Grants on offer to manage or own your local woods

March 2, 2016

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blogs/woodland-trust/2016/02/community-woods/

Thanks to support from Nationwide Building Society, we’re offering communities across the North of England the opportunity to apply for grants from a £170,000 pot to manage and own their local woods.

Research suggests just 0.2 per cent (4,711 hectares) of woodland in the UK is owned by community groups, but also that the proportion of woodland in community ownership is much lower than elsewhere in Europe.

“Trees and woods have so many benefits for society but we’re becoming increasingly disconnected from the natural world.” Beccy Speight, Woodland Trust Chief Executive

We are offering start-up grants of £500 to new groups in the pilot region, with established groups eligible to apply for a grant of up to £10,000 to take on some form of woodland ownership. We have set the target of working with 50 communities before the end of the pilot next year to either establish groups or enable them to take ownership of woodland.

Written by kalikellett Posted in News