The Wild Isles Community Fund is supporting local communities to take action for nature.
Inspired by David Attenborough’s call to action in the BBC TV Series Wild Isles, Aviva created the fund in partnership with the RSPB and WWF to make it easier for communities across the UK to improve nature in their local area.
The funding is for not-for-profit organisations who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign for projects that protect and restore nature in local communities.
From March 30th 2023 £1’000’000 has been allocated in match funding:
- 2:1 match funding will be applied to all* money raised during your crowdfunding period (each £1 raised will be matched with £2 from the fund).
- *Donations of up to £250 will be matched.
- * The maximum of 2:1 funding a group can receive is £5000 (so if you aim to crowdfund £2500, the Wild Isles fund will match this funding at £5000, giving you an overall budget of £7500 for the project).
Who can apply?
Areas of deprivation ranked 1-5 on the IMD Scale: https://www.fscbiodiversity.uk/imd
They would like to give the money to deprived areas in the UK; therefore groups should only apply if the area they plan to improve or work in is rated 5 or lower (out of 10) on the IMD scale: https://www.fscbiodiversity.uk/imd
Your community cause needs to be focussed on taking action for nature – including promoting nature restoration, community connection to nature, and creating positive benefits for our landscape.
- Charities
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO)
- Community Interest Companies (CIC)
- Companies Limited by Guarantee (CLG)
- Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASC)
- Constituted Community Groups
If your project doesn’t fit the criteria above but you still want to take action, take a look at the Aviva Community Fund which is open to a much wider range of projects. https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/
Groundwork West Midlands are administering this fund, and will host a virtual drop-in on zoom. In this drop-in they will:
- Answer any questions groups may have
- Talk about the grant
- Go through eligibility
- Look through and give feedback on an application
- Help write the application
- (if they’ve applied) hear about how crowdfunding is going or any issues they’re facing
This drop in will be on Wednesday 31st May on Zoom at 10am and will last for around 2 hours – as it is a drop-in groups can come into and leave the call at any time.
If anyone would like to attend please email; Emily.Croft@groundwork.org.uk
More information are on the attachments (below).
