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The Linder Foundation

Linder Foundation Environment Grants

Project grants from the Linder Foundation for UK registered charities running local or regional land-based projects on biodiversity (such as sustainable farming), or preservation and reintroduction of red-listed species, in urban or rural settings. The average grant is £15,000 and must cover at least 50% of the project cost. Applications go through an online eligibility checker, then an expression of interest and an invited full application decided at trustee meetings three times a year.

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You could get
Amount not specified
Deadline
Not published
no closing date given
Effort
Heavy
budgets, references, often several stages

Who can apply

  • Charities or exempt charities registered in the UK only
  • Projects must be in the UK, land based, local or regional rather than national, and engage local communities
  • The eligibility checker also asks whether you have at least three unrelated trustees and whether your unrestricted reserves exceed 12 months' expenditure

What it funds

Specific land-based projects relating to biodiversity (such as sustainable farming practices) and/or species preservation or reintroduction, in urban or rural environments, farm-based or across connected farms, and possibly with a research element providing the evidence base for change. Priorities:

  • Potential to be replicated or scaled up
  • Volunteer and/or community engagement
  • Biodiversity improvements for targeted species or habitat improvements
  • Local or regional projects
  • Improving carbon capture
  • Regenerative farming focused on healthy soils, farmland ecosystems, sustainable food production and carbon capture

Past grants include agroforestry with farms, water vole reintroduction and a tractor for wetland habitat management.

Average grant £15,000, which should cover at least 50% of the total project cost.

What it will not fund

  • Projects on a national scale
  • Projects that are not land based
  • Projects that do not engage local communities
  • Species preservation or reintroduction for species not on the red list (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)
  • Core running costs
  • Projects outside the UK (not typically funded)
  • Individuals, individual research or study, or sponsorship

How to apply

  1. Read the Environment eligibility criteria
  2. Complete the online Eligibility Checker
  3. If eligible, you are given access to the Expression of Interest form; submit it and the Foundation will contact you
  4. If invited, submit a full application, allowing time for due diligence before the trustee meeting
  5. Trustees decide grants at their meetings; terms and conditions apply to all successful grants

The environment page gives trustee meetings as March, July and October; the How to apply page says July, November and March.

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