Community Environment Fund

Buglife, The Midlands Crayfish Partnership (Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell Wolverhampton) - £59,430 to map existing native and non-native crayfish populations, coordinate conservation efforts, and work with the Sealife Centre in Birmingham on a breeding programme to boost declining numbers of native species. The project will also include hosting walks, talks, workshops and other family activities to raise awareness of how crayfish help to maintain healthy watercourses and as a food source for fish, birds and mammals.

Make Good Arts, Sandwell – £13,320 to grow its Repair and Share project by providing sewing machines and other resources in even more community venues to help local people to repair, share and remake clothing, saving them money and diverting hundreds of items of clothing away from landfill.

Carriers of Hope, Coventry - £25,000 to continue its What Comes Around, Goes Around project by providing hundreds more people experiencing poverty, primarily asylum seekers, refugees and Roma people from Eastern Europe, with essential items such as baby equipment, furniture, electrical items, bikes and toys, reusing unwanted items that would otherwise be destined for landfill. 

ReBuild Site CIC, Wolverhampton - £100,000 to set up the region’s first reuse hub to take surplus materials from construction sites, builders' merchants, wholesalers and others in the supply chain to sell them on to local small traders, DIYers, gardeners and crafters at a substantially discounted cost, diverting it away from landfill.

The Active Wellbeing Society, Birmingham - £99,544 to expand its Share Shack project with repair and skill workshops at its sites across the city, helping local people to fix their own broken items such as electrical equipment and clothing – saving them from landfill.

All Saints’ Action Network, Wolverhampton - £25,000 to open a Repair Café at its community hub and wood recycling centre. 

Birmingham TreePeople - £12,765 grant to train up new volunteers to accelerate its survey of the city’s 70,000 street trees to identify those in a poor condition or at the end of their natural life so they can be quickly replaced.

Holyhead Road Allotments, Coventry - £18,707 to transform an area of the site that has become water-logged due to climate change, using more sustainable practices such as habitat creation, water conservation, raised beds alongside climate adaptation workshops for allotments holders and local gardeners.

Canal and River Trust - £100,000 to expand its Wild in Birmingham project to improve the natural environment with communities around sections of waterway in Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 

Wildside Activity Centre, Wolverhampton - £24,400 to run more hands-on activities in its unique natural learning environment to teach school-age children about the natural world, the importance of conservation and environmental issues, and become ambassadors for positive environmental change. 

Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust - £99,605 for Dudley’s Path to Nature Recovery project to help connect more people in Dudley and Sandwell to nature by creating new walking routes and improving wildlife habitats through the Black Country Geo Park. 

The LEAF Project (Linking Environment And Farming) - £25,000 to run farm visits and workshops for 1,200 more children at inner city schools and youth groups across Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Sandwell to improve their understanding of where food comes from and how it is produced, helping them to become conscious consumers in the future. 

Norton Hall Children and Family, Birmingham - £24,825 to create a new allotment on an unused balcony at the Dolphin Women’s Centre in Ward End Park and to make improvements in the Forest School area. 

Woodgate Valley Urban Farm, Birmingham - £15,100 to provide new facilities and opportunities for more local people to get involved in its practical nature-based activities. 

Saathi House, Aston, – £20,125 to train 90 local women as environment champions to promote sustainable living practices, such as waste reduction, efficient cooking, recycling, and energy conservation, within their families and communities. 

Caldmore Village Festival, Walsall – £24,995 to evolve Caldmore Community Garden into a nature, environment and climate change education centre, hosting gardening, conservation, climate change, and environmental sustainability workshops, events and other activities to help local people to reduce their own waste, carbon emissions and energy bills by becoming more energy efficient.

Birmingham County Football Association - £25,000 to train up 10 football climate champions and put 500 football club volunteers through Carbon Literacy for Grassroots Football training to help them reduce waste and lower their energy usage and bills.