# Environmental grantmaking charity launched

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/07/18/environmental-grantmaking-charity-launched/
- Published: 2005-07-18T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Several smaller grantmaking organisations have been consolidated and relaunched 
as GrantScape, a new charity which has announced the first grants from its Biodiversity
Challenge Fund.
The fund is intended to enrich biodiversity across England and Wales
with £3.5 million allocated to invest in projects, with a minimum of £250,000 granted
to each project. The grants are funded through the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, with
the money coming from WRG Waste Services Ltd.

In its former guise as Shanks First and other grantmakers, Grantscape has been making
grants since 1997, and has management and administered over £60 million in grants.

Thirty two applications were received from the Biodiversity Challenge Fund 2005,
and nine were successful. The trust says that it is intended that funding will be
made available to continue the Biodiversity Challenge Fund for years to come.

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