Community Initiatives
The East Devon Grassroots Environmental Grants Scheme
This scheme has been set up with the specific aim of helping individuals, community groups and parish councils throughout East Devon, to achieve a variety of environmental projects.
We can provide advice, support and grants of up to £500 to take a variety of projects forward, for example hedgerow restoration, tree planting, improvements to wildlife sites and environmental education and interpretation projects.
View a copy of the Grassroots information leaflet as a pdf document (228KB - PDF Help)
To request a copy of the leaflet or details of the application process contact countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk
Projects supported by the Grassroots Environmental Grants Scheme in 2005/2006:
- a grant of £500 to the Devon branch of the British Dragonfly Socity towards the cost of their new inventory of key dragonfly sites in Devon.
- a grant of £500 to the Devon Birdwatching and Preservation Society towards the construction of a new birdwatching hide at the Otter Estuary.
- a grant of £500 to a private landowner in the Woodbury srea towards the establishment of a new traditional woodland
