Local Places for Nature, December 2022
A capital grant scheme to enable communities in Wales to acquire, restore and enhance nature.
The scheme would strengthen the resilience of Wales’ network of protected land and marine sites, supporting nature’s recovery while actively encouraging community engagement.
Local Places for Nature Breaking Barriers
The scheme would increase engagement in disadvantaged communities to create, restore and enhance nature ‘on the doorstep’.
Schedule of decisions
#naturNewyd am Natur
Applicant: Hirwaun YMCA
Decision: Award grant of £241,370 (100%)
#NNF2 Newt Networks
Applicant: Wild Ground
Decision: Award grant of £249,576 (100%)
#NNF2 Connecting the Carmarthenshire Coast
Applicant: Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Decision : Award grant of £222.772 (100%)
#NNF2 Wild Service Trees in Wales
Applicant: Aberaeron Restoration Limited
Decision: Award grant of £87,600 (100%)
#NNF2 Hiraeth yn y Môr (HYYM) - Advancing Ocean Literacy in North East Wales through marine citizenship
Applicant: The Marine Conservation Society
Decision: Award grant of £244,000 (76%)
#NNF2 Connected Commons & The Centre for Nature Recovery
Applicant: Dr Beynon's Bug Farm Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £211,624 (100%)
#NNF2 Nature Connections in the Llyfnant, Melindwr and Einion catchments
Applicant: Coetir Anian
Decision: Award grant of £249,995 (100%)
#NNF2 Connecting Nature, Connecting Communities
Applicant: Gwent Wildlife Trust Ltd.
Decision: Award grant of £248,834 (100%)
#NNF2 - Restoration, Protection and Enhancement of the Ely Valley SSSI (RePrEEV)
Applicant: South East Wales Rivers Trust
Decision: Award grant of £248,314 (100%)
#NNF2 Living With Beavers in the Dyfi Catchment: Ensuring Positive Coexistence
Applicant: North Wales Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £249,545 (100%)
#NNF2 Restoring Wild Oysters to Conwy Bay
Applicant: The Zoological Society of London
Decision: Award grant of £249,919 (64%)
#NNF2: Healthy Resilient Grasslands
Applicant: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited
Decision: Award grant of £249,565 (100%)
#NNF2 Preventing Aliens Taking Hold (PATH): Building resilience within the River Dee SAC
Applicant: North Wales Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £249,999 (100%)
#NNF2 Limestone Grassland Restoration North Wales
Applicant: North Wales Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £249,999 (100%)
#NNF2 Gobaith Coetir – Woodland Hope
Applicant: Bat Conservation Trust
Decision: Award grant of £227,603 (100%)
#NNF2 - Pwyth mewn pryd / Stitch in time
Applicant: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Decision: Award grant of £170,193 (98%)
#NNF2 Biosecurity for Wales
Applicant: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Decision: Award grant of £249,713 (100%)
#NNF2 Merthyr Mawr Dunes: Reconnecting Nature
Applicant: The Trustees of Merthyr Mawr Estate'
Decision: Award grant of £120,731 (100%)
#NNF2 Engagement, Education and Connection for Resilient Welsh Coasts and Seas
Applicant: Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum Community Interest Company
Decision: Reject
#NNF2Llynllechowainheath
Applicant: Carmarthenshire County Council
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Collaborating for Nature Networks in South Radnorshire Rhwydweithiau Cydweithredu dros Natur yn Ne Sir Faesyfed
Applicant: Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Limited
Decision: Reject
#NNF2: Resilient accessible woodlands
Applicant: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Gwynedd Council Country Parks
Applicant: Cyngor Gwynedd
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Afon Clettwr habitat creation and public engagement
Applicant: Mr A & Mrs E Neagle t/a Anuna
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Wales Wye Catchment Citizen Science (WWCCS)
Applicant: Friends of the Upper Wye
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Bro Cors Caron NNR Hare and Wader Conservation
Applicant: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Prosiect mamaliaid morol Enlli – Bardsey marine mammal project
Applicant: Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Reconnecting Pant y Sais
Applicant: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Tir Canol, Tir Ni, Tir Natur
Applicant: Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Cynefin Cymru
Applicant: Caring for God's Acre
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Code Red
Applicant: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Ebbw River Bank restoration an enhancement project.
Applicant: Newport City Council
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Enhancing the Vision for the Bristol Channel and Severn in Wales
Applicant: Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Regenerative ocean farming: Coastal and Community Regeneration in Pembrokeshire
Applicant: WWF-UK
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Cae Plwca Uschaf Improvements
Applicant: Eileen Brenda Knight
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Powys Moorland Partnership
Applicant: Ireland Moor Conservation Ltd
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Teifi Uchaf RLN/NFM (Rheoli Llifogydd Naturiol/Natural Flood Management)
Applicant: West Wales Rivers Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Ailgyflwyno Eryr Cymru - Inspiring a wilder Wales: restoring the White-tailed eagle to Welsh natural and cultural heritage.
Applicant: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust – UK
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Restoring Elan Habitats for Nature Recovery
Applicant: The Welsh Water Elan Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF2 Coalfield Connections
Applicant: Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
Decision: Reject
#Natur3 BMHS Green Spaces for Wellbeing Project
Applicant: BAME Mental Health Support CIC
Decision: Award grant of £99,133 (100%)
#Natur3 Social Prescribing the Woodland Way - Working with Diverse Communities
Applicant: Small Woods Association
Decision: Award grant of £47,007 (100%)
#Natur3 Nurture to Nature
Applicant: Growing Space
Decision: Award grant of £37,000 (100%)
#Natur3 Travelling back to Nature
Applicant: Romani Cultural & Arts Company
Decision: Award grant of £57,666 (100%)
#Natur3 Stalk to Fork
Applicant: Cambrian Village Trust
Decision: Award grant of £65,000 (100%)
#Natur3 Rydym yn natur
Applicant: Outside Lives Ltd
Decision: Reject
#Natur3 Adopt a tributary / Mabwysiadu llednant
Applicant: West Wales Rivers Trust
Decision: Reject
#Natur3 Maindee – Heritage – People – Place
Applicant: Maindee Unlimited
Decision: Award grant of £60,379 (100%)