The Greater Manchester Environment Fund (GMEF) is accepting applications from charities and other not-for-profit organisations across Greater Manchester for Round Five of the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund.
Grants of between £2,000 and £40,000 are available for local organisations to create or improve green spaces, including but not limited to:
- Enhancing or creating publicly accessible green spaces for people and wildlife and engaging communities with these new spaces.
- Permanently greening streets or turning unused viable land into green community spaces.
- Creating new permanent parklets or pocket parks and engaging people with these new spaces.
- Cleaning up and restoring green spaces, streams, rivers, canals or ponds with local communities.
- The development of green corridors linking parks, community gardens, or other green spaces.
- Projects that significantly improve the biodiversity of the area.
Funding can be used for capital or material costs, equipment hire, purchase fees, volunteer costs, labour costs, publication or engagement materials, project maintenance costs and direct staff costs (up to 15% of the total project costs), post-project maintenance costs (up to 10% of the total project costs), and other costs related to project delivery.
Priority will be given to projects that will benefit communities experiencing inequalities and lacking access to green space.
Deadline: 26 July 2024, 12pm