Highland Council Nature Restoration Fund
The Highland Council are inviting you - local communities, to apply to a newly established fund from the Scottish Government in order to support nature restoration projects.
The aim of the chosen funded projects will be to deliver nature restoration, safeguard wildlife, and tackle any causes of biodiversity loss due to climate change.
The Highland Council has been allocated £200,000 towards capital projects that meet the fund’s criteria, the minimum grant support available being £2,500 and the maximum £20,000.
To be eligible your project must
deliver positive effects for biodiversity and enhance local ecosystems
and/or
address the climate emergency and its impacts through mitigation and adaptation and by promoting nature-based solutions
Examples of the types of projects the Nature Restoration Fund will support include:
Wee Forests (purchase and planting of trees)
Rain gardens (construction and materials plus planting)
Improving Greenspace for Outdoor Learning (purchase and planting, equipment for outdoor learning, small access improvements)
Action for pollinators (equipment for maintaining wildflower areas/verges plus planting)
Urban woodlands - Climate forests (purchase and planting)
Planting of wildlife corridors, removal of barriers to movement, pollinator planting
Natural flood management actions such as connecting rivers with flood plains, pond creation, de-culverting, in-stream works for habitat and flow variability
Habitat and species enhancement works
Applications are welcomed from constituted community groups; local authorities or other public sector bodies; charities; voluntary and social enterprises; co-operatives and community ownership initiative; development trusts. You must submit any expression of interest before the deadline of Friday 26th November.
For full information, further guidance and application form please visit –www.highland.gov.uk/naturerestorationfund
