NEW Canoe Foundation funding pot open for applications

We're pleased to announce that the latest round of grant funding from the Canoe Foundation is now live. If you have a project in need of funding up to £10,000 for access and environment related improvements, you can apply for grant funding from the Canoe Foundation today.

Submit your applications here!

During the last funding cycle, over £50,000 was awarded to several projects across the UK. This included a £5,000 grant to the Swansea Canal Society towards their "Clydach Lock Portage Ramps and Watersports Basin" project, which aims to install portage ramps on this section of canal as part of a larger project to reopen the remaining sections of the canal. Take a look at this and some of the other projects awarded grant funding in the last cycle here.

Now, the Canoe Foundation is looking for projects across the whole of the UK that will:

• Increase and protect public access points to water for recreational users
• Create sustainable launching and landing sites, to and alongside water, for all sectors of the community and abilities
• Protect and enhance the natural environment we enjoy such as rivers or coastline

Specifically funding is available for the following types of projects:

• Launch and landing platforms, steps or ramps
• Improvements to pathways and accessible routes to the waters edge
• Signage and information that promotes positive behaviour (Countryside code, “Check, Clean, Dry”, take your litter home etc)
• Designated or additional parking for water users
• Works to address erosion and create more sustainable access points
• Projects that actively engage recreational water users in helping protect the waterway environment (such as habitat creation or invasive non-native species action)
• Projects that are multi user or can benefit more than one user group
• Projects that benefit all paddlers rather than member facilities
  
  

So if you’re a club, community group, Parish Council, Local Authority, charity or organisation working to improve or sustain access or the environment in your area, the Canoe Foundation is looking for applications from you!

If you'd like to discuss your application with Canoe Wales before submission, please contact our Development Officer Lydia Wilford on lydia.wilford@canoewales.com

Applications for this funding cycle close at midnight (00:00) on Tuesday 19 April 2022, after the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Applications must be made within the time frame to be considered for this funding cycle. Once applications close, they will be carefully considered against the criteria by Trustees before successful applicants are contacted. For further information, please contact rebecca.lovatt@britishcanoeing.org.uk