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Green schemes seek applicants
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One of the NOF Green Spaces award partners is trying to drum up more applications for its unspent funds. The Social, Economic and Environment Development programme (SEED) is an England-only consortium, led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation, which took charge of £13m of lottery funds to distribute to a variety of green projects.
A year after it made its first awards, SEED has allocated just over half of its funds to 210 projects. But the spread of these is very uneven, both geographically (see chart below) and in terms of the pro-gramme’s eight subject themes. At £353,000 each, awards to the eastern region and north-east lag well behind the regional leaders, the south-west (£1.3m) and the north-west (£1.1m).
SEED is also concerned that its sustainable transport theme has attracted only £316,000 in awards, compared to nearly £2m awarded to each of its strands of waste minimisation and environmental education. (Although the Consumption strand has awarded the least cash, SEED does not view this as an effective theme, as it cross-cuts many others.) Examples of sustainable transport projects include: safe routes to schools, stations, local amenities; small infrastructure projects such as cycle parking; car clubs; rural initiatives that provide greater transport choice for local people; cycle skills training. Sustrans, a SEED consortium member, is offering to provide pre-application advice; speak to Jane Crowther, 0117 926 8893.
SEED grants are up to £100,000, but award criteria are different, and tougher, for amounts over £50,000, so check these before applying. The programme also allocates awards of less than £5,000. It has granted 52 so far, and still has more than £250,000 left to give out. The programme closes in December 2004.
More information from www.rsnc.org
SEED Themes, totals
awarded to August 2002
SEED awards by region to August 2002 (% of total
awards)
