# £725k in funding for those who care for the British countryside

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/21/725k-in-funding-for-those-who-care-for-the-british-countryside/
- Published: 2015-09-21T08:35:30+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Prince’s Countryside Fund is offering £725,000 in grants to organisations 
and charities that support people who care for the British countryside.**

Applications for up to £50,000 are being invited.

So far the Fund, set up in 2010, has given £6 million in grants to 135 projects 
across the UK, benefiting 160,000 people.

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Claire Saunders, Director of The Prince’s Countryside Fund, said:

>  “Rural and farming communities are under immense pressure at the moment. We are
> looking for projects which will have a long-term positive impact to help sustain
> our rural areas and encourage enterprise that will help the people who care for
> our countryside and make it tick”.

Funding is available for projects that address one or more of three key themes:

1. thriving rural communities

2. rural livelihoods

3. farmers of the future

Applications for funding from [The Prince’s Countryside Fund](http://princescountrysidefund.org.uk/apply-for-fund/welcome-screen)**
close at ****5pm on 8 October 2015**.

 

## About the Fund

Fund Ambassador Sally Gunnell OBE takes a closer look at some of the projects The
Prince’s Countryside Fund supports:

 

_Photo: [sheep in Cornwall](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-314204060.html) by JButcher
on Shutterstock.com_

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