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Find out how you can apply for CLA Charitable Trust funding for your cause
Our grant guidelines explain what, who and how we provide funding for worthy causes.
Application process
We are not currently accepting applications and plan to reopen with revised grant guidelines in summer 2026.
We have granted funding to the following causes and charities:
2025 funding
Nunny’s Farm CIC
Community farm running costs.
£5,000
Crowsmill Craft Centre CIC
Purchase of greenhouse for new orchard at 3-acre former arable site.
£4,946
Neuromuscular Centre
Deliver accessible Community Garden and Growing project to enable individuals with physical restrictions to be outside in nature.
£2,774
Building Self-Belief CIO
Sustainable Future for Benfieldside – Community Garden Youth Project
£2,500
Flynne’s Barn
Provision of activities at countryside residentials for young people with cancer.
£5,000
Nell Bank Charitable Trust
Assisted Places scheme to support attendance by children who would otherwise not afford the visit.
£5,000
Ouseburn Farm Charity
Costs to support livestock and horticulture workshops within placement programme for adults with disabilities.
£5,000
Countryside Education Trust
Core funding to facilitate work connecting people with the countryside.
£5,000
Friends of Frampton Farm CIC
Provision of free young farming club providing educational and care farming activities.
£5,000
Isle of Wight Mencap
Funding to repair buildings at Haylands Farm.
£4,000
Apple Tree Farm Services CIC
Support for care farm through funding utility costs and stocking barn kitchen.
£5,000
Bath City Farm
Support for delivery of children and young people programme.
£5,000
Carymoor Environmental Trust
Therapeutic outdoor activity days for families facing disadvantage.
£2,532
Greenwood Music CIC
Delivery of eight nature immersion days.
£4,891
Harvest Workers Co-op
Workshops promoting good farming practices that help build soil fertility while increasing biodiversity and producing nutrient-dense crops.
£2,850
Jamie’s Farm
Support apprenticeship programme at two Jamie's Farms sites, Lewes and Hereford.
£5,000
Neroche Woodlanders
Blooming Brambles nature wellbeing sessions for adults with mental health needs.
£4,810
Project Manna
Complete level 3 Forest School training and deliver a forest school programme for children from low-income households.
£4,425
Emmaus South Wales
Expansion of current growing area and addition of chickens.
£2,892
Woad Farm Project
Essential barn renovations, making the farm more accessible and expanding capacity to run sessions.
£5,000
Lowerberdale Farm
Funding for direct project costs to contribute towards the salary cost of a part time Farm Coordinator
£5,000
British Disabled Angling Association
Schools Outdoor Learning and Activities Project: introduce disabled children and young people to the joys of fishing, enhancing their physical, social, and emotional well-being.
£4,500
Norton Hall Children and Family Centre
Support for forest school programme and outdoor learning sessions.
£5,000
Wear Rivers Trust
Wear Warriors - four-day programme for young people involving nature-based learning and fieldwork.
£5,000
Marsh Street Arches and Gardens CIC
Salary costs for a Community Connector, who will lead TANGO (Together as Neighbours Giving Out) educational programmes on Earth to Table food sovereignty, composting for sustainability, and the benefits of outdoor spaces.
£5,000
Team Oasis
Plant to plate programme utilising 8-acre plot of land in South Liverpool.
£5,000
Farmspace Barnsley CIC
Build a warm, wooden classroom area on the farm to support our adult wellbeing programs.
£5,000
Growing Works
Core funding to support the provision of outdoor, inclusive, therapeutic activities.
£5,000
Harewood House Trust
Provision of funded visits in partnership with Gipton Old Fire Station and Kidz Klub Leeds.
£3,145
Autism Group
Four outdoor nature sessions for young autistic people to attend during the school summer holidays.
£1,101
Isle of Wight Rare Breeds CIC
Running costs for new young farming club.
£4,710
Trail Blazers Education CIC
Fishing and Forest School summer programme.
£4,040
Action for Conservation
Travel costs for Ambassador Programme, giving young people the opportunity to deliver environmental action projects in their communities.
£5,000
Mrs Burney's Bee Club CIC
Bee experience workshops for primary school pupils.
£2,400
High Mead Farm CIC
Material and labour costs for essential replacement fencing at High Mead Farm.
£5,000
One Life Autism Support Group
Funding for animal and gardening project.
£4,200
Swansea Community Farm
Cynefin habitat-focused project within Farm Clwb young volunteers’ sessions where the young people will carry out wildlife surveys and create habitats to encourage native species to thrive.
£4,987
Green Synergy
Green Wellness project providing gardening and therapeutic horticulture activities.
£5,000
Lambourne End Centre
Outdoor learning programmes for young people.
£5,000
Stepney City Farm
Staff costs, Environmental Education Programme for children and young people.
£5,000
SNaP Youth
Four seasonal visits to Turner Farm, Derbyshire for young people.
£1,765
Wildgoose Rural Training
Jigsaw Project – supporting children and young people experiencing problems at school through nature connection activities.
£5,000
Blossom
Inclusive horticultural work experience taster sessions for young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) at Wythenshawe Park Horticultural Centre.
£5,000
Lancashire Youth Challenge
Time to Breathe, nature-based wellbeing programme held on a working farm in the Forest of Bowland and in Lancaster City Centre.
£3,528
Basingstoke Mencap Services
Inclusive horticulture programme for young people with additional needs.
£3,572
Communigrow
Eco-Education programme, providing outdoor education for young people unable to attend mainstream school.
£4,980
Headway Kent
Develop new allotment into a fully accessible, therapeutic growing space for adults with acquired brain injury.
£4,970
William Robinson Gravetye Charity
Hands on environmental learning sessions for disadvantaged young people.
£3,319
Avon Needs Trees
Woodland skills training programme for young people.
£4,990
Heart of BS13
Support flower farm volunteer and school education programme.
£5,000
Home-Start Wessex
Tumbledown nature playgroup supporting disadvantaged children, families and carers.
£5,000
Step Together Volunteering
Get Growing – allotment project supporting young people in Bristol.
£4,979
Yeovil Rivers Community Trust
Deliver monthly ecology and wildlife skills sessions to adults with learning difficulties.
£5,000
Blackthorne Trust
Green Shoots - young people's regenerative agriculture mentorship project.
£4,989
2024 funding
Break
Woodland workshops to support young people taken into care.
£4,628
Hertfordshire Agricultural Society
Transport costs to support pupils visiting the school food and farming event.
£1,000
Mudlarks
Salary costs to increase staffing and provision of social therapeutic horticulture to children and young people with disabilities.
£5,000
Suffolk Agricultural Society
Transport costs to enable schools to attend the School Farm and Country Fair.
£1,000
Sunny Skies CIC
Set-up of new outdoor space as part of activities to support adults with learning difficulties.
£5,000
Bang Edutainment
After-school growing groups for young people.
£2,310
Biddulph Youth and Community Zone
Outdoor learning project including growing in the community garden.
£5,000
Harwes Farm CIC
Host school and community visits at the farm.
£5,000
Stomping Ground
Delivery of forest school / outdoor sessions to young people at risk of exclusion from school. Salary costs for a finance officer to support organisational development.
£4,932
Hill End Outdoor Education Centre
Outdoor education days for young carers.
£3,232
Sadeh Farm
Creation of wheelchair accessible paths on their community farm.
£5,000
Stonehill Community Garden
Funds to pay a Garden Coordinator one day per week to expand the open garden sessions.
£1,560
FarmLink
Running costs for hands-on sessions for young people to learn about farming life and the countryside.
£5,000
Gecko Community
Start-up costs for a social farm for neurodiverse young people.
£4,000
HARE Forest School CIC
Staff costs for nature based walk and talk sessions for parents with young children.
£2,434
Nurture in Nature Children & Families CIC
Funding towards an outdoor classroom and equipment to provide activities to support children with complex needs and their families.
£5,000
Shallowford Trust
Core costs towards farm visits for disadvantaged young people.
£5,000
Belvoir Cricket & Countryside Trust
Costs towards outdoor learning days. Restricted to supporting schools for children with additional needs.
£2,510
Green Light Trust
Core running costs towards nature-based wellbeing and education programmes.
£5,000
Global Generation
Young Gardeners club at Paper Garden in Southwark.
£4,859
Chev Gateshead Ltd
Gardener fees for allotment project supporting young women with additional needs.
£3,000
Morecambe Bay Partnership
Support with travel costs and free loan of wet weather clothing and wellies to enable successful school and college visits.
£1,573
North East Autism Society
Purchase / construction of polytunnel, irrigation system, necessary materials and equipment to establish horticulture programme to support autistic individuals.
£5,000
Dandelion Time
Farm-based therapeutic programmes for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families.
£5,000
Lord Wilson Academy
Creation of community kitchen garden and activities at school for children with additional needs.
£3,000
Goodwood Education Trust
Farm visits for children, particularly those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable.
£4,680
Little Gate Supported Employment
Running costs of land management project for two days per week.
£5,000
Meath Epilepsy Charity
Repairs to walled garden to provide a newly accessible green space and run a weekly gardening short course.
£5,000
One Church
Contribute to staff costs for one therapeutic worker at Rock Farm.
£5,000
Froglife Trust
Outdoor activity sessions for people with dementia.
£5,000
Cae Tan CSA
Support eight full day farm visits to either Cae Tan CSA or Cae Felin CSA as part of sustainable schools’ programme.
£3,995
Willow Collective
Purchase tools and equipment to sustain holistic training provision for young people.
£4,700
Vauxhall City Farm
Education Officer to deliver City Sprouts sustainable farming activities to young people.
£4,993
Cooke E-Learning Foundation (trading as E2)
Establish a food and growing project in their urban garden.
£5,000
Sunfield Special School (Ruskin Mill Trust)
Improvements to on-site farm.
£5,000
Wild Things Ecological Education Collective
Support the delivery of 12-week Forest School programmes.
£5,000
Get Up and Grow NW
Delivery of 12-week vocational horticulture programme at St. Cuthbert’s High School.
£4,820
Royal Cross Primary School for Deaf Children
Polytunnel and other gardening items plus Wild Passport Programme.
£2,731
Touchbase Care
Activities at their community allotment and weekly wellbeing walks.
£5,000
Community Farm
Delivery of therapeutic horticulture and therapeutic wildlife conservation courses.
£4,979
Cultivating Community
Installation of disabled accessible composting toilet at Broadway Community Gardens.
£5,000
Redcatch Community Garden
Delivery of two sustainable food growing education programmes for children and young people.
£4,860
Gerddi Bro Ddyfi Gardens
Staff and operational costs towards weekly social and therapeutic horticulture drop-in sessions.
£4,527
Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Repairs to classroom space at Llyn Coed y Dinas nature reserve in Welshpool.
£4,700