Cheshire's barn owl population is in rapid decline. The Mid Cheshire Barn Owl Conservation Group has been awarded funding from Biffaward to try and reverse this trend, and they've already had great success!

The Windmill Park Youth Club first identified the need for better youth facilities for the Windmill Park community. In reaction to this a partnership project which local residents has created a safe community place for teenagers to go. The space has been designed to offer a place for people to go and chat, do nothing if they want, be active, or be creative according to how they feel. 

Saltholme International Nature Reserve is a regionally important, internationally acknowledged regeneration project, managed by the RSPB.
Biffaward awarded the project £500,000 under the Flagship Scheme in March 2006. The project officially opened on 06 March 2009.

For further information visit the project's website  www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/s/saltholme/.

For over a year Groundwork London has been working with the London Borough of Ealing and local residents to create a Flagship Playscape project at King Georges Fields, Hanwell, which aims to break the mould of the risk-averse traditional children's play areas.

Biffaward awarded £257,529 towards the project, which is anticipated to open in Spring 2009.

If you want to know more about the Groundwork Playscape approach why not visit the dedicated website: http://www.groundwork-playscape.org.uk/

Photo by Kenneth Malcolm Photography

Biffaward and the Scottish Wildlife Trust have embarked on a Partnership project to trial bringing the native European beaver back to Scotland. Biffaward's Partnership Scheme is an invitation-only funding stream for projects with nationally important cultural or biodiversity benefits. Biffaward have awarded the project £253,830 to date, with the potential of awarding up to £1 million.

To find out more information please visit www.scottishbeavers.org.uk

In 2007 local Wythenshawe residents took on a demanding and fantastic urban greening challenge to transform Nan Nook Wood into a safer, more accessible community green space and thriving wildlife habitat.

A Biffaward grant enabled the National Trust to embark upon an ambitious project in 2006, at the Calke Abbey National Nature Reserve (NNR). The biodiversity development project addressed the need to restore ecology in the reserves' ponds. This was especially important for the globally threatened white-clawed crayfish, a rare UK BAP priority species, which was surviving in less than ideal habitat conditions in at least one of three ponds in Calke Abbey NNR.

In 2003, The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire & Peterborough won a Flagship grant of £389,930 towards the Great Fen Project.  This project, which demonstrates regional and national significance, with long term benefits for biodiversity and communities, will restore more than 3,000 hectares of wildlife habitat to the Cambridgeshire Fens.

Through the Small Grants Scheme, Avon Wildlife Trust secured a grant to make improvements to Willsbridge Valley Local Nature Reserve (LNR), Bristol.