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Volunteering Matters Action Earth 2026 Grants
Created: 30/04/2026News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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Action Earth provides small grants to support community-led environmental action across Scotland, helping people respond to the climate and nature crisis.
Delivered by Volunteering Matters and supported by the National Lottery Community Fund and NatureScot, Action Earth provides grants of up to £250 for volunteer-led projects in towns, cities and built-up areas. These grants support people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to take part in outdoor activities that enhance local green spaces and biodiversity.
They prioritise applications from volunteer groups that do any of the following:
- Work in areas where there is substantial social and/or economic deprivation
- Improve and develop the health and wellbeing of their local community
- Involve disabled people, vulnerable people and those at risk of exclusion
- Encourage and involve people aged 26 or under in practical outdoor conservation
Eligibility
- The project must involve practical outdoor activity by volunteers in Scotland. They should make environmental improvements to urban green spaces – planting projects, wildlife habitat creation and greenspace restoration or improvements.
- A minimum of 15 volunteers (and preferably more) must be involved in the project, each giving at least 5 hours of volunteering time
- Sites to be worked on must be accessible to the general public
- Plants, tools, materials and some volunteer expenses can be claimed. Our strong recommendation is to plant native species only.
How to apply
Click here to apply on their website.
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