to provide the community waste sector with on-going co-ordination and representation, particularly to maximise take-up of new funding opportunities.

Countryside Education Trust - £46,995
Towards the salary over three years of a Garden Manager/Educator and plant stock for a garden at a countryside activity and education centre in Beaulieu in the New Forest.

CREATE Bradford - £25,000
Towards the costs of setting-up this project which trains people who are long-term unemployed to recondition donated white goods and furniture.

Earthworks Trust - £84,000
Towards the salary costs of the Projects Manager, Centre Manager and Administrative Officer to offer residential courses, seminars and a showcase for alternative technology.

Environ Trust - £99,600
Towards core costs for 'From Farm to Table', which aims to make produce from Leicestershire farming and food businesses more widely available to local consumers.

Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group - £349,507
Towards set-up and running costs over three years to provide a farmer-based farm conservation advisory service in Wales.

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £100,000
Towards emergency financial support for city farms suffering financial hardship from the effects of the Foot and Mouth crisis.

Forest of Cardiff - £90,000
Towards the core costs of working in partnership with community groups in South Wales to develop practical environmental projects to benefit urban wildlife, landscape and quality of life.

Forest Stewardship Council - £166,091
Towards the core costs of promoting responsible management of the UK's woodlands.

Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development - £180,000
Towards the core costs of protecting the UK and global environment by developing and applying international law.

Gloucestershire Resource Centre - £15,000
Towards the core costs of 'City Works' which re-uses business waste through creative activities for all ages and abilities.

Green Light Trust - £19,200
Towards the salary of a part-time Funding Manager to expand the donor base in order to help more communities plant and maintain their own woodland.

Hedgerow Trust - £21,954
Towards the costs of restoring the towpath hedgerows of the Hatherton Canal in Staffordshire to improve habitats and increase wildlife.

Herpetological Conservation Trust - £81,000
Towards the core costs of the data management, science and monitoring project to improve the recording and management of data relating to the rarer species of reptile and amphibian.

In Kind Direct - £150,000
Towards the core costs of the Retail Donations Initiative providing small voluntary organisations with a greater range and quantity of supplies than they could otherwise afford.

International Institute for Environment & Development - £150,000
Towards the costs of 'Race to the Top' which uses supermarket competition to achieve a fairer and greener food system by benchmarking good practice and supermarket performance in relation to sustainable development.

Keep Wales Tidy - £25,000
Towards the core costs of working with local communities on the improvement of the coastal environment in Wales.

Lancashire Development Education Group - £51,510
Towards the costs of the sustainable community development team which is working with local communities to raise local environmental awareness.

Lochaber Environmental Group - £38,960
Towards the salary of Compost Officer and associated project costs to establish a permanent culture of composting throughout the community in Lochaber.

London Cycling Campaign - £99,365
Towards the salary costs over three years of a Finance and Administration manager to increase the effectiveness of the organisation to meet the needs of a growing membership.

Lower Ure Conservation Trust - £15,000
Towards the costs of producing resources to develop the educational potential of the Swale and Ure Washlands project.

Marine Stewardship Council - £196,704
Towards the costs of a project to increase consumer access to MSC certified seafood produce by distributing it to markets in the UK and Europe.

Mourne Heritage Trust - £30,000
Towards the salary of the Ranger Service to contribute to the conservation and recreation programmes promoting opportunities for increased enjoyment of the countryside in County Down, Northern Ireland.

National Biodiversity Network Trust - £85,300
Towards the salary of a Technical Liaison Officer to provide advice and support to voluntary sector organisations wishing to make their biodiversity data widely accessible through the internet.

Northern Shropshire Countryside Project - £11,000
Towards the costs of the Oswestry Neighbourhood Trees Project to restore and enhance the landscape by working with the local community on tree planting schemes.

OpenDemocracy - £40,000
Towards the costs of a pilot on-line policy influencing discussion forum initially centred on rural affairs.

Paths For All Partnership - £30,000
Towards the costs of preparing a feasibility study for a 76-mile circular path to link every town, village and city around the Forth Estuary.

Penistone Line Partnership - £88,000
Towards the salary costs of the Development Worker to extend the involvement of communties in the development of the Pensitone-Huddersfield railway.

Plantlife - £289,000
Towards the core costs of the campaigns programme for 2001-2003 to help reverse the decline of wild plants.

PLATFORM - £26,410
Towards the costs of establishing a fundraising and strategic developmental partnership between three small environmental organisations.

Reading Reclaim - £60,291
Towards the salary and core costs over two years of the Operations Manager to develop a sustainable community-centred enterprise based on reclaimed wood to provide work and opportunities for disadvantaged people.

Scottish Environment LINK - £75,000
Towards core costs of this organisation which brings together the majority of Scottish voluntary environmental organisations.

Sensory Trust - £60,900
Towards core costs for 'Accessible & Inclusive Open Space' which is an evaluation tool to improve the design and management of open spaces for people who are excluded through disability, health or age.

Southampton Environment Centre - £30,000
Towards core costs over three years for the Shannon project which initiates and supports grass roots urban environmental projects.

Southern Isles Amenity Trust - £14,000
Towards the core costs of the Countryside Ranger Service which cares for the countryside and promotes awareness and understanding of the natural environment.

St John the Baptist Church, Hoxton - £45,000
Towards the costs of transforming an under-used churchyard in Hoxton, London into a community garden.

Sustain - £100,000
Towards salary and other core costs of the 'Better Food and Farming Programme' which increases the amount of local food purchased by the public sector, particularly schools and hospitals.

Sustainable Communities Network Scotland - £20,500
Towards the costs of developing low impact ecocommunities by designing a model for exemplary 'live/work' eco-communities which could be replicated elsewhere.

Tiree Rural Development - £50,000
Towards the cost of building a new rural centre from which to manage a partnership of traditional crofting and environmental conservation to protect and enhance a way of life specific to remote island crofting communities.

Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust - £45,000
Towards the salary costs of the Wildlife Interpretation Ranger to promote interest in species which live out a precarious existence.

Trees for Life - £23,039
Towards the cost of 32 volunteer work weeks in 2001 and 2002 to help restore native forest to a 600 square mile area of the north west Highlands.

Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru - £30,000
Towards core costs of increased staffing in order to expand its work helping communities address local environmental and social issues beyond north east Wales.

University of Cardiff - £49,900
Towards the salary costs over three years of a field officer to restore the native crayfish habitat in mid-Wales and to facilitate re-population.

Waterways Trust - £145,000
Towards the salary of a volunteer Co-ordinator to deliver a voluteering scheme to encourage involvement of trained volunteers in waterway management and operation.

West Dorset Food and Land Trust - £18,000
Towards the the salary costs of a project manager to develop the Centre for Local Food which aims to house projects such as a community composting project and café selling locally produced food.

Wildlife Trust, Brecknock - £15,000
Towards the costs of improving the ecological management of eleven nature reserves and increasing the access to them and use by the general public.

Wildlife Trust, Gwent - £45,000
Towards the cost of improving the management of wildlife reserves including setting-up monitoring schemes and providing facilities for volunteers.

Wildlife Trust, Radnorshire - £45,000
Towards the cost of 'Protecting Welsh Wildlife for the Future', a five year programme of conservation work in Radnorshire.

Wirral Local Agenda 21 Forum - £26,000
Towards the salary over two years costs of a Development Worker to involve a wide cross-section of Wirral's population in enhancing the local quality of life in a sustainable way.

Women's Environmental Network Trust - £89,230
Towards the core costs of a two year research and information project on environmental issues relevant to women, to enable women and men to make informed consumer choices for sustainable living; the initial focus will be sanitary protection.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Berryhill Fields Centre Trust - £4,700
Brecknock Farmers Market - £5,000
British Naturalists' Association - £3,800
Caring for God's Acre - £9,000
Community Regeneration & Outreach Projects - £10,000
Community Scrap Scheme - £6,000
Cyclists' Touring Club - £10,000
Derby Rainbow - £10,000
Flying Egg Events - £9,905
Friends of Whitehawk Hill - £2,974
Institute of Agricultural Management - £5,000
Kilcooley Community Forum - £1,150
Lion Salt Works Trust - £10,000
Moor Trees - £9,977
Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project - £9,777
Murray Downland Trust - £870
Newcastle University - £7,266
Norfolk Wildlife Trust - £10,000
Perthshire Machinery Ring - £1,380
Princetown Neighbourhood Watch - £8,000
Radio Merseyside Charitable Trust - £1,000
Scottish Seabird Centre - £8,500
Stallcombe House - £8,000
Sustainability Action - £3,882
Sustainable Lifestyles Research Co-op - £10,000
Vinters Valley Park Trust - £10,000
West Coast Furniture Recycling - £4,351
Wey & Arun Canal Trust - £10,000
Wildlife Trust Avon - £4,800
Wildlife Trust for Cambs, Northants & Peterborough - £3,672
Yorkshire Coast Community-Rail Partnership - £10,000

		Environment Total value for Programme:	£4,495,383
		Total number for Programme:	92

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