Enjoying Green Spaces and the Natural Environment - Approved Grants

Alive and Kicking 

£8,000 over one year to Alive & Kicking to create a network of community ball libraries across the City of London’s green spaces.

Capital Kids Cricket 

£7,500 over one year for women and girl's cricket and engagement in West Ham Park.

Friends of City Gardens

£13,120 over one year towards enhancing, monitoring and recording biodiversity to support the City's Biodiversity Strategy; outreach to and training of new/current volunteers; supporting vulnerable groups.

Highams Park Community CIC

£10,000 over one year for materials, equipment, and training to continue conservation work in Higham Park as well as at the Lops and Walthamstow Forest.

Lower Mole Countryside Trust 

£10,000 over one year to enhance climate resilience at Ashtead Common NNR by widening firebreaks to reduce the likelihood of damaging wildfires spreading.

Tinder Sticks CIC 

£14,281 over one year towards a series of nature connection events delivered across Epping Forest, which will connect communities to green spaces and improve mental health as well as well-being.

Umoja Health Forum

£14,500 over two years (£10,500; £4,500) funding a programme of activities on Hampstead Heath to boost the mental and physical wellbeing of the local Black African community.

Aldersbrook Families Association 

£10,100 over one year for a Natural Woodland Play Area - the boundary safety fence, self-closing entrance gate, emergency access gage, double litter bin, benches, entrance signage, safety signage and play area disclaimer and age advice signage - in Wanstead Park.

Capital Kids Cricket 

£12,134 over one year towards cricket, educational and exercise activities with girls and their families in West Ham Park.

Epping Forest Conservation Volunteers 

£3,300 towards the purchase of tree removing tools to be used over a two-year period.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association 

£7,500 over one year to support the overall costs of improvements to the Hampstead Heath Extension Playground.

London Natural History Society 

£8,900 over 2.5-year to map and monitor the flora, fungi, and lichens of a sample of representative habitats in Hampstead Heath.

People's Trust for Endangered Species 

£13,400 over three years towards mapping, recording and DNA analysis of crab apple trees on City of London Corporation green spaces.

Queens Crescent Community Association 

£11,066 over two years to deliver GO Heath! project activities to encourage women and children from the BAME communities of Gospel Oak to visit Hampstead Heath.

Tinder Sticks CIC

£9,900 over one year for the project costs to deliver wellbeing nature connection activities in Epping Forests.

Buckinghamshire Fungus Group

£9,700 over three years towards the study of fungal biodiversity in Burnham Beeches and Stoke Common through specimen collection and analysis.

Downlands Trust

£14,988 over one year towards the cost of volunteer task days and the oversight of grazing on the City Common’s over a 12-month period. The work will be contracted to the Downlands Partnership and monitored and managed by the Downlands Trust.

Epping Forest Heritage Trust

£14,053 over one year towards the design, purchase and installation of signage for the 2021 Epping Forest Centenary Walk and any related marketing and activity costs.

Friends of City Gardens

£11,800 over one year towards the support of volunteer tasks in City gardens completed according to the City of London’s Biodiversity Strategy.

Heritage of London Trust Ltd

£14,000 over one year to support the cost of Phase Two of the Wanstead Grotto improvement project.

Rare Breeds Survival Trust

£14,927 over one year to purchase GPS cattle collars, the necessary infrastructure to support the new cattle management technology and RBST’s management costs.

The Friends of Wanstead Park

£4,100 over one year towards the purchase of directional signage to be installed in Wanstead Park.

Capital Kids Cricket

£14,875 over one year for sessional coaches and associated project costs to run women's and girl's physical activities in West Ham Park.

Downlands Trust

£14,988 over one year towards the cost of volunteer task days and the oversight of grazing on the City Commons. The work will be contracted to the Downlands Partnership and monitored and managed by the Downlands Trust.

Frames Of Mind Ltd

£14,959 over one year towards the costs of delivering From the Ground Up, connecting sheltered housing elders with West Ham Park to inspire creative material for QR code installation.

Friends of Farthing Downs & Happy Valley

£6,200 over one year towards the costs of improving a nature walk across Farthing Downs and Happy Valley.

Friends of Stoke Common (FoSC)

£6,945 over one year to support the costs of replacing equipment including a Trailer, Saws, Gloves and T-shirts for the Friends of Stoke Common volunteers.

Friends of West Ham Park

£14,550 over one year towards the costs of materials, signage, marketing and craft supplies for a permanent exhibition about Dr John Fothergill, to be mounted at West Ham Park, and associated events. 

Heath Hands

£10,000 over two years (£7,500; £2,500) to support the continued running costs of the Community Heath Project. Funding for year two is conditional on the Charity confirming a contribution from their reserves or agreed match funding for the project.

Love North Chingford CIC

£2,645 over one year for a volunteer programme of planting on Chingford Green Park, including planting and educational sessions for local children.

Lower Mole Countryside Trust

£15,000 over three years for the implementation of the Rye Brook Restoration Project on Ashtead Common by the Lower Mole Partnership. 

Plantlife International

£12,374 over one year to support the staffing, consultant and associated costs to deliver a project that will increase knowledge and plan for habitat restoration for vascular plant, lichen and bryophyte interest in the wider Burnham Beeches landscape.

Tinder Sticks CIC

£5,176 over one year to fund the Across the Road project engaging patients and staff from Whipps Cross Hospital with Epping Forest.