BBC encourages Breathing Places applications

Breathing Places is aimed at community groups, schools, businesses and individuals to galvanise the world’s largest ever mass participation conservation campaign. Over four years, a joint project between the BBC and its partners will inspire a million people to transform our landscape by creating breathing places for people and wildlife.

The aims of the Breathing Places Big Lottery grant scheme are to:

1. Increase participation and access to local breathing places by encouraging people to become actively involved in them, and by supporting activities that are open and accessible to everyone.
2. Make a lasting improvement to the local environment by supporting activities that develop existing breathing places or help create and sustain new ones.

Open for applications: 12 June 2006
Closed for applications: 26 July 2006

Information on the scheme is available on the NICVA Grant Tracker website.