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Greenhow Fund (Nidderdale National Landscape; set up by Hanson UK)

Greenhow Fund

A small local fund set up by Hanson UK in 2006 when its Pateley Bridge Quarry got planning permission, and run through Nidderdale National Landscape (formerly Nidderdale AONB). It funds projects that look after the area's natural beauty, wildlife or cultural heritage, help people understand and enjoy the landscape, or bring local economic or community benefit. Projects must be in the four parishes around the quarry: Bewerley, Thornthwaite with Padside, Dacre, and Thruscross. Grants cover up to 75% of project costs from a pot of about £10,000 a year. Anyone can apply, including community groups, charities, landowners and individuals.

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Deadline
Rolling
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Effort
Moderate
full application with documents

Who can apply

  • Anyone can apply
  • The application form offers registered charity, community group, Community Interest Company, individual, private business and other
  • The project must be located in the eligible area: the four parishes surrounding Hanson's Pateley Bridge Quarry (Bewerley, Thornthwaite with Padside, Dacre, and Thruscross) in Nidderdale National Landscape, North Yorkshire
  • Applicants must contribute to the project financially or in kind (grants normally cover at most 75% of total costs)
  • In-kind contributions can include donated materials and volunteer time, valued at £50/day unskilled, £150/day skilled and £250/day professional
  • Landowner approval is needed for site-based projects, and successful applicants must sign up to the grant conditions

What it funds

Projects that:

  • Help to look after Nidderdale National Landscape's natural beauty, wildlife or cultural heritage
  • Promote opportunities for the public to understand and enjoy the landscape
  • Provide some local economic benefit or benefit to a local community in the National Landscape

Capital or revenue costs.

Grants can fund part of a larger project.

Past projects include dry stone wall repair, hay meadow and peatland restoration, interpretation boards and trails, and tools and training for volunteer and wildlife groups.

Dry stone wall repair is funded at up to 75% of a flat rate of £45 per linear metre (minimum 1.2m high), and only where the wall has landscape significance or public benefit (e.g. on a public highway or bridleway).

What it will not fund

  • Projects that do not further or support the purposes of AONB (National Landscape) designation
  • Projects that have already started
  • Work that is the statutory responsibility of any agency
  • Standard maintenance work
  • The cost of preparing or submitting applications for statutory consents
  • The purchase of land or buildings
  • Projects outside the eligible area (the four parishes of Bewerley, Thornthwaite with Padside, Dacre and Thruscross)
  • Dry stone walling without landscape significance or public benefit (e.g. not on a public highway or bridleway)

How to apply

  1. Talk to the fund administrator first about eligibility and developing your project: Sarah Kettlewell, 07800 830409, skettlewellconsulting@gmail.com
  2. Read the guidance notes
  3. Complete the application form, attaching a site map and at least two quotes (three for grants over £5,000) with your preferred supplier highlighted
  4. Sign the declaration (an electronic signature is accepted) and return the form to skettlewellconsulting@gmail.com, or post a signed hard copy to Nidderdale National Landscape, The Old Workhouse, King Street, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate HG3 5LE
  5. The application goes to the next Trustee meeting for a decision
  6. If successful, sign up to the grant conditions, carry out the work, then claim in arrears using the claim form with copies of all invoices

Applications can be submitted at any time

Unsigned application forms cannot be registered

Have ready

  • Signed application form
  • Map showing the project location
  • At least two quotations (three for grants over £5,000), with the preferred supplier highlighted
  • Copy of landowner permission, if you are not the owner

The form also asks which statutory consents may apply (planning permission, listed building consent, SSSI etc.), your VAT status, other grant funding for the project, and grants received in the last three years. Grant claims need copies of all invoices.

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