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Environment and conservation grants across the UK

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for environment and conservation.

347grants
£21.7mtotal awarded
£10kmedian grant
46funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to environment and conservation charities in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Wolfson Foundation20£7.1m£150k
Comic Relief2£2.1m£1.1m
London Marathon Foundation2£2m£1m
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation14£1.9m£112k
John Lyon's Charity4£1.6m£150k
John Ellerman Foundation9£1.4m£150k
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust5£764k£162k
The Ballinger Charitable Trust12£553k£44k
Garfield Weston Foundation13£535k£40k
The Dulverton Trust8£529k£55k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Arts and HumanitiesWolfson Foundation132018 to 202610 Jun 2026
Preservation and ConservationThe Pilgrim Trust92023, 2024, 202519 Dec 2025
Donor DirectedQuartet Community Foundation72023 to 20265 Feb 2026
Main GrantEsmée Fairbairn Foundation62019 to 20262 Sept 2026
Donor FundsCommunity Foundation for Surrey62019 to 202612 Jun 2026
TASK by TrusteeEsmée Fairbairn Foundation62020 to 202628 May 2026
DCC Food Fuel and MoreDevon Community Foundation62022 to 20265 Feb 2026
EnvironmentGarfield Weston Foundation52017 to 202620 Apr 2026
Colleagues of Barclays Northampton 'Say No To Poverty'Northamptonshire Community Foundation42025, 20261 Sept 2026
Tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and nature lossJohn Ellerman Foundation42025, 202630 Jul 2026

Open government schemes charities can apply for

10 open schemes on Find a Grant in related sectors (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Schools Grant SchemeDepartment for Education (DfE)£10k to £1m9 Nov 2026
Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026 (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)£100k to £200k12 Nov 2026
Unlocking Space for Business Grant Call: Environmental Intelligence and EmissionsDepartment for Science Innovation and Technology£1 to £400k11 Dec 2026
Advancing solutions for critical mineral production and recycling (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, NERC, Innovate UK, AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC£1 to £305k7 Jan 2027
Forest Creation GrantThe National Forest Company, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£1,500 to £1m1 Feb 2027

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from A B Charitable Trust, Benefact Trust, CHK Foundation, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, Charles Hayward Foundation, Cheshire Community Foundation, Comic Relief, Community Foundation North East, Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside, Devon Community Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Forever Manchester, Freemasons’ Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, Herefordshire Community Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, John Lyon's Charity, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Leeds Community Foundation, London Marathon Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Point North, Quartet Community Foundation, Rank Foundation, The Ballinger Charitable Trust, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, The Foyle Foundation, The Greggs Foundation, The Leathersellers' Foundation, The Veterans' Foundation, Trust For London, Virgin Money Foundation, Westminster Foundation, Wolfson Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Community Foundation for Surrey, The Pilgrim Trust: Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Architectural Heritage Fund, Barnwood Trust, Community Foundation for Calderdale, Oxfordshire Community Foundation: Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.