Grants made in 2006
Environment
Grants approved over £20,000
BioRegional Development Group - £174,000
Towards the technical and project staff over three years required to deliver the One Planet Living Project.
British Butterfly Conservation Society Ltd - £195,000
Towards the salary over three years of seven regional officers to implement a programme of landscape scale habitat management projects to conserve threatened butterflies and moths in seven English regions.
Buglife - £142,210
Towards core support over three years for the development manager, administrator and a new biodiversity action officer, to halt the extinction and achieve sustainable populations of invertebrates.
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group - £215,000
Towards core costs over three years for the delivery of advisory services to farmers in Wales.
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £100,000
Towards core funding over three years to support community gardens and city farms.
Food Ethics Council - £97,875
Towards an 18-month programme of research, analysis and policy development involving stakeholders to harness the potential of road pricing in promoting sustainable food systems.
Freshwater Biological Association - £100,000
Towards the cost over two years of employing a biological recording promotion and fundraising officer and a biological recording technical officer to support voluntary study and recording of freshwater species.
Friends of the Earth International - £50,000
Towards the costs of salaries and legal work on greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Friends of the Earth Scotland - £82,988
Towards the salaries, and costs over two years of staff to undertake research and advocacy targeted at the Scottish Executive and Parliament on energy efficiency and microgeneration.
Froglife - £134,637
Towards the salary and costs over three years of a head of conservation to provide Froglife with the scientific expertise to manage existing and future conservation projects and to undertake research.
Global Action Plan - £35,000
Towards core support for practical energy conservation and waste reduction work.
Hymettus Ltd - £77,744
Towards the salary of a project officer over three years to continue and enhance conservation of Aculeates (bees, ants and wasps) through education, advice, survey and research.
Institute for European Environmental Policy - £99,490
Towards a series of activities over two years which will include staff time for research and analysis as well as a number of supporting publications and workshops to support marine protected areas as a fisheries management tool and its integration into UK and European fisheries policy to conserve marine species.
John Muir Trust Ltd - £180,000
Towards the salaries over three years of three wildland rangers and a biodiversity officer to improve biodiversity across 26,060 ha of the Scottish Highlands owned by John Muir Trust.
Local Food Links Ltd - £87,000
Towards piloting a school meals service for primary schools which supports local and organic producers and promotes healthy eating, by supporting the salary costs of a development manager over two years to roll out the model regionally and nationally.
Marine Stewardship Council - £808,000
Towards the costs of building a viable UK marketplace for sustainably-sourced seafood.
National Trust - £53,130
Towards the salary costs over three years of a project officer to create a landscape scale wetland reserve to benefit people and wildlife by expanding Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve through strategic land acquisition and habitat restoration.
Northern Ireland Environment Link - £99,500
Towards core costs over five years to support this network of environmental organisations in Northern Ireland.
ORCA - £84,000
Towards the salary of a director over three years to expand long term monitoring work of cetaceans and their habitat, furthering understanding and supporting policy decisions for their conservation.
Policy Studies Institute - £35,450
Towards the feasibility stage of a green tax commission for the UK.
Pond Conservation - £234,416
Towards the costs of safeguarding UK ponds through increasing public understanding, reversing current declines, and advancing the scientific basis of their conservation.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - £100,000
Towards the salaries of six staff members over three years for development of the Millennium Seed Bank Project's data and knowledge on germinating wild UK Flora species, in particular to recreate or restore natural habitats.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex - £75,532
Towards the salary and travel expenses over two years of a research assistant to develop a reliable monitoring scheme for amphibians that can be widely used by volunteers.
School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton - £35,000
Towards assistant/student salary and laboratory costs over two years to provide the information required by DEFRA to enable the reintroduction of the Burbot.
Scottish Natural Heritage - £100,000
Towards removing the invasive, non-native mink from the Western Isles of Scotland in order to protect native species.
South West Food and Drink - £95,880
Towards the salary and associated costs over three years of a network development officer to develop a network of marine protected areas around the coasts and seas of South West England.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust - £84,600
Towards the salary costs over three years of a large areas manager and two part-time members of staff to rebuild biodiversity and achieve social and economic benefits across two large areas of Staffordshire: Weaver Hills and Staffordshire Washlands.
Sustain - £99,975
Towards the salaries over two years of two part-time workers to increase routine trading between 30 sustainable food producers and independent stores, and other mainstream outlets in South West England.
Sustrans Ltd - £273,875
Towards the core costs to pilot an innovative approach to creating affordable alternatives to home zones, enabling people to walk, cycle, socialise and play safely around their homes.
Thames 21 - £92,137
Towards investigating the potential and practicalities of implementing an ecological habitat restoration programme in the central London area of the tidal River Thames.
The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy - £135,526
Towards the UK awards for energy efficiency in 2006 and 2007 to increase public awareness and understanding of the environmental and ecological benefits of sustainable and renewable energy sources, programmes and products.
The Climate Group - £99,500
Towards salary costs to ensure long-term independence for the Voluntary Carbon Standard and to design a framework for carbon neutrality that raises awareness and builds confidence in the low-carbon market.
The Hawk and Owl Trust - £98,000
Towards part of the purchase price of the land to acquire 55 hectares of arable land and restore it to wildlife-rich floodplain grazing marsh as part of the landscape-scale restoration of the Somerset Levels.
The United Kingdom Noise Association - £100,000
Towards core costs over two years to lobby Government for improvements in the noise climate.
The Woodland Trust - £150,000
Towards the cost of the three-year development phase of the Ancient Tree Hunt, which will map the distribution of ancient trees, raise awareness of their value and ensure their protection throughout the UK.
Zoological Society of London - £95,655
Towards the salary of an employee for three years to develop the Sampled Red List Index, run a series of conservation assessment workshops to assess the status of ten poorly known groups and to develop a database.
Grants approved under £20,000
Anti-Apathy - £20,000
Association for Protecton of Rural Scotland - £575
Botanical Society of the British Isles - £17,000
Calvert Trust Exmoor - £20,000
Castlewellan Regeneration Ltd - £3,260
ClientEarth - £20,000
Community of Arran Seabed Trust - £20,000
Corporate Watch - £10,666
Council for National Parks - £4,000
CPRE - £6,200
Environmental Change Institute - £10,300
Fairshare Educational Foundation (FEF) - £20,000
Food Climate Research Network - £19,800
Frome, Piddle & West Dorset Fishery Association - £12,000
Granthan Canal Partnership - £20,000
Greater Village Regeneration Trust - £19,907
Green Light Trust - £17,932
Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Advisory Group - £10,500
IFEES - £5,840
Invertebrate Link (JCCBI) - £4,475
JPM Parry & Associates Ltd - £20,000
Marine Conservation Society - £19,500
Moor Trees - £20,000
Nettlebed & District Commons Conservators - £10,000
New Economics Foundation - £20,000
Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum - £20,000
P3 Capital - £20,000
Policy Foresight Programme, Institute for Science and Civilization - £10,000
Policy Studies Institute - £9,625
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool - £19,500
Sponge Sustainability Network Ltd - £10,000
Stop Climate Chaos - £20,000
The Climate Group - £14,300
The Ecology Trust - £15,000
The Friends of Wychwood - £20,000
The Game Conservancy Trust - £20,000
The Herpetological Conservation Trust - £9,137
The Institute for Fiscal Studies - £14,110
The Noise Abetment Society - £11,550
The Wildscreen Trust - £20,000
Wildlife and Countryside Link - £20,000
Wildlife Conservation Research - £3,125
Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country - £15,000
Wildlife Trust Worcestershire - £20,000
Women's Environmental Network Trust - £20,000
UK Biodiversity Programme
Buglife - £140,500
Towards an investigation of the relationship between management and ecological quality in grazing marsh ditch systems in England and Wales.
Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University - £129,820
Towards the salary over three years of a researcher to monitor and evaluate landscape fenland restoration projects in lowland England.
Plantlife International - £151,618
Towards the salary costs over two years of an officer to coordinate a programme of trial management, research and information dissemination to protect fenland species and their habitat.
School of Biological Science, University of Plymouth - £141,372
Towards the salaries of a post doctoral worker and two assistants to perform surveys of the lower reaches of fourteen river systems and produce a species / habitats database, a predictive model and a summary report with recommendations.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth - £30,420
Towards the cost of technical support, laboratory consumables and field work to improve the conservation and management of grazing marsh ditch systems.
Total value of grants: £6,044,422
Number of grants: 86
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