Funding and projects
Current funding
Future Routes Fund
Helping young people to improve their local environment, provide more opportunities for them to connect with nature and increase their knowledge of Scottish biodiversity. Take positive action for nature and climate.
Peatland ACTION Fund
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.
Better Places Green Recovery Fund
This fund is closed for applications. 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
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.
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.
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.
Wildlife Management
Sea Eagle Management Scheme
The Sea Eagle Management Scheme extends support for livestock farmers and crofters who suffer impacts across the sea eagle breeding range.
Goose Management Schemes
NatureScot provides funding and administrative support to the schemes and pilots. Each initiative has been developed by a local goose management group, which is chaired by the Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate.
Projects
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.
Scottish Invasive Species Initiative
(SISI) is an exciting 4-year partnership project tackling invasive non-native species alongside rivers and water courses in northern Scotland. We are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, NatureScot and through in-kind support from project partners and volunteers - the total project value is some £3.24M.
All funding and projects listed below are now closed
Other Sources of Funding
- Find funding opportunities on the Funding Scotland website.
- Find the latest Funding Update link in the 'Fundraising support' section of TCV website's 'Supporting Local Projects' page.