Deadline: 26 April 2024
What do bird boxes, bee hotels, and nature experts all have in common? They’re all available for free as part of the Local School Nature Grants programme, supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery.
Open to schools and early years settings in England, Scotland, and Wales, this outdoor learning grant fund has two elements – £500 of outdoor equipment chosen from a catalogue of over 100 items, and an outdoor learning training course for your staff.
Product Catalogue
- With a Local School Nature Grant, you’ll have a budget of £500 to mix and match on items from the product catalogue. They offer a wide variety of products to appeal to a broad range of age groups and projects. All the products are delivered direct to you from the partner suppliers.
Training Catalogue
- You’ll be able to select an outdoor learning training session from a range of themes. A member of the skilled team will then deliver an engaging session for your staff for up to half a day. You will be offered a choice of dates, but they do ask that the training is delivered within the funding round.
Eligibility
- The grants are available to all schools and early years settings in England, Scotland, and Wales only. Early years settings must employ at least five staff and have a dedicated building, either stand alone or part of a school. School nurseries and the attached school will be classed as one setting.
- They cannot fund outside of the geographical limits. Individual childminders are not eligible to apply. If you have previously been awarded a Local School Nature Grant, you cannot apply again.
- They will be issuing grants to around 576 schools and pre-school settings.
Details
- The training will take place at your own site.
- You will have a choice of themes for the training session.
- The training will be outdoors and interactive (the preference), or delivered remotely online.
- Up to 30 staff can take part, although up to 15 (including the trainer) is preferred.
- Any under-spend will be used to help further schools partake in the project and cannot be reimbursed to the school.
- Schools are welcome to select the same item multiple times, as long as the £500 budget is not exceeded.
- Items will be delivered to your site within three months of a successful application.
For more information, visit Learning through Landscapes.
