Local Places for Nature Funding

Local Places for Nature funding is available through Community Wildlife Projects and Neighbourhood Nature

Community Wildlife Grants

Community Wildlife Grants are available to support projects from local organisations and community groups to maintain and enhance biodiversity to create nature on your doorstep, engaging communities to create and enhance places for nature.

Neighbourhood Nature

Neighbourhood Nature is our small project scheme to provide specific items to enhance the biodiversity value of community space. This is limited to plants and animal homes up to a total value of £1000.

For both please see the information below

• Community Wildlife Grants

Applications for our 2026-27 Local Places for Nature Community Wildlife Grants are now open. Guidance Notes and the Application Form are available at the bottom of this page.

If you have a project in mind please email biodiversity@powys.gov.uk with your idea.

The aim of Local Places for Nature is to create nature on your doorstep, engaging communities to create and enhance places for nature.

Local Places for Nature is a bottom-up programme with a focus on urban areas, particularly areas of deprivation and/or those with limited access to nature.

The Powys Nature Partnership is offering partners, organisations, and services the chance to bid for grant funding to create local places for nature in communities.

The fund is open to: 

• community groups 
• voluntary organisations 
• charities and other third sector organisations 
• public sector organisations including Town and Community Councils. 

Projects must involve at least one of the following:

• Increase wildflower planting.
• Increase community food growing opportunities.
• Increase local tree planting.
• Create dense and diverse woodlands the size of a tennis court.
• Create habitats at rail stations and transport interchanges.
• Encourage wildflowers and improve biodiversity by changing mowing practices.
• Create sensory gardens.
• Reduce the use of pesticides.
• Increase public access to drinking water.
• Restore or create community orchards.

This is a reimbursement grant, so funding will be released after you have made payments for your project. Your organisation will need to be able to front the upfront costs of delivering the project, with reimbursement coming in up to 30 days.

Previously funded projects have included:

• improving access to nature
• creation of pollinator habitat, wildflower meadows and community wildlife gardens
• road verge wildflower management
• animal homes (bug hotels, bird and bat boxes)
• orchards, community food growing

• Neighbourhood Nature

Items up to a value of £1000 in total can be provided for you, to use within your community space, to encourage nature and enhance biodiversity in publicly accessible spaces. Items are limited to those in the request form below.

• Plants, includes trees, bulbs, seeds, plugs, pollinator plants and associated items e.g. tree stakes, peat free compost
• Animal homes, includes bird boxes, bug hotels, hibernation boxes, bat boxes and associated items.

The Guidance and Request forms can be found below

Community Wildlife Grants 2026/27 - Guidance Notes (PDF, 270 KB)

2026-27 Community Wildlife Application Form Eng (Word doc, 884 KB)

Neighbourhood Nature 2026/27 request form (Word doc, 883 KB)