This £1 million Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund is here to help community groups across the UK to protect and restore nature in their local area.

Whether you’re working together to plant community gardens, support local wildlife or anything else you do to help nature near you, Aviva Community Fund will give you £2 for every £1 you raise, to help your project reach its fundraising target quicker. The Fund has recently announced that new groups that apply now and are accepted will receive £500 to kick-start their projects and up to £15,000 in match funding per project.

To apply for the Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund, your project needs to be focused on taking action for nature in one of the following three ways:

1. Nature restoration – activity that boosts local biodiversity, by protecting or restoring habitats, creating space for nature, connecting green spaces and/or addressing activities that directly impact biodiversity.

2. Nature connectedness and pro-environmental behaviours – action that supports greater connection to nature and promotes pro-environmental behaviours at the community level that will benefit nature.

3. Community cohesion and connection – nature positive activity that encourages collaboration in the local community, by connecting people of diverse backgrounds, generations, and abilities to nature and one another.