Nature Networks Fund (round three) decisions, February 2024
Nature Networks Fund (round 3)
This fund aims to strengthen the resilience of Wales’ network of protected land and marine sites, building capacity to strengthen and upscale future delivery for nature, and actively encouraging community engagement.
Schedule of Decisions
#NNF3 Gregynog – Welcome Home to Nature
Applicant: The Gregynog Trust
Decision: Award grant of £246,966 (100%)
#NNF3 Bellflowers and Butterflies – Restoring Nature Connections in Ceredigion
Applicant: The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
Decision: Award grant of £245,663 (100%)
#NNF3 Golygfa Gwydyr Community Forest
Applicant: Golygfa Gwydyr Limited
Decision: Award grant of £177,867 (100%)
#NNF3 Future resilience for natural assets
Applicant: Gwent Wildlife Trust Ltd.
Decision: Award grant of £249,985 (100%)
#NNF3 – Water Vole Reintroduction Feasibility Study – Wentlooge Levels
Applicant: Gwent Wildlife Trust Ltd.
Decision: Award grant of £106,459 (100%)
#NNF3 Wales Marsh Fritillary Recovery Partnership
Applicant: Butterfly Conservation
Decision: Award grant of £174,023 (100%)
#NNF3: Accessible Nature
Applicant: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited
Decision: Award grant of £248,323 (100%)
#NNF3 Rockpool Guardians
Applicant: Beach Academy CIC
Decision: Award grant of £67,034 (100%)
#NNF3 Coal Spoil Connections
Applicant: Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
Decision: Award grant of £213,730 (100%)
#NNF3 Green Finance Wales
Applicant: Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Decision: Award grant of £143,912 (100%)
#NNF3 Grassland Communities
Applicant: Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £248,439 (100%)
#NNF3 Mynydd Waun Fawr Landscape Strategy
Applicant: Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £71,723 (100%)
#NNF3 Resilient Shores: Fostering Community Engagement and Environmental Learning for the Protection of Wales' Marine and Coastal Heritage
Applicant: Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum Community Interest Company
Decision: Award grant of £222,217 (96.15%)
#NNF3 Llyn Brenig Conservation Grazing Pilot Project
Applicant: Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig
Decision: Award grant of £72,211 (100%)
#NNF3 Capacity Building – Dolphin Diet Detectives: Unveiling Dolphin Diets and Engaging Communities
Applicant: The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited
Decision: Award grant of £249,306 (100%)
#NNF3 Bumblebees of North-West Wales
Applicant: Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Prosiect mamaliaid morol Enlli – Cysylltu pobl â'r môr / Bardsey marine mammal project – Connecting people with the sea
Applicant: Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory
Decision: Award grant of £219,517 (100%)
#NNF3 Moelyci SSSI: Diversification of grazing to enhance habitats
Applicant: Snowdonia Donkeys
Decision: Award grant of £97,907 (100%)
#NNF3 Restoration for rare arable plants
Applicant: Fieldwork Studio CIC
Decision: Award grant of £177,136 (98.33%)
#NNF3 Sea Trout River Enhancement and Management (STREAM) Project
Applicant: West Wales Rivers Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Social Feasibility Assessment for the reintroduction of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) to Wales
Applicant: The Vincent Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £94,307 (90.41%)
#NNF3 Project SIARC – Assessing the importance and connectivity of protected habitat features in Pen Llŷn a'r Sarnau SAC for the Critically Endangered tope
Applicant: The Zoological Society of London
Decision: Award grant of £249,877 (100%)
#NNF3 Camlas Maldwyn
Applicant: Canal and River Trust
Decision: Award grant of £248,975 (100%)
#NNF3 Priority Plants on SSSIs in Wales
Applicant: Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
Decision: Award grant of £152,096.00 (100%)
#NNF3 Mae Natur yn Cyfri! / Nature Counts!
Applicant: North Wales Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £249,875 (100%)
#NNF3 Menter Fforest Mor: Sea Forest Initiative Wales
Applicant: Plant Ecology Beyond Land (PEBL) CIC
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Saving rare invertebrates of the River Dee
Applicant: Welsh Dee Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Gilfach Nature Reserve – Climate adaptation and resilience through nature's restoration
Applicant: Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Limited
Decision: Award grant of £221,141 (100%)
#NNF3 Facilitating Accelerated Nature Networks for Seagrass (FANNS)
Applicant: Project Seagrass
Decision: Award grant of £248,008 (85.22%)
#NNF3 Elenydd Peatland Partnership
Applicant: The Welsh Water Elan Trust
Decision: Award grant of £190,000 (100%)
#NNF3 Building nature networks & stimulating communities
Applicant: Ciliau partnership 1
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Protecting Shad, Salmon and Sea Trout (PSST)
Applicant: Swansea University
Decision: Award grant of £249,807 (100%)
#NNF3 – Growing Resilience: A National Nature Reserve for the future
Applicant: The National Botanic Garden of Wales
Decision: Award grant of £249,986.00 (100%)
#NNF3 Cysylltu Natur 25x25 / Connecting Nature 25x25
Applicant: Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Decision: Award grant of £244,450 (98%)
#NNF3 Heathland Social Enterprise
Applicant: Cwm Arian Renewable Energy Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £85,788 (100%)
#NNF3 Welsh Yellowhammer Project – restoring arable biodiversity / Prosiect Bras Melyn Cymru – adfer bioamrywiaeth tir ar
Applicant: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Upstream Thinking to Manage INNS
Applicant: Aberaeron Restoration Limited
Decision: Award grant of 75,822 (100%)
#NNF3 Cudyll Cymru / Raptor Monitoring Wales
Applicant: BTO Cymru
Decision: Award grant of £249,270.00 (100%)
#NNF3 Sustaining the Uplands of North East Wales for Black Grouse / Cynnal ucheldiroedd gogledd ddwyrain Cymru ar gyfer y Rugiar ddu
Applicant: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Decision: Award grant of £244,059 (100%)
#NNF3 Lampeter UWTSD SSSI Restoration
Applicant: University Of Wales Trinity St. David
Decision: Award grant of £245,886 (100%)
#NNF3 Enriching Species and Habitats
Applicant: The Welsh Water Elan Trust
Decision: Award grant of £103,450 (100%)
#NNF3 Connecting Conwy: a plan for seascape scale recovery of marine habitats in Conwy Bay and the Menai Strait
Applicant: Zoological Society of London
Decision: Award grant of £236,556 (100%)
#NNF3 Coedwigoedd Glaw Gwydn yng Nghymru / Resilient Welsh Rainforests
Applicant: Plantlife International – the wild plant conservation charity
Decision: Award grant of £197,172 (75%)
#NNF3 Understanding nutrient pollution from sediment cores to reverse declining biodiversity in Milford Haven Waterway and Western Cleddau River
Applicant: United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Creaduriaid Cudd y Creuddyn / Cryptic Creatures of the Creuddyn
Applicant: Conwy County Borough Council
Decision: Award grant of £248,348 (100%)
#NNF3 Llif Dyfi Flows
Applicant: Partneriaeth Eco Dyffryn Dyfi / Eco Valley Partnership
Decision: Reject
#NNF3 Adfer Dyfi Restore 1 (revenue)
Applicant: Partneriaeth Pennal Limited
Decision: Award grant of £249,200 (100%)
#NNF3 Garden Escapers! North West Wales Development Project
Applicant: North Wales Wildlife Trust
Decision: Award grant of £250,000 (92.96%)
#NNF3 Newid Llanw: llawlyfr cymunedol ar gyfer arfordir gwydn / Changing Tides: a community guide to a resilient coast
Applicant: RSPB Cymru
Decision: Award grant of £212,794 (100%)
#NNF3 Adfer Dyfi Restore 2 (capital)
Applicant: Partneriaeth Pennal Limited
Decision: Award grant of £238,800 (100%)
#NNF3 Menai Strait Forum: Interconnecting the Eryri Uplands with Menai Strait Estuarine Waters for Ecological Protection
Applicant: North Wales Rivers Trust Ltd
Decision: Reject