Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund Opens for Applications
The Green Spaces Fund was launched by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham in 2022 and is distributed by the Greater Manchester Environment Trust (GMET). The fund is part of Greater Manchester’s Five-Year Environment Plan, which sets out to create a “clean, carbon-neutral, climate-resilient city”.
Charities and other not-for-profit organisations can apply now to round six of the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund.
Grants of between £2,000 and £40,000 are available for projects that improve green spaces and access to green spaces across Greater Manchester, including but not limited to:
- Enhancing or creating publicly accessible green spaces for people and wildlife and engaging communities with these new spaces.
- Permanently greening streets or turning unused viable land into green community spaces.
- Creating new permanent parklets or pocket parks and engaging people with these new spaces.
- Cleaning up and restoring green spaces, streams, rivers, canals or ponds with local communities.
- The development of green corridors linking parks, community gardens or other green spaces.
- Projects that significantly improve the biodiversity of the area and engage communities with these new spaces.
Funding can be used for material costs, equipment hire, purchase fees, interpretation/signage costs, pathways/access routes costs, volunteer / participants costs, labour costs, publication or engagement materials, project maintenance costs and direct staff costs (up to 15% of the total project costs), post-project maintenance costs (up to 10% of the total project costs), and other costs related to project delivery.
Priority will be given to projects which will benefit communities experiencing inequalities (for example those experiencing social or economic disadvantage) and lack access to green space (for example in areas without a public park nearby or lacking greenery).
Groups who were funded by rounds 3 – 5 of the Green Spaces Fund cannot apply to round 6.
