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UK: new funds for improved environments
Two new funds have been launched in the UK to help communities improve and sustain their environments
The Environmental Justice Fund has £2 million available for communities and will run for one year to the end of March 2008. Grants of between £100,000 and £500,000 will be available to improve the quality of local environments in communities that suffer the effects of negative environmental impacts such as past or present industry, pollution or other damaging activities. The Community Environmental Renewal Scheme has £1.75 million to award in grants of up to £100,000 to support projects within communities that can demonstrate that they have been affected by local aggregates extraction activities, and which will improve the local environment for and with communities. Both funds will be managed by Forward Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Executive. www.forward-scotland.org.uk
