Funding partners

Red squirrel

Red squirrel (c) Christine Cassidy

Funding partners

We would like to thank the following funding partners for helping us to deliver a huge variety of projects to benefit wildlife and people.

                              Funder

           Specific project/s funded

National Lottery Heritage Fund

  • Nextdoor Nature (Funded in partnership with the Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022 and The Wildlife Trusts) 
  • Digital and Marketing Officer - Department of Communities' Covid Recovery Programme administrated by National Lottery Heritage fund

  • New to Nature - Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund through Groundwork UK

National Lottery Community Fund

  • Our Wild Youth 

  • Our People Our Places 

Esmee Fairbairn

  • Northern Ireland Marine Task Force (in lead partnership with RSPB)

  •  Core Funding for Ulster Wildlife’s Work on Land and Sea

  • Peatland Restoration

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland Environment Agency)

  • Nature Recovery Networks for Priority Habitats and Species

  • Accelerating Blue Recovery

  • Accelerating Peatland Restoration - Delivery through Collaboration

  • Environmental Farming Scheme

  • MOD Conservation Officer

Department of Communities

  • Digital and Marketing Officer - Covid Recovery Programme administrated by National Lottery Heritage Fund

Garfield Weston Foundation
  •  Priority Species in Northern Ireland

Ministry of Defence

  • MOD Conservation Officer

Ards and North Down Borough Council
  • Balloo Nature Reserve