A Tree for Everyone Fund in United Kingdom

Aims

• The aim of this funding is to help community organisations and schools to support tree-planting projects, on land where planting rights are secured, that provide a public benefit and enhance environmental sustainability within South Yorkshire.

Priority Areas

• Priority will also be given to projects in the areas with the highest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) ranking. This measure defines deprivation in terms of a range of living conditions:
  • Income
  • Employment
  • Health deprivation and disability
  • Education, skills and training
  • Crime
  • Barriers to housing an

Priority Groups

• Projects working in communities with children and young people, ethnic minorities, or people with protected characteristics.

Funding Information

• Grant Amount: £250 to £2,500

Eligible Costs

• The grant funding is focused on project costs associated with developing and delivering treeplanting projects and could include:
  • Purchasing trees, including native trees, fruit and nut trees and hedging plant species as appropriate for your project. They might fund non-native varieties and species.
  • Sundries for tree-planting if required, for example non-plastic tree guards, ties and stakes or mulch.
  • Community engagement, research, site surveys and planting plans required as part of developing and designing a tree planting project

Eligibility Criteria

• A Tree for Everyone Grant Fund enables tree planting in South Yorkshire. Applications can be made by community organisations and schools in South Yorkshire, but they want individuals and businesses with an interest in working with the local community to get involved too.
• To be eligible for a grant you must:
  • Have a governing document (e.g., a constitution or memorandum of association),
  • Have a board or management committee of at least three unrelated people,
  • Have a bank account in the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatories, and
  • Have beneficiaries who live in South Yorkshire and be locally led and run.
  • All tree-planting projects must be carried out within South Yorkshire.
  • The lead contact on each application must be over 18 years old.
  • One of the applicants must have permission to plant trees in the place you’ve identified for planting.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Grants cannot be awarded to fund:
  • Overseas organisations
  • Retrospective funding (activity and costs that have already taken place or repayment of money which has already been spent)
  • Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals
  • Organisations or activities primarily for the benefit of animals rather than people
  • Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
  • Tree planting outside South Yorkshire
  • Tree planting that is required as part of a planning consent.

For more information, visit SYCF.