Grants made in 2004

Environment

Grants approved over £10,000

Abney Park Cemetery Trust - £35,000
Towards the salary of an Environmental Education Officer, and resources, publicity and promotion.

Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, The - £51,583
Towards the costs of funding an additional award for a local sustainable energy project.

Aspire Community Enterprise (Sheffield) Ltd - £35,200
Towards the costs of expanding the product range of the door-to-door distribution enterprise to include organic food.

BEAT - £96,230
Towards the salaries and costs of a project to improve community life in Bradford by revitalising urban and rural open spaces.

BioRegional Minimills (UK) Ltd - £97,650
Towards the costs of establishing an 'eco-friendly' non-wood mini paper pulp mill.

Brecon Beacons National Park Authority - £25,135
Towards the costs over three years of promoting local biodiversity activities and assisting local people to use natural resources.

British Dragonfly Society - £36,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of the Conservation Officer.

Buried Treasure Ltd - £33,600
Towards the salary of a Project Leader to set up a community garden centre.

Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales - £50,000
Towards the costs of a project to reconnect local landscapes to local communities in Wales.

Campaign to Protect Rural England - £45,000
Towards the costs of highlighting the pressures facing the greenbelt.

Campbeltown Waste Watchers Ltd - £20,000
Towards the salary costs of developing opportunities for those with special needs to increase recycling and re-use by handling local waste locally.

Carbon Disclosure Project - £80,000
Towards core costs to create a dialogue between institutional
investors and corporations on climate change.

Carntogher Community Association - £45,296
Towards core costs over three years.

Carplus The Car Club Network - £18,605
Towards the costs of this project to stimulate growth in rural and urban car clubs.

Climate Change Organisation, The - £90,000
Towards the core costs of this project to avert climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions at corporate and governmental level.

Community Woodlands Association - £30,000
Towards the salary and costs of an Officer to develop services, support and representation for community woodland groups in Scotland.

Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Project - £20,000
Towards the costs of extending the Coast Network, establishing the Good Practice Programme and developing the accrediation, training, community engagements and research programme.

Countryside Services Team - £60,000
Towards the costs over five years of supporting a programme of biodiversity work in Cambridgeshire.

Creative Environmental Networks - £88,100
Towards the salary over two years of a Co-ordinator to facilitate 12 community renewable energy installations, enabling schools and communities to access renewable energy.

Cromarty Trust, The - £20,000
Towards the costs of purchasing woodland to conserve one of Kent's prime woodland sites.

Culac Community Woodland Trust Ltd - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Warden for a recreational and educational facility.

Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency - £129,670
Towards the salary and costs over three years of an Organic Network Co-ordinator, and Network Mentors' costs, to improve the sustainability of organic food businesses in Cumbria.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust - £88,000
Towards the salary over three years of a Reserves Officer to manage the network of reserves in northern Cumbria.

Cutsyke Community Group - £20,000
Towards the costs of improving amenities on a derelict allotment site in West Yorkshire.

Debenham Parish Council - £17,000
Towards the costs of excavating and planting a lake for local residents.

Detling Parish Council - £20,000
Towards the costs of purchasing and maintaining Horish Wood in Chatham, Kent.

Dynamic Demand Ltd - £79,430
Towards the costs of a 'technical fix' to facilitate the viability of renewable electricity generation.

East Anglia Food Link Ltd - £144,818
Towards salaries and costs over three years to convert schools and hospitals to sustainable food.

Ecoworks (Nottingham) Ltd - £17,537
Towards the salary costs of a project to increase the amount of fresh, organic and affordable food that is grown and sold locally.

Essex Estuaries Initiative - £20,000
Towards the costs of events to raise the profile of, and introduce people to, Essex Seafood.

Fairshare - £107,793
Towards core costs over two years to increase the size of the UK's socially responsible investment sector.

Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group - £117,254
Towards the costs of farm conservation work in Wales.

Food Link Skye & Lochalsh Ltd - £14,375
Towards the salary of a Co-ordinator to develop the marketing and promotion of locally produced foods.

Forum for the Future - £70,000
Towards the core costs of the Regional Futures Network, to enable sustainable development practitioners in the English regions to connect with each other. One grant of £50,000 and one of £20,000.

Friends of Kennington Park, The - £37,000
Towards the salary of a part-time Community Worker/Fundraiser to lead the regeneration of the park.

Friends of the Earth International - £140,000
Towards the costs over two years of the 'Climate Justice: Enforcing Climate Law' programme.

Gazen Salts Nature Reserve - £16,000
Towards costs over two years to conserve the habitats of indigenous wildlife species and provide an open public space for the local community.

Gloucestershire Food Links - £20,000
Towards core costs of promoting an understanding of, and greater access to, local food.

Green City Action - £54,000
Towards the costs of developing a team to organise and deliver a project to improve Burngreave and Firth Park in Sheffield by engaging the local community.

GreenSpace Forum Ltd - £60,000
Towards core costs to support the improvement and regeneration of all public greenspace locally, regionally and nationally.

Healthy Cross Community Project - £66,683
Towards the salary and costs of two part-time workers to recruit and support local people in food growing in Sheffield.

Institute for Public Policy Research - £70,000
Towards the costs of establishing an International Taskforce on Climate Change.

International Institute for Environment & Development - £39,895
Towards the costs of running two one-day workshops with key opinion formers and associated research on corporate and social responsibility.

Localise West Midlands - £20,000
Towards core costs to help communities in the West Midlands to rediversify and localise the region's economy.

Lochaber Environmental Group - £51,733
Towards the costs of developing a network of community composting sites in rural villages.

London Wildlife Trust - £85,000
Towards the salary costs of this organisation, which aims to persuade the corporate sector in London to conduct their businesses in an environmentally sustainable way.

Longside Community Park Project - £14,625
Towards the costs of clearing an existing site and creating an
environmentally landscaped recreation area.

Marine Stewardship Council - £600,000
Towards staff salaries to develop and improve the MSC's capacity and increase the market penetration of sustainably caught fish.

Moorthorpe Community Partnership - £20,000
Towards the costs of redesigning a public space in Pontefract to make it accessible, useable and attractive.

North East Community Forests Development Company Ltd - £20,000
Towards the costs of assembling 71 hectares of land to provide integrated environmental, social and economic benefits on the edge of Teesside.

North Highland Forest Trust - £10,214
Towards salary costs to promote community forestry and sustainable development.

North West Cattle Producer's Association - £17,035
Towards the salary over three years of a part-time Cudiche (helper) to halt and reverse the decline in cattle numbers in North West Scotland by supporting new and existing producers.

ORCA (Organisation Cetecea) - £15,000
Towards the salary of a part-time Director to increase whale and dolphin research through public involvement.

Plantlife International - £100,000
Towards the salary and costs over three years of the Director of UK Operations to improve the status of the UK's most endangered wild plants.

Renue - £46,800
Towards the salary costs of a project to contribute to a more sustainable future.

Resource Publishing - £20,000
Towards the salary and costs of a part-time Finance Manager.

Royal Holloway, University of London - £25,000
Towards the costs over three years of conducting the first survey of plant and animal diversity living on green roofs in the UK.

Rural Regeneration Company Ltd, The - £80,000
Towards the salary costs over two years of strengthening of the projects team.

Rural Scotland - £80,000
Towards the core costs over two years of running this national environmental charity.

Scottish Environment LINK - £75,000
Towards the costs over three years of facilitating the co-operative work of Scotland's environmental charitable organisations.

Soil Association - £300,000
Towards the costs over two years of a project to achieve widespread adoption of sustainable agriculture and localised food networks.

Sponge Sustainability Network Ltd - £20,000
Towards the costs of a project to promote sustainable development within the construction and property sector.

Ss Mary and John Church - £13,290
Towards the costs of landscaping a neglected Victorian cemetery to provide an accessible green space for the local urban community in Oxford.

Street Tree - £19,539
Towards the costs of planting trees alongside public highways.

Student Force for Sustainability - £20,000
Towards core costs to improve the environmental and financial performance of 120 publicly accessible places in Northamptonshire.

Sussex Pony Grazing and Conservation Trust - £20,000
Towards operating costs over two years of conservation work.

Town and Country Planning Association - £97,440
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a Climate Change Project Development Officer to work on promoting the use of renewable energy.

Urban Mines Ltd - £154,250
Towards salary costs of the new Environmental Business Innovation and Incubation Centre.

Walton-on-Naze & District Wildfowlers Association - £46,000
Towards the costs of specialist skills and equipment hire to reinstate Chalk Stank saltmarsh.

Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The - £75,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of the Deputy Director to provide consultancy and field services on environmental issues and problems.

Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Ltd, The - £70,000
Towards the salaries over two years of staff to support membership development.

Wildlife Trust Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough, The - £98,850
Towards the costs of purchasing seven hectares of land south of Holme Fen National Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire, and the employment of a Campaigns Officer.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Biodiversity Partnership - £7,178
Cawdor Street Allotment Association - £8,990
Eco-Adventure Sports - £3,195
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £8,764
Highland Biological Recording Group - £4,348
Horsham and Crawley Beekeepers Association - £1,650
Worcestershire Farmers' Market Group - £10,000

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