Revenue grants of up to £2,500 are available for registered charities, community groups, schools for grassroots community projects that focus on marine conservation approaches and solutions.
The aim of the Sea-Changers Marine Grant Programme is to support socially beneficial marine conservation approaches and solutions. Sea-Changers has a particular interest in supporting grassroots projects that have the ability to galvanise community action, as well as projects which increase the number of people participating in marine conservation.
The Social Fund aims to achieve one or more of the following objectives:
- To address the root causes of marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK.
- To prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and/or species, and/or
- To add to the body of knowledge about marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK and ways to overcome them.
While the programme may support any of the above three objectives, its unique emphasis is that it will additionally support or enhance participants’ health and well-being and/or deliver benefits for disadvantaged communities through marine conservation activity.
The following revenue grants are available:
- Small Grants up to £500, and
- Main Grants between £501 and £2,500.
Sea-Changers is particularly interested in receiving applications from grassroots projects that:
- Galvanise community action.
- Pilot programmes that, following careful evaluation, might be continued, expanded and/or replicated with additional funding in future years (subject to Sea-Changers securing such funding), and
- Projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation.
Participants might include (please note that this is not an exclusive list):
- Disabled people
- Ex-offenders
- People experiencing mental ill health
- People seeking employment, and/or
- Refugees
Communities might include those that are economically disadvantaged or where there are issues of social cohesion to be addressed.
Further information, guidance and an application form can be found on the Sea-Changers website.
Sea-Changers has two application deadlines each year, on:
- 31 March, and
- 30 September