Apply for HLF funding and
make a difference to biodiversity

Dear Colleague,

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are being encouraged to safeguard our global natural heritage and reduce the rate of biodiversity loss.

At the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), we support the 2010 initiative, and we want organisations to apply to us for funding for projects that conserve the UK’s precious natural heritage.

Whether you want to conserve priority species or habitats, train volunteers in biological-identification techniques, or help a wider range of people learn about the natural world, we want to hear from you.

HLF has invested more than £860million in projects that safeguard the UK’s countryside, wildlife and parks, helping to protect some of our most threatened wildlife. But there is still much to do, particularly in 2010, in light of the challenges the new UK list of priority habitats and species has set.

We are already funding a broad range of projects: from saving the red barbed ant from imminent extinction on the UK mainland, to restoring lost fenland habitat in Cambridgeshire. You can find out more about some of our projects on our website, and we have just published Thinking about biodiversity, our guidance document which sets out what we can fund and lists sources of advice to give you ideas and help you plan your project.

For more information about HLF, please email enquire@hlf.org.uk or call 020 7591 6042.

Apply for HLF funding and make a difference to the UK's biodiversity in 2010.