Community Grants

Woodland grant applications

Working with partners including Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission we can provide advice on woodland planting, design and specification, help to complete a woodland grant application, identify other potential funding opportunities and recommend contractors to carry out the work for you.

Our grants support the creation of new woodlands, hedgerow and landscape trees in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Forest of Bowland National Landscape and Nidderdale National Landscape. Applications from outside this area will also be considered if they meet funding criteria.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for funding your proposed woodland should

• Significantly conserve, enhance or add to the natural heritage
• Be accessible to the general public or be clearly visible from a public right of way
• Be supported by the local community.

The main focus of your application should be the planting of native broadleaf woodland, however we may also be able to fund other additional project elements, such as planting non-native species or hedgerows, providing they meet eligibility criteria around biodiversity and conservation.

Grants can also cover the costs involved in establishing a new woodland, including the supply and planting of trees and guards, fencing to exclude stock, gates to allow access and initial weeding costs.

We also support planting of landscape trees traditionally found in field margins, boundaries, in field or wider fieldscapes. Typically, these will be direct replacements for iconic established trees that have been lost to disease, such as Ash dieback, storm damage, flooding or other environmental factors but we will also consider trees in new locations.