Funding opportunities
Register now for fully funded trees for your healthcare site
Last year, the NHS Forest helped over 140 NHS sites to plant thousands of trees to improve people’s health and boost biodiversity.
This year they are offering three different tree planting schemes:
- tree bundles – best for small to medium healthcare sites, includes a variety of bundles from 10 trees upwards
- woodland creation scheme – best for bigger healthcare sites, please also use this link if you are applying for a Tiny Healthy Forest.
- orchard scheme – best for healthcare sites looking for fruit trees
Funding to support active travel within practices
Funding of up to £5,000 to support active travel within practices is available for the second year.
Please find below the application form along with terms and conditions. Last year a number of practices successfully applied for this funding for electric bikes or to improve the cycling infrastructure within their practice. See case studies here.
Please note any funding decision is final, subject to remaining funding being available and only those scoring highest will be successful. If you are going to submit an application, you must read the terms and conditions, complete the form fully as part-completed forms won’t be considered and ensure you include quotes.
Electric vehicle infrastructure grant for staff and fleets
The grant provides small businesses (that includes GP practices) money off the cost of installing electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints and supporting infrastructure for their staff and fleet vehicles.
Green space opportunity for practices in Property Services buildings
NHS Property Services has completed 100 social prescribing sites and is now looking to create a pipeline of projects ready for next year. Its aim is to develop unused outdoor and indoor space within medium to very high areas of deprivation into spaces where community groups and charities can run social prescribing type activities for people in the local community.
If you have a green space that could be transformed into a community garden or be used for green social prescribing, please get in touch.
Alternatively, if you are in an NHS Property Services building and have void or vacant rooms that could potentially be developed into a Social Prescribing service (1-to-1 room, community café/kitchen or group activity room) please also get in touch.
Email Rachael-Ann Taylor at: Rachael-ann.taylor@property.nhs.uk
Funding and grants for carbon net zero
The following link will take you to a page containing live funding opportunities for projects that support the Greener NHS agenda: