Grants we have made

Grants list

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This section lists all grants we have made since 2013. The categories from 2013 to 2018 were Arts, Environment and Welfare. This changed in 2018 when Welfare was replaced with Social Action. There are also separate categories for grants to the Museums and Galleries Fund and to the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) Fund.

Open Seas Trust

Core costs supporting their campaigning work against bottom trawling and dredging in inshore waters

Category Environment
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £105,000
Duration 3 years
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People's History Museum

Towards core costs, specifically an early career curatorial post

Category Museums and Galleries
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £132,806
Duration 3 years
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Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK)

Core costs to support PAN UK’s programme of work which aims to significantly reduce pesticide use and related harms to both human health and the environment in the UK

Category Environment
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £90,000
Duration 3 years
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Poverty and Environment Trust

Towards core costs of a nationwide project aiming to create a twentyfold increase in community-owned renewable energy generation

Category Social Action
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £60,000
Duration 2 years
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Protect Blue

Funding towards work in the Pitcairn Islands to create a branding and communications strategy for the Pitcairn Marine Protected Area.

Category UKOTs Fund
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £37,000
Duration 1 year
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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Funding to support the purchase of land at the Salina Reserve Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA)

Category UKOTs Fund
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £150,000
Duration 1 year
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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Funding for the post of Sustainable Cayman Campaign Officer to resource a campaign to protect Cayman's Central Mangrove Wetland.

Category UKOTs Fund
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £76,370
Duration 1 year
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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 

To facilitate a new curatorial post, Curator of Art and Climate Sciences, at the Centre

Category Museums and Galleries
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £124,677
Duration 3 years
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Seawilding

Core costs for the Administrator role

Category Environment
Year awarded 2022
Grant size £114,000
Duration 3 years
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