# £1 million fund opened to protect outdoor recreational space

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/07/03/1m-fund-opened-protect-outdoor-recreational-space/
- Published: 2011-07-03T11:08:19+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

SITA Trust opened the first funding round for its new £1 million grantmaking programme,
the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund. SITA Trust will be making grants of up to £25,000
to support volunteers and in some cases bring in contractors to physically improve
a selected space.

 

The programme is part of the [Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge](http://www.qe2fields.com),
a campaign to protect outdoor recreational spaces in communities all across the 
country as a permanent legacy of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, led by the
Fields in Trust and HRH the Duke of Cambridge.

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Recreation spaces need first to be designated a Queen Elizabeth II Field. Then an
application can be made to SITA Trust’s fund to help volunteers make improvements
to the recreation area.

 

Jools Granville of SITA Trust said: “We anticipate that our grants will support 
volunteers to improve site clearance, planting, fencing to make the field more healthy
and sustainable or improvements to existing community buildings on the site such
as refurbishing or creating better access”.

 

SITA Trust has been providing funding through the Landfill Communities Fund since
1997, and has granted more than £80 million towards projects that enhance communities
and enrich nature.

 

The trust’s delivery partner for the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund is [environmental charity BTCV](http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/whoweare),
which is available to offer support including planning and risk management, volunteer
engagement and management, and training.

 

The first deadline for applications is 25 July 2011 with other funding deadlines
scheduled until late 2012.

 

www.sitatrust.org.uk/qe2-fields

 

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