# Postcode Local Trust offers £1.5 million ‘grass roots’ funding pot

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/09/postcode-local-trust-offers-1-5m-grass-roots-funding-pot/
- Published: 2016-09-09T09:04:15+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Funding for environmental projects is available for the second time this year 
from the [Postcode Local Trust](http://www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk/news/article/funding-for-the-grass-roots).**

£1.5m is available, with the Trust seeking projects that will improve local ecology
and habitats, encourage bio-diversity and benefit the wider environment. Groups 
can apply for funding ranging from £500 – £20,000.

In the previous funding round at the beginning of 2016, almost 200 projects receive
an award from players. Beneficiaries included [Buglife](https://www.buglife.org.uk/),
which received £17,337 for its North Lanarkshire’s Buzzing project to help transform
four hectares of amenity grassland into diverse meadows using native species of 
wildflower. [Vauxhall City Farm](http://vauxhallcityfarm.org/) also received £14,840
to enable it to purchase the necessary resources to run over 200 farm workshops.

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This round of funding opened for applications on 1st September and will remain open
until 5pm on 30^(th) September. Applicants must visit the Trust’s [Applying for a Grant page](http://www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk/applying-for-a-grant)
and fill in an online form.

Rebecca Whitley, trust manager of Postcode Local Trust, said:

> “We had such an amazing response to the first funding round and it’s incredible
> to think that players of People’s Postcode Lottery have supported almost 200 projects
> in this category already. We really hope to repeat the success of the previous
> round and we’d love to hear from the many grassroots initiatives that have exciting
> projects up their sleeves that need support.”

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