The Linnean Society: Our Nature Local Grant Scheme
Overview
Overview
The Our Local Nature Grant scheme is designed to provide young people with an opportunity to take the lead on projects that involve their local nature and natural spaces, to aid young people in realising their influence to affect positive change, to have their voices heard, and see their ideas come to life.
They therefore fund innovative projects that are designed and led by young people in the UK.
Adult applicants should develop their proposal alongside young people and the projects should seek to empower local young people to enact changes they want to see, such as increasing access to natural spaces and improving understanding of their local biodiversity.
This grant is purposefully broad and welcomes novel ideas.
Some examples of possible proposals could be:
- running a school festival about nature;
- painting community murals showcasing biodiversity in the area;
- building a community garden;
- creating a nature walk;
- hiring a speaker to come and talk about local foraging.
Young people must be the leaders of initiatives and not just participants or beneficiaries.
Funding Level & Notes
The maximum award is £1,000 per proposal.
They welcome and encourage applications for significantly lower amounts - in the last two years they have funded a wide spread of projects ranging from £150 to £1,000. The Society is happy to co-fund any project with other organisations.
The grant can be used for materials, room hire, publicity, public-speakers, training-professionals, contractors and freelancers, project-specific staff costs (see limitation on webpage), audio-visual hire, reasonable volunteer expenses, transport or other costs of activities/ events.
Eligibility
These grants are available to individuals and organisations who are linked with a group of young people within the UK. This includes, but is not limited to, school staff, student groups, home education groups, community groups and small charities. There must be evidence that the applicant is linked with a group of young people. They will not award more than one grant to any one applicant in any one year.
Their application process is designed to be simple to allow young people to apply with adult support. Through this they hope to encourage thoughtful applications without too much strain on your valuable time.