Deadline: September 19, 2025
Ceredigion Nature Partnership is inviting applications for its Local Places for Nature Small Grants Scheme, offering funding to create, restore, or enhance natural assets benefiting wildlife and communities in Ceredigion.
The focus of the scheme includes projects to create, restore or enhance nature, for the benefit of wildlife and deprived communities, with an emphasis on bringing nature back on people’s doorsteps where they live, work, and access public services, especially targeting underrepresented groups and disadvantaged communities in areas with little access to nature.
The scheme provides a total of £100,000 in funding supported by the Welsh Government’s Local Places for Nature fund. It encourages applications from constituted groups, registered charities, companies, private businesses, and public sector organizations delivering services that benefit nature and communities within Ceredigion.
Projects can focus on diverse activities such as creating wildlife ponds, developing green spaces on artificial urban structures, planting street trees, orchards, woodlands, or hedgerows, changing mowing routines to support biodiversity, and creating wildflower meadows or wildlife-friendly food growing spaces and allotments.
Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to maintaining their projects for at least five years after the funding period. While improving access to existing or new natural sites is permitted, projects must also include biodiversity enhancements, like installing nest boxes for birds or bats.
A grant panel reviews projects and awards points based on the biodiversity benefits they deliver, with higher priority given to those that contribute significantly to biodiversity conservation. The maximum grant available per project is £25,000, and there is no minimum grant amount, encouraging smaller groups and projects to apply.
Councillor Eryl Evans, Biodiversity Champion, highlights that this funding can transform small ideas into meaningful projects that enhance local natural spaces, support biodiversity, and improve the mental health and well-being of residents and visitors.
The scheme operates on a competitive basis, and applicants are encouraged to submit their proposals in time for the closing date of Friday, 19th September, at 12 noon.
For more information, visit Ceredigion County Council.
