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Find out how you can apply for CLA Charitable Trust funding for your cause
Shea is one of many youngsters to benefit from the charity's work. Pic credit Chailey Heritage Foundation.jpeg

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

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