Grants made in 2007
Environment
Grants approved over £20,000
Association of Rivers Trusts - £40,000
Towards core funding over two years to bring initiatives together to restore and protect river ecosystems in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by supporting local community river initiatives and providing guidance to new and emerging river trusts.
British Dragonfly Society - £75,000
Towards the salaries and costs over three years of a database officer and a conservation officer to continue conservation work, achieve a long-term sustainable programme of volunteer recording activities and data on dragonflies and their habitats.
Bumblebee Conservation Trust - £97,000
Towards a conservation officer over three years to engage in outreach work with schools, farmers, land managers and nature reserve wardens to promote awareness of the plight of British Bumblebees and encourage changes in land management practices to prevent further declines in bumblebee populations.
Carbon Disclosure Project Ltd - £90,900
Towards the salary of a chief financial officer and assistant to the executive team to support improved disclosure, reduce carbon emissions from the corporate sector and strengthen CDP as an organisation.
ClientEarth - £75,000
Towards the salary and related expenses of a lawyer over three years to carry out work on environmental policy law to promote robust environmental laws and ensure their just administration.
Council for National Parks - £30,334
Towards specialist expertise in membership development, to improve the organisation's communication tools and to pilot a membership development strategy to ensure the long term sustainability of the organisation.
Cumbria Biodiversity Partnership - £105,000
Towards the salary of an ecologist and an advisor over three years to protect and improve the condition of hay meadows in Cumbria.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust - £28,000
Towards the salary of a project manager and the costs of developing a pilot local grazing scheme, seed supply scheme, landowner liaison work, supporting volunteers and to stop the loss of wildflower meadows by developing innovative ways of helping landowners to manage their meadows positively and gain economic benefit from them.
Ecological Continuity Trust - £40,000
Towards fundraising support and start up costs to set the new organisation on a secure institutional base for long-term ecological experiments in the UK.
Ecotrust - £46,500
Towards salaries and other expenses over nineteen months associated with research and outreach activities conducted by the UK partners to fulfil, evaluate and compare the major lifecycle environmental and social impacts associated with the production of farmed and wild-caught salmon for human consumption.
Eden Rivers Trust - £72,846
Towards the salary of a part-time fisheries biologist over three years to naturally increase and sustain the wild trout population in the River Eden by undertaking investigation, implementing practical work, monitoring effects and disseminating best practice.
Environmental Law Foundation - £105,000
Towards an enhanced advice and referral service over three years to provide a service linking together people who need legal advice on environmental issues, to a network of lawyers and consultants who provide free advice.
European Federation for Transport and Environment - £47,140
Towards buying and analysing industry sales data over two years and publicising progress made by major carmakers to improve fuel economy and to campaign for legally-binding fuel economy standards in order to reduce CO2 emissions from cars.
Fairshare Educational Foundation - £74,000
Towards core costs over three years to work with the UK's £860 billion pension fund sector and the £7 trillion fund management sector in social and environmental issues.
Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FAWG) - £70,000
Towards staff costs over two years to continue to develop FWAG's services for farmers and landowners and to assist Northern Ireland farmers to deliver biodiversity gain and environmental improvement for their farms and the wider environment.
Flora Locale - £151,254
Towards the salary of a project officer over three years to promote restoration of wild flower grasslands (wild meadows).
Forest Peoples Programme - £40,730
Towards the costs of the Shrink Project co-ordinator over two years, to engage with 20 major UK companies to motivate and assist substantial reductions in paper use.
GM Freeze - £70,000
Towards staff and running costs over two years to ensure that sustainable development is at the heart of decision making about the use of GM technology in food and farming. IPPR - £86,500
Towards the costs of conducting the research, including commissioning papers, a deliberative forum, interviews, staff and publication costs to assess whether the Government should seek the adoption of personal carbon trading to reduce the UK's carbon dioxide emissions; and, if so, how?
Lancashire Wildlife Trust - £49,023
Towards the costs over three years of the Northwest Lowland Water Vole Project, which aims to protect existing populations of water vole, develop habitat corridors and control predation of this threatened species throughout Lancashire.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust - £62,499
Towards a part-time environmental land management officer over three years to guide and encourage farmers in priority areas to support the preservation and re-creation of endangered grazing marshes in coastal Lincolnshire and to conserve, restore and re-create coastal grazing marsh.
London Cycling Campaign Ltd - £67,500
Towards the development costs over three years associated with the organisational improvement projects, with a contribution to the staff costs, to promote cycling in Greater London.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust - £90,000
Towards the salary of a new post and associated costs for a project officer over three years to recreate 70 hectares of core heathland on a former conifer plantation, contributing to Biodiversity Action Plan targets as part of Norfolk's ecological network.
North Pennines AONB Partnership - £132,000
Towards the costs of blocking 80km of peatland grips for the positive impact on biodiversity and hydrology in the area to restore priority habitat areas and reduce carbon emissions.
Open University - £126,999
Towards revised management plans, and production of a practical handbook to conserve and enhance the UK's remaining floodplain meadows through a better understanding of the processes that sustain them.
Policy Studies Institute - £432,810
Towards staff and associated costs over twenty-seven months of a green tax commission for the UK large-scale introduction of green taxation.
Population and Sustainability Network - £30,000
Towards the salary of a part-time project officer over two years to introduce greater rigour to the organisation's advocacy and communication work, in order to increase effectiveness and reach.
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society - £109,128
Towards the costs of four scientists' research over 28 months; to promote conservation of deep sea biodiversity by developing practical solutions that improve sustainability of fishing and other human uses of deep sea regions.
Scottish Environment LINK - £93,000
Towards the salaries and associated costs over two years of two Marine Bill orientated posts to help deliver a fit-for-purpose marine bill for Scotland, including marine spatial planning and proper protection for marine life.
Sheffield Wildlife Trust - £100,468
Towards the staff costs over two years of the waterways biodiversity programme in Sheffield and Rotherham to preserve and develop the biodiversity of local waterways.
Sherwood Forest Trust - £120,000
Towards the salary of the CEO over three years to deliver across Sherwood Forest's Natural Character Area, landscape level habitat work, reducing fragmentation, encouraging endangered Sherwood species and involving communities in Sherwood's countryside and culture.
Small Woods Association - £61,500
Towards the salary of a project officer over three years to secure the long term management of existing coppice woodlands and create new ones through the co-ordination of local coppice groups and landowners.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation - £51,670
Towards the co-ordinator of the Green Shoots project over three years, which aims to maintain and enhance the biodiversity of wildlife on land owned by the organisation's members and contribute to the Cheshire Local Biodiversity Action Plan.
The Carbon Performance Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University - £31,000
Towards performance benchmarks to drive substantial emissions reduction activity by companies.
The Climate Group - £95,570
Towards the design, implementation and ongoing support for systems that will improve the organisation's ability to communicate with colleagues, partners and beneficiaries.
The Cotswold Water Park Society Ltd - £96,000
Towards the core costs of the biodiversity team over three years to deliver significant biodiversity gains as part of a 20-year project to create a corridor of new habitats.
The Dalriada Project - £30,000
Towards the practical conservation work to facilitate habitat management in native woodlands, predominantly removing invasive species and allowing regeneration to protect, connect and restore over 230 hectares of native woodland habitat within the Dalriada area of mid-Argyll over the next two years.
The Global Commons Trust - £50,000
Towards the core costs over three years to support the objectives of bringing all governments to a common account of carbon neutrality as required by the UN climate convention.
The Herpetological Conservation Trust - £179,000
Towards the Widespread Amphibian and Reptile Project over three years to further the conservation of widespread amphibian and reptile species throughout the UK.
The Marine Biological Association of the UK - £143,000
Towards a generation of key ecological data on migratory fish species in UK water over three years, to aid their conservation and recovery by underpinning Biodiversity Action Plans.
The Noise Association - £39,000
Towards a publication documenting how rural road noise affects people's lives.
The Royal Horticultural Society - £66,000
Towards salary and costs of a regional advisor over two years to support the campaign for School Gardening, encouraging, inspiring and facilitating horticulture in schools across the UK.
The Wildscreen Trust - £46,000
Towards the salary and costs of the ARKive Director's position for a single year to promote the public understanding of biodiversity and the need for its conservation by using the power of wildlife imagery.
Transition Network - £30,500
Towards the salary of a training professional to devise, co-ordinate and deliver a range of courses to support community-led Transition Initiatives to help communities in the UK and Ireland to prepare for and mitigate the effects of climate change and peak oil through community led initiatives.
Transition Town Totnes Ltd - £39,000
Towards the salary of an energy descent plan co-ordinator and an advisor to increase the resilience and sustainability of Totnes and environs by reducing energy and resource use.
Tweed Forum Ltd - £69,000
Towards the ongoing invasive plant control programme over three years to eradicate invasive Giant Hogweed and Japanese Knotweed from the Tweed catchment and to improve the habitat and biodiversity to demonstrate best practice in invasive species control.
UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum (UKOTCF) - £99,750
Towards organisational core costs over three years, to enable UKOTCF to support its local partner organisations in UK territories to achieve conservation of globally important biodiversity.
Ulster Wildlife Trust - £91,904
Towards two policy officers over two years to deliver a fit-for-purpose Marine Bill for Northern Ireland.
Westcountry Rivers Trust - £97,982
Towards developing and implementing a strategy over three years for managing invasive weeds in the Camel catchment special area of conservation, which will underpin national policy management and treatment of invasive weeds and the collation and dissemination of findings.
Wild Trout Trust - £75,000
Towards the salary of a conservation programme manager and running costs over two years to improve the quality of urban rivers for the benefit of trout and other wildlife.
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) - £100,000
Towards the salary of the director of conservation over 30 months to co-ordinate WWT's conservation work and raise their profile in conservation policy making.
Wildlife and Countryside Link - £75,226
Towards the cost of a marine policy and campaign co-ordinator over three years, to deliver a fit-for-purpose Marine Bill.
Wildlife Trust Wales Office - £75,000
Towards the salaries of three posts over three years to deliver and implement the Marine Bill in Wales. WWF-UK - £170,000
Towards the creation of a fund over two years to support the enactment of the proposed Marine Bill.
Wye & Usk Foundation - £94,000
Towards the costs over three years to map out and eradicate invasive weeds, plus a campaign to involve stakeholders in their awareness, detection and ongoing management in the Usk and Wye catchments.
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust - £60,000
Towards eradicating American signal crayfish from the Ribble catchment to protect native white clawed crayfish and the wider habitat.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - £93,300
Towards building the Trust's capacity over 16 months to deliver its mission including support for membership database, data sets and salary costs.
Zoological Society of London - £271,950
Towards the costs of the SRLI co-ordinator salary, internships and report production for the completion of butterfly and mollusc assessments and assessment of four new taxonomic groups over two years, as part of the Sampled Red List Index Project.
Grants approved up to £20,000
Action for a Global Climate Community - £20,000
Ayrshire River Trust - £19,190
Community of Arran Seabed Trust - £20,000
Cromarty Firth Fishery Trust - £20,000
Deveron Bogie & Isla Rivers Trust - £19,650
EcoNexus - £19,100
Energy Saving Day - £15,000
European Squirrel Initiative - £20,000
Forward Scotland - £9,500
Green Alliance Trust - £5,875
Green Thing Ltd - £20,000
Lochaber Fisheries Trust - £11,400
Natural History Museum - £18,888
Road Sense - £10,000
Ruralnet - £7,530
Tay Foundation - £19,500
The Tubney Charitable Trust - £20,000
Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd - £2,292
Transition Town Lewes - £20,000
Association for Environment Conscious Building - £20,000
Aviation Environment Federation - £10,000
Beech Croft Road Residents Group - £11,320
Blooming Futures Ltd - £20,000
Botanical Society of the British Isles - £1,700
Brecknock Farmers Market - £10,938
Campaign for Dark Skies - £9,000
Carbon Disclosure Project Ltd - £20,000
Carbon Disclosure Project Ltd - £4,112
Centre for Alternative Technology Charity Ltd - £5,000
Centre for Human Ecology - £7,625
Chatham House - £8,000
City University - £20,000
Cool Earth - £20,000
Cwm Harry Land Trust Ltd - £10,000
East Malling Research - £19,748
Environmental Law Foundation - £7,350
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - £19,900
Fife Harca Ltd - £2,717
Friends of the Earth Trust - £20,000
Going Carbon Neutral Riverside - £3,195
green.tv - £18,300
Heron Corn Mill - Beetham Trust - £20,000
IC Consultants Ltd - £19,800
IFEES - £20,000
Lewis and Harris Horticultural Producers - £15,000
Lifeisland - £10,000
Lune Habitat Group - £16,000
Modus Vivendi Ltd - £20,000
National Society for Clean Air & Environmental Protection - £3,200
Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust - £15,000
School of Biological Science, University of Plymouth - £4,633
School of Law, University of Bristol - £19,987
Scottish Native Woods - £16,840
South Downs Campaign - £12,620
South West Wildlife Trusts - £9,400
St Abbs & Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve - £13,600
Sussex Pony Grazing and Conservation Trust - £10,000
Task 37 (UK) Ltd - £15,000
The Baring Foundation - £20,000
The English Hedgerow Trust - £14,000
The Environment Foundation - £5,000
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) - £18,000
The West Wales Eco Centre - £20,000
Transition Penwith - £20,000
Transport 2000 Trust - £10,000
VERTIC - £20,000
Wales Environment Link - £10,000
Wildlife and Countryside Link - £20,000
Zoological Society of London - £20,000
Total value of grants: £6,074,893
Number of grants: 127
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