Environment 2005

Grants approved over £20,000

AccountAbility - £90,000
Towards the costs over three years of developing and implementing corporate sustainability standards.

Bowthorpe Heritage Group - £19,000
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Co-ordinator to create a community garden.

Burnham Overy Harbour Trust - £20,000
Towards the costs of repairing the Millfleet dam in Norfolk.

Carbon Disclosure Project Ltd - £130,000
Towards core costs over two years of this organisation, which aims to encourage the world’s largest companies to prepare for a low carbon economy.

Carplus Trust - £161,753
Towards the costs over three years of a training and support framework to develop responsible car use schemes.

CEI Associates - £20,000
Towards taking forward the InterChange, an exchange programme providing learning opportunities for staff from conservation organisations to work with communities for the sustainable management of our natural and cultural heritage.

Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) - £12,964
Towards the design and construction to enhance information displays on ways to improve the energy efficiency of our home.

Community Can Cycle - £57,090
Towards the salaries over two years of staff to promote cycling and recycling to children in Glasgow.

Council for National Parks - £19,800
Towards the salaries of two members of staff and costs to protect the national parks of England and Wales.

Campaign to Protect Rural England - £175,515
Towards mapping levels of tranquillity across England to help control noise and light pollution in the future.

Campaign to Protect Rural Wales - £63,000
Towards the salary over four years of a deputy director to increase organisational capacity and effectiveness.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust - £35,000
Towards the salary of a project manager to support the conservation of meadows in Derbyshire.

Devon Wildlife Trust - £90,000
Towards the salaries and costs over two years of a project to increase the sustainable use of marine resources.

Dorset Wildlife Trust - £97,528
Towards the salary over two years of a Project Officer to pilot the restoration of biodiverse habitat in Dorset.

Environ Trust Ltd - £39,000
Towards the salary of a scheme manager to establish the Leicestershire Produce Scheme as a self-sustaining mechanism for the promotion of local food.

Environmental Law Foundation - £99,995
Towards the costs over three years of expanding the Community Outreach Programme to assist groups in improving their environment.

Five Year Freeze - £50,000
Towards the costs over two years of a project which aims to ensure sustainable farming decisions are made.

Food Links UK Ltd - £131,689
Towards the salary of a co-ordinator to help the local food sector to share best practice and better influence national public policy.

Foundation for International Environmental Law & Dev. - £180,000
Towards the costs over three years of three core programmes covering biodiversity and marine resources, climate change and energy, and trade and sustainable development.

Froglife - £14,745
Towards the costs of hiring a consultant to recommend a five-year business strategy.

Glasgow Natural History Society - £60,000
Towards the costs over three years of a project to conserve the great yellow bumblebee, one of the rarest of the UK's bumblebees.

Green Alliance Trust - £180,000
Towards core costs over three years.

Gwent Wildlife Trust - £20,000
Towards project costs to establish a corporate membership scheme, generating income for six Welsh Wildlife Trusts.

Henry Doubleday Research Association - £10,000
Towards the cost of running a major membership recruitment campaign to educate new organic gardeners.

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - £96,650
Towards the staff, research, seminar, publication and other costs over two years of running the Low Carbon Programme.

Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) - £20,000
Towards the costs of an educational outreach campaign and the salary of a part-time Education Outreach Support Worker.

Lake District Tourism & Conservation Partnership Ltd - £61,700
Towards the costs over three years of a project to promote sustainable tourism.

Landlife - £77,282
Towards the salary costs of developing top-soil inversion trials to create habitats that can withstand the impacts of climate change.

Living Streets - £96,257
Towards the salary over three years of a policy officer to look at the quality of streets and public spaces from the point of view of people on foot.

Localise West Midlands - £20,000
Towards core costs to promote strengthened local economies for social, environmental and economic benefit.

London Cycling Campaign Ltd - £90,082
Towards the salary over two years of a Business and Membership Support Manager.

Marine Conservation Society - £255,000
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of a Fisheries Officer, Mariculture Officer and Biodiversity Officer.

Moelyci Environmental Centre - £18,956
Towards the costs of a horticulture project to produce organic food for local markets.

Moor Trees - £20,000
Towards the salaries and associated costs of two part-time co-ordinators, office and equipment costs, and publicity costs.

National Society for Clean Air & Environmental Protection (NSCA) - 97,366
Towards core support over two years for NSCA's work on noise.

Norfolk Wildlife Trust - £108,480
Towards the costs over two years of the restoration of restoration of Upton Broad and Marshes.

North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee - £12,800
Towards the costs of assessing the impact of prohibited trawling areas in protecting vulnerable fish stocks off the Yorkshire coast.

Oceana, Inc. - £210,000
Towards the costs over three years of a programme to preserve and restore habitat and wildlife in European oceans and seas.

Pesticide Action Network UK - £90,000
Towards the core costs over two years of a UK programme of work to encourage sustainable pest management in agriculture.

Plumpton College - £18,000
Towards the costs of a project to help farmers adapt to CAP reforms and to engage with local food markets.

School of Law, University of Bristol - £16,293
Towards improving the understanding of fishermen and fisheries managers about legal limits and responsibilities of fishing rights and assisting the sustainable use of the sea.

Scottish Crofting Foundation - £98,909
Towards the costs over three years of delivering a sustainable food production service.

Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) - £45,528
Towards the salary over three years of a staff member to develop SEDA's activities to highlight the principles and practice of high-quality ecological design.

Scottish Native Woods - £55,000
Towards the salary and costs over two years of a Fundraising Manager.

SeaWeb - £400,000
Towards the development of a UK Seafood Choices Alliance.

Severn Gorge Countryside Trust - £18,000
Towards the costs over three years of a programme to establish permanent volunteering opportunities for local people.

Somerset Food Links Ltd - £20,000
Towards the cost of managing the development of a local food centre.

The Bat Conservation Trust - £144,000
Towards the salary of a membership development officer and a biodiversity officer to help build a sustainable future for bats.

The Climate Group - £97,570
Towards the costs of designing and implementing a best practice standard for voluntary carbon offsets.

The Cotswold Water Park Society Ltd - £100,000
Towards the core costs of the Biodiversity Department.

The Ecology Trust - £15,000
Towards the costs of a study on patterns of environmental funding.

The Friends of Finsbury Park - £20,000
Towards the salary of a Co-ordinator to manage the regeneration of the park.

The Grasslands Trust - £158,968
Towards the salary costs over two years of a director and an existing senior ecologist to substantially increasing the area of wildlife-rich grasslands in the UK.

The Harnham Watermeadows Trust - £18,750
Towards the costs of employing a hydrology expert.

The Herpetological Conservation Trust - £41,700
Towards the costs of a project to establish a broad consensus for developing a national volunteer-based amphibian and reptile recording scheme.

The Marine Biological Association of the UK - £95,500
Towards the salary over three years of a development officer to develop capability in support of stewardship of the seas.

The National Lobster Hatchery - £19,500
Towards the salary costs of producing and releasing juvenile lobsters in Cornwall.

The Royal Parks Foundation - £100,000
Towards establishing a sustainable conservation programme in Bushy Park, London, to enhance and enrich its biodiversity and raise awareness of the nationally important species living there.

The Shark Trust - £99,500
Towards the salary over three years of the Director of Conservation to expand the trust's work in promoting the study, management and protection of sharks.

The Social Market Foundation - £19,746
Towards three research papers written by a transport specialist, hosting three stakeholder seminars, and the production of a final report to discuss the issue of road charging.

The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough - £300,000
Towards purchasing over 1,500 hectares of land to recreate wetland habitats and protect Holme Fen National Nature Reserve.

The Wildscreen Trust - £50,000
Towards the salary and costs of a Researcher to raise awareness of non-charismatic native British species.

Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd - £160,000
Towards building the conditions necessary to trigger large new flows of low-carbon investment.

Transport 2000 Trust - £210,000
Towards core costs over three years to highlight the impact of transport upon the environment and promote sustainable transport solutions.

Trees for Cities - £45,000
Towards the costs over two years of supplying, planting and maintaining new trees in deprived areas of London.

UK Social Investment Forum - £99,900
Towards encouraging pension funds of FTSE4GOOD UK index companies, CDP Climate Leadership Index UK companies and the public sector to undertake more sustainable investment.

University of Plymouth - £98,213
Towards four salaries over three years to develop methods of sustainable management of the deep-sea fish resources of the Rockall Trough region.

VERTIC - £72718
Towards project costs to promote effective verification systems in the current and future climate change regime.

Wildlife and Countryside Link - £50,000
Towards core costs over two years.

Youth Hostel Association (England & Wales) Ltd - £217,944
Towards piloting local and organic food sourcing policies in youth hostels across the North West and South West of England.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - £20,000
Towards the costs of conserving and restoring an area of rare low-land heath in the Vale of York.


Grants approved up to £10,000

Caring for God's Acre - £7,000
Council for National Parks - 3,500
Dunedin Canmore Housing Association Ltd - £10,000
Forum for the Future - £10,000
International Institute for Environment & Development - £948
Plantlife International The Wild-Plant Conservation Charity - £8,500
South West Handline Fishermen's Association - £6,699
Tiree Rural Development Ltd - £8,000

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