Clean Up

This year, CSV Action Earth is running from 1st March to 31st July 2008. In England, Wales and Scotland, Morrisons are sponsoring grants of up to £50 to assist groups in carrying out environmental projects.

In addition, Scottish Natural Heritage are providing a limited number of £250 grants for large-scale biodervisity projects in Scotland.

The purpose of the campaign is to enable people to take part in practical conservation projects and empower them to improve quality of life for themselves, their communities and future generations.

Last year, we supported over 1000 projects, covering activities such as tree planting, building bird boxes and cleaning up beaches.

We are grateful to Morrisons and Scottish National Heritage for their support of our 2008 campaign. You can find out more and register your project by visiting the Action Earth website.

www.csv.org.uk/Campaigns/Action+Earth

Grants

Is your organisation full of ideas to improve the local environment but lacking funds?

If your project helps protect and enhance the environment for the benefit of the people of Kirklees, your group could be eligible for a grant.

Kirklees Council Environment Grant Scheme helps support a wide range of environmental activity by not-for-profit organisations, community groups and council services taking action to improve both our local and global environments.

Grants are awarded to projects that fit into one or more of the following areas:

• Wildlife habitat creation and protection (for example, tree, shrub and wildflower planting; pond creation)
• Reducing waste and pollution (for example, community composting, recycling projects, community clean-ups, car-share clubs)
• Promoting use of the countryside (for example, footpath improvements, walks leaflets)
• Raising awareness of environmental Issues (for example, newsletters, training courses, environmental education)
• Contributing to wider sustainability issues
• Improve access to the local natural environment and work towards developing a green network in Kirklees.

Small grants (up to £1,500) are available from the Community and Service Support Fund for community/voluntary groups, not-for-profit organisations and Kirklees Council services.

Larger strategic grants (up to £10,000) are available for core funding environmental organisations or to support larger environmental projects.

All grant-aided groups have to be formally constituted with people designated to manage the project, look after the funds and with a bank account.

For further information and a proposal form , contact:

Kirklees Council
Environment Unit
23 Estate Buildings
Railway Street
Huddersfield
HD1 1JY
01484 223568
environment.unit@kirklees.gov.uk