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Prepping the ground on the two plots ready for seeding and fencing.

Trial establishing native woodland directly from seed in grazed farmland without fencing

Amount: £4,084 Location: Invergordon Awarded: September 2025

This project will trial a novel, low-cost method for establishing native woodland directly from seed in grazed farmland or croft land — without fencing — by rapidly creating a protective thorny scrub layer as the first stage of succession. The potential innovation would lie in establishing this thorny “nurse” layer quickly from seed, with a […]

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Wester Loch

Radical pruning to better merge conifers with broadleaves for the benefit of biodiversity

Amount: £4,330 Location: Scottish Borders Awarded: September 2025

E3 R&D have received funding previously, for a long-term high pruning and monitoring project on a 70 acre site, transforming the plantation woodland into a more biodiverse site. A large part of E3 R&D’s work is to monitor the effects of their changes on biodiversity, particularly bats. For this project E3 R&D will be looking […]

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Assessing RTK multispectral surveying to aid removal of INNS

Amount: £9,540 Location: Isle of Gigha Awarded: September 2025

In 2023, the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust (IGHT) undertook a two year project to begin control of 20 hectares of INNS that would improve woodland structure, increase diversity and natural regeneration opportunity, as well as improve woodland sites that contain pathways for their community and visitors. Whilst successful in kick-starting landscape scale control of […]

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Improving riparian buffer zones to encourage distribution of beavers

Amount: £5,000 Location: Scotland & England Awarded: September 2025

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Understanding patterns, drivers and management of non-native plants in created broadleaf woodlands

Amount: £9,777 Location: Scottish Lowlands Awarded: September 2025

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Mountain birch in Scotland: genetics and recovery

Amount: £10,000 Location: Highlands Awarded: September 2025

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Riparian Woodland Demonstration Site Visits

Amount: £5,000 Location: Loch Abar Mòr Awarded: March 2025

Loch Abar Mòr is a nature restoration partnership led by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, working at a regional scale to enable communities across Lochaber to thrive in an ecologically diverse and climate resilient landscape. This grant will help engage key land managers through demonstration site visits and raise local awareness about the value of riparian woodland, […]

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Common Ground Forum Gathering 2025

Amount: £5,000 Location: Scotland Awarded: March 2025

Having contributed a grant towards the pre-cursor project to the Common Ground Forum (CGF) in 2022, we are awarding a further grant in recognition of the positive impacts achieved by the network since it has become established. The network is committed to work in the spirit of respectful dialogue and collaboration, as set out in […]

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Wood anemone Anemone nemorosa growing in profusion on woodland floor, Scotland, May 2024

Trialling Approaches to Establish Native Ground Flora

Amount: £10,000 Location: Scotland Awarded: March 2025

This grant will enable SCOTLAND: The Big Picture to demonstrate and communicate how to increase the cover of native woodland ground flora within native woodland creation schemes. This will be achieved through a combination of planting and natural colonisation across four sites in their Northwoods Rewilding Network. The lack of woodland ground flora colonising planted […]

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Chaga cultivation steps. Graphic by Rhyze Mushrooms Co-op

Developing a Native Strain of Chaga

Amount: £9,612.50 Location: Scotland Awarded: March 2025

Rhyze is a workers’ cooperative in Edinburgh who have delivered a previously funded feasibility study into the social, ecological and commercial case for Chaga cultivation in Scotland. This grant will support the next stage of their work to produce a stable and reliable strain of native chaga in vitro which can be used to produce […]

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