# Grow Wild funding now available for 2018

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/12/12/grow-wild-funding-now-available-2018/
- Published: 2017-12-12T10:30:35+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Lemos&Crane has again partnered with Grow Wild UK, led by the Royal Botanical 
Gardens at Kew to offer community groups funding to transform their local spaces.**

 

Applications are now open, with [Grow Wild](https://www.growwilduk.com/)‘s community
grants for 2018 offering funding of £2,000 or £4,000 to groups and projects that:

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 * Stand out from the crowd
 * Focus on UK native wildflowers, plants and/or fungi, highlighting the importance
   of these species for the environment, and for quality of life
 * Will engage one or more of these groups: Young people aged 12-18, students and
   young people aged 18-25, people living in urban areas, people experiencing hardship
   and reduced access to services, adults that are less engaged with their community
   and environmental activities
 * Will encourage large-scale community involvement, ideally in the hundreds.
 * Will deliver the project in a space or location that is accessible to the general
   public

 

The partnership has already seen thousands of seed kits for wild flowers, as well
as many small grants, distributed to community and other organisations, including
prisons, social housing, supported housing and schools, in Lemos&Crane’s network.
Previous projects to have benefitted include Beateroute Arts [‘Listen! What Grows Here’](https://www.growwilduk.com/blog/2017/08/16/listen-what-grows-here),
which engaged young people aged 8-12 and the wider community in UK native fungi 
through art, music and fashion, and The Comfrey Project’s [‘Foraging Hedgerow’ ](https://www.growwilduk.com/blog/2016/11/17/wildflower-project-gives-refugees-hope-and-friendly-environment)
in Gateshead, which brought refugees and asylum seekers together with the broader
community in a project that included building a foraging hedge and sowing and growing
native wildflowers and plants.

 

The deadline for entries is **15 January**. [More information is available](https://www.growwilduk.com/project-funding)
on the Grow Wild site.

 * **[Allchurches Trust grants totalled biggest ever £15.6 million in 2017](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/05/allchurches-trust-grants-totalled-biggest-ever-2017/)**(
   5 February 2018)
 * **[One month left to apply for Greenham Trust community project funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/19/one-month-left-apply-greenham-trust-community-project-funding/)**(
   19 February 2018)
 * **[Subsidised training fund for UK charities open for applications](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/03/02/subsidised-training-fund-uk-charities-open-applications/)**(
   2 March 2018)

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