It is essential that all potential applicants contact the High Weald team for informal advice about the suitability of your project and how to submit a strong application that meets the Sussex Lund criteria. The Sussex Lund Grants Panel meets to consider applications in October and we will tell you the Panel’s decision by the end of October 2022. Sussex Lund is now closed for new applications. There is no requirement for match funding, however, the Grants Panel decision will take into account your own or others’ commitment to the project in the form of cash, in-kind support or time. Sussex Lund may award larger grants for collaborative projects involving two or more organisations (eg, community groups, charities, parish councils). Ideally you will spend the grant within a year of accepting your grant offer but projects that take longer will be considered. One-off grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available. Sussex Lund is a collaboration between the High Weald AONB Partnership and Lund Trust a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Plantlife can produce a management plan and help with project implementation if your grant application is successful.
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This year Sussex Lund is working in partnership with national charity, Plantlife, to offer free advice and support to applicants seeking funds for wildflower meadow restoration and creation projects. Sussex Lund will consider applications from past applicants for new projects, but not for the continuation and maintenance of previously funded projects. If you’re a private landowner or a for-profit organisation you will need to demonstrate that the landscape and public benefit is greater than any private gain. Sussex Lund is open to community groups, schools, churches, parish councils, charities, and other not-for-profit organisations. View a map of the High Weald AONB boundary. Project locations could include churchyards, school grounds, recreation areas and roadside verges. The programme is focused on the High Weald AONB (which covers parts of West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, and Surrey) and the hamlets, villages and towns on its fringes. Particular weight will be given to projects that support young people, new residents in the area, visitors and those living in poverty – including ‘nature poverty’.
Develop long lasting connections to the landscape.Sussex Lund will now also support projects that improve people’s experience of the High Weald and nature where they live so that residents and visitors: Improve its scenic beauty, such as planting street trees, reducing sign and light pollution, removing or screening eyesores, replacing ‘hard’, man-made boundaries with soft, natural boundaries, clearing litter.Improve its habitats, such as creating ponds and wetland, removing non-native species (for example rhododendron and leylandii), planting new hedges and restoring old ones, planting trees, coppicing woodland, planting orchards, developing more species-rich grassland, putting up bird, bug and bat boxes or creating more wildlife-friendly allotments and greenspace.Sussex Lund will consider supporting any project that makes tangible improvements to the High Weald’s landscape. We recommend you submit an enquiry to find out how this funding could support your project – visit the page and get started. We are now running the new Farming in Protected Landscapes programme, which gives grants of up to £250,000 for projects in England’s AONBs and National Parks. PLEASE NOTE - ENQUIRIES FOR SUSSEX LUND 2022 ARE NOW CLOSED. HOWEVER IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A PROJECT FOR NEXT YEAR, PLEASE DO SUBMIT AN ENQUIRY AND WE'LL BE IN TOUCH AS SOON AS WE ARE ABLE.Īre you a farmer or a landowner? We have another grant programme just for you. Projects could also include community events or initiatives that celebrate and raise awareness of the High Weald landscape and its special qualities. Creating new habitats for dormice and barn owls.Managing wildflower precious grassland and.Hedge-laying to restore historic boundary lines.It also supports projects that help people to experience the landscape and build connections to it. It supports small-scale, practical projects that improve the landscape of the High Weald AONB and the hamlets, villages and towns on its fringes. Sussex Lund is a grant programme of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme.
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