£1m QEII Fields Fund now open for applications

Thursday 30 June 2011

 On July 1st 2011, SITA Trust opened the first funding round for its latest grant making programme, the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Fund.

The programme is part of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge, a fantastic campaign to protect 2012 outdoor recreational spaces in communities all across the country as a permanent living legacy of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, led by the Fields in Trust and HRH the Duke of Cambridge.

Once an area has been designated a Queen Elizabeth II Field an application can be made to SITA Trust’s £1 million fund to help volunteers make improvements to the recreation area.

SITA Trust can award grants of up to £25,000 to support volunteers and in some cases bring in contractors to physically improve a QEII Field.  We anticipate that our grants will support volunteers to  improve site clearance, planting, fencing to make the field more healthy and sustainable or improvements to existing community buildings on the site such as refurbishing or creating better access.
  
Alison Moore- Gwyn, CEO of Fields in Trust said ‘The Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge is such an exciting programme for Fields in Trust to be working on and we are very grateful to have the full support of The Duke of Cambridge as Patron of the Challenge. Permanently protecting outdoor recreational spaces is the very core of what we do for the benefit of people living in cities, towns and villages throughout the country and so we’re delighted that through our partnership with SITA Trust the Queen Elizabeth II Fields will also have the chance to benefit from funding. This generous fund will help communities in England and Wales to improve their fields in a whole range of ways and we’re looking forward to seeing some of the colourful projects brought to life.’
 
For more information on this funding programme please click here