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Find out how you can apply for CLA Charitable Trust funding for your cause
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We have granted funding to the following causes and charities:
2023 funding
Alt Valley Community Trust | £2,400
Provide additional staffing to reach new and wider audiences at their environmental garden.
East Liverpool Riding for the Disabled | £2,500
Pony care costs.
GROW, Yorkshire | £2,500
Funding for Grow Gardener programme supporting development and employment for young adults.
Laudato Si Centre/The Salford Diocesan Trust | £2,000
Development of forest school provision.
Prism Youth Project - Prism City Farm | £2,400
Unrestricted funds Prism City Farm.
Susan's Farm | £5,000
Unrestricted funds for working care farm.
The Forest School | £2,000
Purchase of polytunnel and woodland shelter to provide Woodland Adventure lessons to children with additional needs.
Oswin Project | £5,000
Support rehabilitation of prison leavers through work placement and training in forestry, landscape gardening, and grounds maintenance.
Rusland Horizons Trust | £2,500
One-day therapeutic outdoor sessions for Mind in Furness clients.
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust | £2,000
Woodland Wellbeing for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Dimobi Trust | £3,000
Outdoor bushcraft activities for neurodiverse children and young people.
Greenslate Community Farm | £1,100
Renovation of small animal area and funding to train one staff member as a forest school leader.
Living Potential Care Farm | £3,500
Walled garden refurbishment.
Natural Ability | £4,000
Day farming service for people with learning difficulties and autism.
Open Country | £4,000
Funding towards their Wild Wetland Workforce project for people with disabilities to access and enjoy the countryside.
Solidarity Farm CIC | £3,000
Handwashing facility and compost toilet at their farm providing farm-based and outdoor learning for at risk young people.
Adams Activity Ark CIC | £3,777
New toilet facilities to meet the needs of adults with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, and mental health needs supported through a range of activities at a working dairy farm.
Hextol Foundation | £2,750
Equipment for intergenerational horticulture project.
Don Catchment Rivers Trust | £2,000
Range of activities to improve the environment of the river, access to the blue-green space and community engagement.
Hulme Community Garden Centre | £3,000
Creation of biodiverse, "pocket-park" including growing, playing and learning spaces.
Leeds Children's Charity at Lineham Farm | £3,000
Support disadvantaged children through memorable stays, valuable learning experiences, and much-needed respite at the grounds of Lineham Farm.
Randoms Retreat | £2,669
Safe and secure fencing and hedging around our sensory garden, benefiting horticulture and rewilding activities.
Bonterre CIC | £4,720
Smallholding providing support to disadvantaged children.
Educating Kids Outdoors | £2,500
Schools project to introduce children to gardening by providing them with opportunities to plant, harvest and cook their own vegetables.
Kingswood Trust | £3,122
Days in the Wood project for disadvantaged children.
LEAF Education, | £2,075
One farm visit for inner city Birmingham schools.
Malvern Cube Projects | £2,000
To take four groups of 15 young people on a day trip to Back to the Wild CIC.
Martineau Gardens, | £2,500
Therapeutic horticulture placements.
Oak Tree Farm | £3,000
Conversion of old toilet block into shower room and staff room at rural working environment for people with disabilities.
Wyre Community Land Trust | £1,000
Forest school garden project.
Fordhall Community Land Trust | £3,500
Green prescribing activities at their community owned farm.
Let Us Play | £1,160
Outdoor play sessions at Wildside Activity Centre.
Malvern Special Families | £1,990
Accessible visits to the Malvern Hills for young people with disabilities.
Where Next Association | £2,500
Provide training in horticulture and forest school leadership to three team members.
Stonehouse Gang | £3,000
Structural repairs and improvements to property in Wales used for residential visits.
Chatsworth House Trust | £3,000
Refurbishment of Stickyard learning centre - base for outdoor and nature-related learning activities.
Family Action | £1,216
Purchase of cooker and water heater to increase facilities on site at community allotment, garden and orchard.
SPACE | £2,000
SPACE to Grow - allotment project. Supporting neurodiverse children, young people and their families.
Askefield Project Ltd | £5,000
Purchase and installation of log cabin at their care farm.
John Fielding School PTA | £3,000
Establish horticulture area at new school site.
Nurture Project | £2,000
Barn refurbishment at nature and horticulture therapeutic service.
Little Heroes ASD Group | £2,250
Educational farm visits over the summer holidays.
New Leaf Learning | £3,000
Outdoor learning activities for primary school pupils struggling to engage in mainstream learning.
Thornage Hall Independent Living | £5,000
Sensory garden as part of new accommodation.
Essex Agricultural Society | £5,000
Essex schools’ food and farming day.
Doddington Hall, | £3,000
Construction of two outdoor classrooms as part of the Wilder Connections Project.
Providence House Trust | £2,500
Residential trip to Shallowford Farm.
Evergreen Play Association | £750
Purchase of raised beds, compost, seeds and gardening equipment.
Olive Academies Foundation | £3,000
Support for vulnerable young people through specialist outdoor activities and involvement with working farms.
Organic Lea CIC | £3,000
Community food project providing market gardening training and work experience to 16 to 19 year olds.
Chailey Heritage Foundation | £2,000
Running costs of Patchwork Farm.
Royal Isle of White Agricultural Society | £1,000
Farm and food education day for primary school children.
Wye Community Farm | £3,000
Farm club for local schools and special needs settings.
Down Syndrome Development | £1,000
Horticulture activities for young people aged 16 to 25 years.
Jamie’s Farm Lewes | £5,000
Contribution towards their apprenticeship programme.
Sustainable Sussex | £2,000
Funding for equipment and plants at community farm delivering sustainable, conservation focused, nature informed food growing projects.
Young Epilepsy | £3,000
Outdoor and Woodland Learning Programme including horticulture centre and working farm.
Care in the Garden CIC | £2,000
Purchase and install large new polytunnel.
Farmwise Devon | £2,500
Purchase of trailer to enable visits to schools.
Project Food Devon | £2,000
Provide support sessions, with a local farm, for people struggling with mental health.
The APE Project - St. Paul's Adventure Playground | £2,880
Funding for Permaculture worker to support "Food for Thought" project.
The Straw Patch Project CIC | £3,000
Provide nature-based activities to support people of differing ages and needs.
Cann Bridge School | £590
Outdoor classroom day at Saltram.
Lawrence Weston Community Farm | £4,000
Farm Hands project providing weekend placements for 8 to 11 year olds
Paddington Trust Farm, Somerset | £3,500
Core funding towards their youth development programme of residential farm visits.
St. Werburghs City Farm | £3,000
Horticulture and animal care placements for adults with learning disabilities.
Uncle Paul's Chilli Farm | £4,000
Additional educator to increase delivery and number of beneficiaries in their food production and sustainable farming activities for disadvantaged young people.
City of Exeter YMCA | £3,000
Community gardening and horticulture activities to enable young people to obtain the many social and therapeutic mental health and wellbeing benefits.
Dorset Community Action | £2,000
Create a community growing garden to engage disadvantaged young people.
ARK at Edgwood CIC | £3,000
Intergenerational therapeutic land-based day provision supporting people of all ages and varying needs to improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing.
Noah's Ark Children's Venture | £2,000
Outdoor activity programme for children and young people.
Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society | £5,000
Food story days for young people.
Brecon and District Mind | £3,500
Green Minds – social therapeutic horticulture programme.
Nature Child CIC | £4,140
Provision of a Portaloo and transport costs to enable school visits to their outdoor nature classroom.
Tir Coed | £3,250
Delivery of recreational and educational nature engagement activities.
Life at no. 27 CIC | £3,000
Increase delivery of nature based mental health support at their bespoke therapy garden.
Outside Lives | £2,500
Totally Awesome Tuesdays - providing free day long outdoor activities.
Countryside Learning | £7,000
Enable visits to farms and estates providing a variety of educational opportunities designed to connect children with the countryside in a fun and practical way.
Farms for City Children | £7,000
Provide residential visits for children from disadvantaged communities to their three farms: Nethercott House in Devon, Lower Treginnis in Pembrokeshire and Wick Court in Gloucestershire.
Jamie’s Farm | £7,000
Deliver day or residential programmes for disadvantaged young people on their farms in Bath, Hereford, Monmouth, Lewes, Skipton and Waterloo.
The Country Trust | £7,000
Work with farmers and landowners to facilitate visits to working farms and estates - bringing alive the working countryside for children least able to access it.
2022 funding
Active Hope | 2022 | £2,000
Box trailer for transporting outdoor activity equipment.
Activiteens | 2022 | £2,938
Residential trip for disadvantaged young people.
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust | 2022 | £2,500
Creation of new wildlife garden.
Bradgate Park Trust | 2022 | £1,000
Multi-purpose access hub.
British Disabled Angling Association | 2022 | £3,000
Schools fishing project.
Broadlands Riding for the Disabled | 2022 | £3,000
Establish a bursary to fund riding and carriage driving for disabled young people.
Bwlchgwyn Cabin Crew | 2022 | £4,175
Forest school training for staff.
Cae Rhug Holistic Farm | 2022 | £5,000
Accessible growing area and facilities.
Calon Riding for the Disabled | 2022 | £2,100
Purchase of accessible toilet.
Cambridge Past, Present and Future | 2022 | £4,275
Purchase of off-road mobility scooter.
Camp Mohawk | 2022 | £4,000
Outdoor activities for children with additional needs.
Caring for Life | 2022 | £3,000
Conservation pathway renovation.
Catalys-ability CIC | 2022 | £2,500
Rambling club for disadvantaged young people.
Clapton Common Boys Club | 2022 | £3,958
Early years outdoor learning club.
Clynfyw CIC | 2022 | £4,360
Support for learning centre.
Communigrow | 2022 | £5,000
Running costs to support expansion plans.
Countryside Learning | 2022 | £5,000
School visits to country estates.
Cowran Care | 2022 | £5,000
Additional Portacabin.
Daisy Chain Project | 2022 | £5,000
Horticulture activities for people with autism.
Dorset Mind | 2022 | £2,966
Ecotherapy garden.
Emmanuel House | 2022 | £4,000
Gardening and outdoor activities.
Empowering Futures | 2022 | £5,000
Nature therapy sessions.
Eye Moors Woodlands Society | 2022 | £6,000
New footpath to increase accessibility.
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West | 2022 | £1,000
Kingfisher award scheme for primary school children.
Farms for City Children | 2022 | £6,500
Running costs.
Free to be Kids | 2022 | £5,000
Thrive Outside programme for young people.
Greatwood Charity | 2022 | £4,960
Property refurbishment to provide residential accommodation.
Hands of Hope | 2022 | £2,400
Seeds Planted programme for young people.
Happy Kids | 2022 | £3,030
Nature to Nature project.
Holme Farm | 2022 | £3,000
Community allotments and garden development.
Huckleberries Nurture Farm | 2022 | £1,975
Care farm running costs.
Inside Out for Children | 2022 | £5,000
Magical days out for children and young people.
Jamie’s Farm | 2022 | £6,500
Core costs.
Kepplewray Trust | 2022 | £5,000
Support for their Participation Inclusion Fund.
Kids Space | 2022 | £4,000
Planting Hope gardening project.
Lake District Mobility | 2022 | £5,000
Purchase of an all-terrain mobility tramper.
Lancashire Association of Boys and Girls Clubs | 2022 | £1,220
Residential trip for young people.
Led by the Wild CIC | 2022 | £2,500
Hands on conservation and farming visits.
Lindengate | 2022 | £3,000
Nature based activities to support people in need.
Little Ouse Headwaters Project | 2022 | £4,677
Volunteer and visitor wildlife equipment.
Meanwood Valley Urban Farm | 2022 | £4,000
Running costs for inner-city market garden programme.
Misgav | 2022 | £2,500
Buds n Sprouts gardening sessions.
Moor Trees | 2022 | £3,000
Core funding for tree growing.
Reach Learning Disability | 2022 | £5,564
Horticultural activities for adults with learning disabilities.
Ride High | 2022 | £2,000
Horse-riding activities for vulnerable children and young people.
Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt a School Trust | 2022 | £3,540
Chef on the Farm visits for school children.
Strongbones Childrens Charitable Trust | 2022 | £5,940
Accessible gardening packs for children with disabilities.
The Cart Shed | 2022 | £4,560
Woodland activities for young people with mental health difficulties.
The Country Trust | 2022 | £6,500
Running costs.
The Visionaries | 2022 | £4,500
Equipment for weekly residential retreats for young people.
Thomas Theyer Foundation | 2022 | £1,000
Core costs towards their work supporting children and young people.
Tower House Horses | 2022 | £5,000
Equine assisted learning programmes.
Tuppeney Barn | 2022 | £5,000
Delivery costs for education programme.
Veterans’ Growth | 2022 | £3,000
Horticultural support sessions for veterans.
West End Women and Girls’ Centre | 2022 | £5,000
Salary for costs for youth work at their smallholding.
Whirlow Hall Farm Trust | 2022 | £3,000
Education programmes.
Wildgoose Rural Training | 2022 | £6,000
Blacksmithing project.
Winchester Youth Counselling | 2022 | £5,000
Outdoor counselling sessions for young people.
Young Gloucestershire | 2022 | £3,000
Funding towards outdoor youth worker.
Your Park Bristol and Bath | 2022 | £5,000
Connecting people with underused parks and green spaces.