The Naturesave Trust
Overview
The Naturesave Trust supports environmental projects across the UK.
The May – June funding window is open!
The theme is nature connection.
They offer grants between £500 and £5,000.
Fresh air and exercise have long been recommended as a way for many to feel better, physically and mentally, but a connection to nature can also have a profound impact on our ability to create positive action for climate change.
Studies show that a sense of psychological connectedness with the natural world has important benefits for global health because nature connection and pro-environmental behaviour are strongly correlated. It is estimated that around 16% of a population can trigger a social tipping point. The more connected people feel to nature, the more likely they are to take action to care for it.
They are looking for grant applications from charities, community groups, and organisations who are working to connect communities to nature through:
- Arts and cultural activities
- Community gardening
- Green gyms
- Eco anxiety and mental health
- Training a community with green skills
- Conservation volunteering
- Urban nature programmes
- Social prescribing
- Access to nature
- Community wildlife surveys
- Nature mindfulness
Or perhaps you have a nature connection initiative that they haven’t even considered! If you have a completely new approach to encouraging nature connection, then they are all ears.
Guidelines
As a small charity the Trust focuses on small projects for charities, social enterprises and grassroots community organisations whose activities are based within the UK.
These funding guidelines are intended as a basis for projects funded and maybe pragmatically altered/amended from time to time.
- Funding is available for projects submitted by any organisation whether they be charities, voluntary organisations or businesses. The Trust is unable to fund individuals.
- Projects must be entirely based within the UK.
- Grants are made to projects which specifically address the needs set out in the latest funding window and fall under the broad objective of promoting and implementing sustainable development.
- Applications for funding must be forwarded with a completed funding application form, together with any further information that the applicant thinks inform the Trustees further and support their application.
- Applications that cannot convey (to the best of their ability) what they are trying to achieve on the application form, have a lower chance of success. The best applications are those that are succinct, concise and relevant.
- Grants given may be subject to various criteria and funds are only released once these criteria have been met.
- The organisation and/or project must have a website or social media presence.
- The Naturesave Trust no longer provide grants for schools or government-funded organisations.
- Any offer of funding is open from six months of the date of the offer letter and is subject to the conditions set out in the initial pledge email.
- They offer grants up to £5,000.
The Naturesave Trust is wholly funded by the commercial activities of Naturesave Insurance and has been supporting environmental projects for nearly 30 years.