Grants to Transform Local Spaces

Grow Wild UK awards funding for projects that brings people together through activities that connect their community and celebrate UK native wildflowers, plants and/or fungi. The Fund is a partnership between Grow Wild UK, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and Lemos&Crane.

Projects must:

• Stand out from the crowd. 
• Focus on UK native wildflowers, plants and/or fungi, highlighting the importance of these species for the environment, and for quality of life. 
• Engage one or more of these groups: young people aged 12-18, students and young people aged 18-25, people living in urban areas, people experiencing hardship and reduced access to services, adults that are less engaged with their community and environmental activities. 
• Encourage large-scale community involvement, ideally in the hundreds. 
• Deliver the project in a space or location that is accessible to the general public. 
• Be delivered by voluntary, youth or community groups that are constituted, not-for-profit, or charitable. Also includes secondary schools.

It is estimated that the fund will support 50 groups across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2018.

For more information click on https://www.growwilduk.com/project-funding

The deadline for applications is 15 January 2018 (12pm)