Scottish Government Nature Restoration Fund (NRF)
See our 2022 Helping Nature projects in our Story Map
Nature Restoration Fund
The Scottish Government's Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) is currently supporting more than 65 projects delivering exciting on the ground activity to protect and restore Scotland's biodiversity. Collectively these are worth more than £15m. There has been a tremendous response across Scotland to harness the opportunities provided by the NRF. You can view the Nature Restoration Fund story map to see the range of projects supported across Scotland.
We are currently accepting applications to NRF for development projects and for one year delivery projects from April 2025 (up to one year). NRF is not currently accepting delivery projects with capital spend in financial year 2024/25.
Further funding to support demand for delivery projects may become available and any updates will be posted on this page.
The Fund
The Scottish Government's Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) is a competitive fund, which specifically encourages applicants with projects that restore wildlife and habitats on land and sea and address the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. The NRF is a commitment in the current Programme for Government for multi-year funding as part of overall investment in the natural economy. The £65 million fund, a key part of the Bute House Agreement and multi-year funding across this parliament was announced on Nature Day at COP26 in 2021.
Our 2022 Helping Nature projects are shown in our story map.
In the most recent Transforming Nature round of the Scottish Government's Nature Restoration Fund, 14 projects will share £7.8 million. Read the news release of 4 April 2024.
If you have any questions about the fund, please email [email protected] in the first instance.
Successful projects
Projects granted NRF funding in 2024 -
Projects granted NRF funding in 2023 -
Projects granted NRF funding in 2022 -
- Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) Helping Nature 2022 - successful projects
- Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) Transforming Nature 2022 - successful projects
Projects granted NRF funding in 2021 -
Read our recent news releases -
- Projects share £4m to help nature recover (18 October 2023)
- £7.6m boost to transform Scotland's nature (24 February 2023)
- Nature Restoration Fund (20 July 2022)
- Protecting and enhancing nature (6 June 2022)
Story Map
The Nature Restoration Fund Story Map features projects from the 2022 Helping Nature round which are underway or have completed.
Nature Restoration Fund
An accessible list of the projects from the Story Map can be read at Nature Restoration Fund - Our Projects.
