Green Recovery Challenge Fund

(asked on 22nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the Government's £40 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund will be allocated to the funding of parks and green spaces.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 25th March 2021

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund has provided much needed funding to environmental charities and their partners, enabling them to deliver projects across England to restore nature, tackle climate change and connect people with the natural environment. So far, funding totalling over £37.5 million has been awarded to 68 projects.

A £40 million second round of funding was launched on 9 March 2021. All applications to the Green Recovery Challenge Fund will be assessed against their ability to deliver at least one of the Fund’s three themes: nature conservation and restoration, nature-based solutions, particularly for climate change mitigation and adaptation; and connecting people with nature. Projects awarded grants will be those that best meet the criteria of the Fund. There is no pre-allocation for specific types of projects.

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