Grants made in 2003

Environment

Grants approved over £10,000

AccountAbility - £75,000
Towards the costs over two years of promoting the development and take up of better corporate sustainability standards.

Borders Forest Trust - £66,000
Towards the costs over three years of establishing a network of new native woodlands and associated habitats and developing a community based sustainable timber utilisation project.

British Butterfly Conservation Society Ltd - £200,000
Towards the core costs over three years of implementing regional action plans and supporting an active volunteer network.

Bryson House - £20,000
Towards the salary costs of the Recycling Development Manager and the Community Promotions Officer.

Carbon Disclosure Project - £51,955
Towards the costs of a project to elicit information on company emissions of gasses that contribute to global warming.

Caring for God's Acre - £30,000
Towards the costs over three years of the 'Rural Heritage Project', which works on churchyard conservation.

Carplus The Car Club Network - £60,000
Towards the salaries over two years of three project officers and seed funding for communities setting up car clubs in rural and urban areas.

Community Can Cycle - £33,376
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Can Collection Officer.

Community Composting Network - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of furthering the organisation's development.

Community Recycling Network - £120,000
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of core staff to help realise wealth from the waste stream for the benefit of communities.

Council for National Parks - £116,409
Towards the salary and costs over three years of an officer to work on and inform the public inquiry into the proposed South Downs National Park.

Culpeper Community Garden Association - £18,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Garden Worker and running costs for a community orientated open space in inner London.

Durham Wildlife Trust - £42,582
Towards the costs over two years of a Marketing and Development Officer.

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £240,000
Towards the costs over three years of core regional and support staff to extend work in the regions.

Friends of the Earth International - £70,000
Towards the salaries and costs of the 'Climate Justice: Enforcing Climate Law' programme.

Friends of the Earth Trust Ltd - £72,296
Towards costs over two years to support the 'Transport for All' initiative.

Global Canopy Foundation - £23,760
Towards the costs of establishing a canopy access facility in the UK, including a feasibility study and a fundraising and implementation phase.

Growing Communities - £28,000
Towards the costs over two years of 'Growing Connections', a project set up to establish a farmers market, volunteer task force and on-farm placements feasibility study.

Institute for European Environmental Policy - £135,000
Towards the continuation costs over two years of the Sustainable Fisheries Programme.

International Institute for Environment & Development - £59,160
Towards the continuation costs of the 'Race to the Top' supermarket performance league table.

Kent Wildlife Trust -£50,000
Towards the purchase of 620 hectares (1,532 acres) of Blean Woods, a semi natural ancient woodland between Canterbury and Herne Bay.

Living Streets - £140,000
Towards core costs over two years to enable the organisation to develop organisational capacity and become more self-sufficient.

Moor Trees - £44,000
Towards the salaries over two years of two part-time co-ordinators to plan and implement planting schemes and run tree nurseries, and to attract and organise volunteers.

Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project - £44,261
Towards the salaries over two years of a part-time Development Worker and part-time Events Co-ordinator.

National Council for the Conservation of Plants & Gardens - £60,000
Towards the salary over three years of an Administrator.

Pesticide Action Network UK - £67,566
Towards the costs over two years of a programme to minimise the environmental impact of pesticides.

Rewind Recycling Services Limited - £20,000
Towards staff costs of a project to promote recycling of waste in city parks and gardens.

Royal Highland Education Trust - £40,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Manager.

St Abbs & Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Marine Reserve Ranger.

The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust - £45,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Membership Development Officer and other revenue raising initiatives.

The Murray Downland Trust - £27,000
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Warden to manage five chalk downland nature reserves.

The Ponds Conservation Trust - £138,060
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a new Director and the setting up costs of this small development charity.

The Southern Uplands Partnership - £42,000
Towards core costs over three years to enable the partnership to employ a second staff member and increase its work to promote sustainable land use projects in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

The United Kingdom Noise Association - £45,000
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of a Co-ordinator and Administrative Assistant to engage in high-profile lobbying, act as advocates for noise sufferers and establish a network of local groups.

The Woodland Trust - £160,000
Towards the costs over two years of a major new programme to plant twelve million trees, one for each child in the UK.

Treesponsibility - £15,000
Towards the salary and costs of a project to plant new woodland to improve flood control, reduce erosion and raise awareness of sustainability and climate change.

Unity Garden - £34,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Co-ordinator to turn degraded land in central Hereford into a community garden and local food project.

University of Newcastle - £92,409
Towards the salary over three years of a Project Co-ordinator, and running costs, for a programme of ecological research that will engage local communities in marine stewardship.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Berryhill Fields Centre Trust Limited - £4,026
Caol in Bloom - £5,591
Soho Green - £9,425
The Institute of Agricultural Management - £5,500

		Environment Total value for Programme	£2,660,376
		Total number for Programme	42

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