Funding and projects

Funding

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Scottish Government Nature Restoration Fund 

The Nature Restoration Fund is a competitive fund which supports projects that restore wildlife and habitats on land and sea and address the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Monitoring Equipment Fund

The Community Marine Monitoring Equipment Fund is a dedicated fund aimed specifically at supporting community and local groups with the purchase of marine survey equipment to participate in community-led marine biodiversity surveys and monitoring.

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Investment Ready Nature Scotland (IRNS) Grant Scheme

A grant scheme to help organisations and partnerships develop projects in Scotland that use private investment and market-based mechanisms to help finance the restoration of the environment.

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Peatland ACTION Fund

Peatland ACTION is the project helping to restore damaged peatlands in support of Scotland’s Climate Change Plan outcomes with funding provided by the Scottish Government.
Funding has been expanded to include peatland restoration projects over multiple years.

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Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF)

This fund will support marine environmental enhancement in Scotland. Voluntary donations from marine users and individuals will provide grants to enhance the natural capital of our seas and coasts. 

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Better Places Green Recovery Fund

This fund is closed for applications. For successful projects, it is providing support for the employment of seasonal rangers and visitor operations posts to engage with the public and help manage visitor numbers, pressures and behaviours in “hot spot” locations across Scotland.

Rural Funding and Support

Scotland's Natural Capital Programme - stock farm

Farming with nature

The purpose of these pilots for is to inform what future rural support outside of the Common Agricultural Policy might look like. 

Rural support could be developed to contribute to transformative land use change in Scotland, by restoring nature and reducing our country’s contribution to climate change. 

Mixed woodland and forestry near Pitlochry, Perthshire © Lorne Gill/SNH. For information on reproduction rights contact the Scottish Natural Heritage Image Library on Tel. 01738 444177 or www.nature.scot

SRDP

Within Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP), the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS) promotes land management that protects and enhances Scotland's natural heritage, improves water quality, manages flood risk, and helps mitigate and adapt to climate change; public access projects have also been funded. SRDP also includes the Forestry Grant Scheme.
Orchids growing at Weem meadow SSSI near Aberfeldy. July 2016.©Lorne Gill/SNH. For information on reproduction rights contact the Scottish Natural Heritage Image Library on Tel. 01738 444177 or www.nature.scot

Management Agreements

A management agreement (MA) involves NatureScot making payments to a land manager in return for an agreed programme of work. We typically offer MAs for Natura sites and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

Projects

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Species on the Edge (SotE)

Species on the Edge is a partnership of NatureScot and seven nature conservation charities, all dedicated to improving the fortunes of 40 priority species found along Scotland's coast and islands.

We work with communities, local initiatives and land managers to tackle species recovery work.

All funding and projects listed below are now closed

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Green Infrastructure Strategic Intervention

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Working with Rivers Training Placement Scheme

School children on a nature walk on the beach

Plunge in! The Coasts and Waters Community Fund

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Future Routes Fund

School children on a ranger led nature walk near Carmunnock cemetery, Glasgow as part of biodiversity week.

Outdoor Learning in Nature (OLIN) Fund

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Biodiversity Challenge Fund (BCF)

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Natural and Cultural Heritage Fund

Other Sources of Funding