There are a number of bodies, including local borough and county councils, which you can approach for funding. Large horticultural organisations and seed companies also have an educational remit and will often supply things free of charge. Here are the addresses of a few organisations you may wish to try: For further information with funding, click on the underlined heading.
Waitrose's new giving initiative, Community Matters.
Each trading month, Waitrose shops will have £1,000 to divide between three local organisations.
New The love where you live photo competition for schools
prizes for schools worth a total £1,000 for the best pictures in two categories.
RHS Campaign for School Gardening Alan Titchmarsh Award
Now closed for 2009. Available from summer 2010.
Support for schools in Oldham
Reciproc8 Recycling
A comprehensive range of products, specifically selected to support school gardening initiatives, supplied at no direct cost to the school. Items available include; RHS children’s seed packets, raised bed kits, tree and shrubs packs and a selection of wildlife habitats.
Cabe Education Grants
Six CABE education grants of up to £1,500 are on offer to support imaginative teaching and learning about architecture and the design and use of buildings and public spaces
The Tree Council
Trees for Schools Funds.
Grounds for Optimism
A new award scheme that helps secondary schools plan innovative changes to their grounds.
Appetite for Action
The chance to win £3000 for your school and Sky News at your school for the day.
Tickets for Schools
Tickets for Schools is the innovative new way for schools to raise money whilst enjoying some of the top shows, attractions and events in the country and around the world
Big Lottery Fund
Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes. Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health, education and the environment
Awards for All
We award grants of between £300 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community
Learning through Landscapes
Learning through Landscapes helps schools and early years settings make the most of their outdoor spaces for play and learning.
Yellow Woods Challenge 2008
Schools that recycle the most directories per pupil win cash prizes and for every pound Yellow Pages awards to schools, it gives a matching pound to the Woodland Trust.Around £85,000 will be given to schools in 2008 and an equal amount to the Woodland Trust to support its 'Tree For All' campaign.
English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS)
We work with a whole range of partners from private sector landowners to sports clubs, local communities to national businesses, on a whole host of recreation, regeneration and educational schemes. Forestry Commission England provides support for the creation and management of woodlands through grant aid.
SITA Trust’s Enriching Nature Programme
We're here to support community and environmental improvement projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. Apply on our website and see what projects we have supported across the UK.
The Association of Gardens Trusts
Find out if your local Garden Trust awards grants to schools.
REEP Garden Awards (Religious Education & Environment Programme)
Promoting links between religions and the environment.
Action Earth (CSV Environment)
Each year CSV helps over one million people transform themselves and their communities.
Fones4schools
Fones4Schools has worked with over 7000 schools across the UK and has given away more than £2.2 million in the form of cash and prizes.
Watermark Award (Wessex Water)
This grant scheme helps fund environmental projects in our region to give grants from £100 to £1,500 for financial help when carrying out projects throughout the region.
B&Q – Better Neighbour Grant
The grant offers schools, community groups and charitable organisations to apply to their local store for fuding in the form of product for a project that involves and benefits the local community from £50-£500 worth of retail materials.
B&Q – You Can Do It Community Awards
We help environmental groups, community organisation, school, charity or sports club to be transformed with an award of up to £10,000/€12,000 of B&Q products.
The Conservation Foundation
We provide a means for people in public, private and not-for-profit sectors to collaborate on environmental causes.
Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest Programme
We provide hundreds of local voluntary and community organisations with the key skills, knowledge and resources to respond to the needs of local people, especially those most in need.
School Environment Awards in Norfolk
Shout About Climate Change!
Shout about2009 is about finding solutions to climate change with your local community.
Fundraising for Schools
If your school is seeking funds for a specific project - or just raising funds to aid its improvement and development - then Fundraising for Schools is a must-read publication.
Duchy Originals HDRA Organic Gardens for Schools
The Garden Organic for Schools project is a nationwide campaign which helps children grow vegetables at school, and learn more about their food.
BBC Children in Need
In 2007 the BBC Children in Need Appeal raised over £37 million and for every penny donated to the charity, a penny will go towards projects helping disadvantaged children in the UK.
Biffaward Small Grants Scheme
Biffaward is a multi-million pound fund which awards grants to community and environmental projects across the UK.
Blake Shield BNA Trust Fund
Now closed for 2009.
Black Environment Network (BEN)
BEN is established to promote equality of opportunity with respect to ethnic communities in the preservation protection and development of the environment.
Britannia Building Society Foundation
The Foundation offers grants and donations of between £1,000 and £25,000 to registered charities and schools working within education, particularly numeracy and/or financial literacy.
Cheshire Building Society
Continyou School Community Awards
ContinYou uses learning to tackle inequality and build social inclusion. They work to bring new opportunities for learning to people of all ages, especially those who have gained least from formal education and training.
Creative Partnerships
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and achievements, and opening up more opportunities for their future.
David Bellamy Award
The Ernest Cook Trust
The Ernest Cook Trust is a charitable body charged with the dual role of maintaining the estates given to it by Ernest Cook, and all that they stand for, and giving money to support educational and research projects.
Earthwatch
Earthwatch is an international environmental charity which engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment.
Eco Schools
Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.
Forest Education Initiative
Forest Education Initiative (FEI) aims to increase the understanding and appreciation, particularly among young people, of the environmental, social, and economic potential of trees, woodlands and forests and of the link between the tree and everyday wood products.
Growing Schools
Growing Schools aims to give all children the opportunity to connect with the living environment, whether it is an inner city window box or a vast country estate, a school veg plot or a natural woodland.
National Association of Environmental Education UK
NAEE is a registered charity, set up nearly 40 years ago by a group of teachers and teacher trainers to support the teaching of environmental education in nurseries, schools and other educational institutions. Our services extend to all those concerned with any aspect of education and the natural or built environment.
The Royal Society
The Society provides strategic, authoritative and independent advice on matters of science and mathematics education to government and other opinion-formers. The education programme informs strategy and influences policy by advising and supporting decision-makers at national, regional, local and individual levels.
Schools’ Resource Pack
Recycool
Recycool is the easiest way to recycle and raise money for your school. Recycling for cash not only helps your school raise funds but also benefits the environment too!
Johnson Wax Charitable Trust
The Johnson Wax Ltd Charitable Trust gives grants from £25,000 - £50,000 for projects in the field of children and youth, social welfare, the arts and the environment.
The Conservation Foundation
The Community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community.
The Co-operative Group
Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales
Princes Trust
Funding of up to £5000 to support your project that will benefit your community
Tesco Charity Trust – Community Awards
The Dickie Bird Foundation
Summerfield Charitable Trust
During 2008 the Summerfield Charitable Trust distributed £367,297 in grants to a wide variety of good causes in Gloucestershire
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
CABE has awarded education grants of £1,500 to support imaginative teaching about the design of buildings and public spaces.
Greater London Authority
Community Spaces Fund
Community Spaces is a £50 million open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK as an Award Partner to the Big Lottery Fund and helps community groups create or improve green and open spaces
Local Food Fund
Local Food is a £50 million programme that will distribute lottery grants to a variety of food-related projects to help make locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities
The National Gardening Association
NGA awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs
Address's Only
Jenny Wood Environmental Trust
c/o Susan Wood
36 Oak Village
London
NW5 4QN
The Garfield Weston Foundation
Weston Centre
Bowater House
68 Knightsbridge
London
SW1X 7LQ
The Sainsbury Foundation Family Trust
Michael Pattison
9 Red Lion Court
London, EC4 3EB
Save and Prosper Foundation
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2 Y9A
Rowan Bentall Charitable Trust
Bentalls Plc
Anstee House
Wood Street
Kingston-upon-Thames
KT1 1TS
Dulux Community Projects Scheme
PO Box 343
London
WC2E 8RJ
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
Dr Brian Martin, Director
20 Berkeley Square,
London, W1J 6LH
Information compiled by: Education Department, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB