Apply for funding to respond quickly to transient and unexpected scientific opportunities.
These may be events affecting the environment created by the occurrence of sporadic natural events such as earthquakes, droughts, floods and ephemeral events in ecosystems.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding.
Location National
Funding organisation Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £100,000
Total size of grant scheme £100,000
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EWCO supports the establishment of new woodlands and is administered by the Forestry Commission (FC). It is funded by the Exchequer through the Nature for Climate Fund, to support projects that will help us achieve Net Zero by 2050, as well as helping nature recovery and delivering other objectives in the 25 Year Environment Plan.
Landowners, land managers and public bodies can apply to the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) for support to create new woodland, including through natural colonisation, on areas as small as one hectare. You could receive up to £13,000 per hectare to support your woodland creation scheme.
Location England
Funding organisation Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - Forestry Commission - Nature for Climate Fund
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £4,000 to £1 million
Total size of grant scheme £115 million
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Disabled Facilities Grants can help meet the cost of making changes to your home so you or someone you live with can live safely and independently. People of all ages and tenures can apply to their local council for a grant.
Location England, Wales, Northern Ireland
Funding organisation Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Who can apply Personal / Individual
How much you can get From £1 to £36,000
Total size of grant scheme N/A
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The Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) is a 3 year, £288 million capital grant fund that will support the commercialisation and construction of new low and zero carbon (LZC) heat networks (including the supply of cooling) and the retrofitting and expansion of existing heat networks. It aims to develop and grow the heat network market and to address some of the challenges of decarbonising the UK’s heat sector.
Location England
Funding organisation Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Non-profit, Private Sector, Public Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £1 million (applications above £1 million can be made, should an applicant have assessed that support in excess of this amount is required, and all other application gated metrics are met, however BEIS reserves the right to decline such an application)
Total size of grant scheme £288m across 3 years in quarterly funding rounds
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The Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) is a discretionary grant paid to eligible community transport operators to help them recover some of their fuel costs. The amount each operator receives is based on the amount of fuel they use running eligible services.
Location England
Funding organisation Department of Transport
Who can apply Private Sector, Public Sector, Non-profit
How much you can get From No minimum to No maximum
Total size of grant scheme N/A
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The adoption support fund (ASF) provides funds to local authorities and regional adoption agencies (RAAs) to pay for essential therapeutic services for eligible adoptive and special guardianship order (SGO) families. The ASF will continue to offer support to adoptive and eligible special guardianship families up to March 2025.hjg
Location England
Funding organisation Department of Education
Who can apply Personal / Individual
How much you can get From £1 to £5000
Total size of grant scheme N/A
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If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk. If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We’ll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks.
Location England, Wales, Northern Ireland
Funding organisation Department for Work and Pension and the NHS
Who can apply Personal / Individual
How much you can get From undefined to undefined
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A lease scheme available to private and public landowners with options of 60 or 120 years. Forestry England (FE) are looking for land plots suitable for tree planting ideally of 50Ha+. Once the lease is agreed FE will design, plant and manage the new woodland and the landowner will receive a negotiated rent.
Location England
Funding organisation Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Who can apply Public Sector, Private Sector, Non-profit
How much you can get From £100 to £300 per hectare per year
Total size of grant scheme £50 million
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The grant provides small and medium-sized businesses money off the cost of installing electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints and supporting infrastructure for their staff and fleet vehicles.
Location National
Funding organisation Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £350 to £30,000
Total size of grant scheme £5 million
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