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The Rewilding Innovation Fund is provided by funding from the Dormywood Trust, the Evolution Education Trust, The Vintry, Charles Langdale, and others, and is administrated by Rewilding Britain.
This fund aims to foster new and ambitious community rewilding projects, and to remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. Funding will be awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.
Grants of up to £15,000 are available. It is expected that most awards will be less than £10,000.
To apply for funding, projects must be:
- Based in Britain
- Part of the Rewilding Network (includes community, private and public landowners, and managers of rewilding areas on the land and at sea).
- Rewilding at scale (more than 40 hectares) according to Rewilding Britain’s rewilding principles. This can be an individual landholding or a cluster of landholdings. It is recommended that applicants who are rewilding on a smaller scale form a group or network to apply.
Priority will be given to applicants who are taking an innovative approach to land and marine rewilding, and applicants that will help develop learning and evidence for others within the Rewilding Network.
Previously unsuccessful applicants can reapply for funding in this round.
Location of funding – England, Wales, and Scotland.
Funding cannot be provided for land purchase or capital costs, such as fencing.
Funding is for works that could potentially unlock further funding or move a project in scale.
Examples of potential applications include:
- Business plans and strategies.
- Community engagement activities or co-design.
- Feasibility studies.
- Technological innovations.
Previously successful projects have included:
- A social prescribing and community outreach programme run from a nature-based site.
- Community forest planting.
- Modelling carbon capture.
- A feasibility study to identify potential areas for seagrass restoration.
- A tree seeding experiment.
Funding can cover costs such as direct interventions, or any expertise that a project requires.
All funding must be spent within 15 months.
For more details or to apply please visit Rewilding Britain | Think Big. Act Wild.