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<p>There is over £650 million available through the Nature for Climate Fund (NCF)
to support tree planting, woodland creation and management until 2025.</p><p> </p><p>For
2022/23 alone we have made available:</p><ul><li>over £25 million through the England
Woodland Creation Offer</li><li>£9.4 million of additional funding to support tree
nurseries, and development of workforce and skills to support the creation of woodland</li><li>£44.5
million NCF Year 3 funding for Woodland Creation Partnerships and Community Forests</li><li>£7.8
million for a new Woodland Creation Accelerator Fund to build local authority capacity
to plan new woodlands (NCF+ funding)</li><li>£2 million to support the Department
for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Levelling Up Parks Fund</li><li>£12.8 million
to the Peatland Restoration Grant Scheme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Over £14 million is
available through the Local Authority Treescapes Fund and Urban Tree Challenge Fund
which allow both local authorities and community groups to access funds for new tree-planting
projects. These have just reopened and we would encourage local authorities and community
groups to apply and support tree planting in their local areas.</p><p> </p><p>The
NCF is already providing over £33 million to restore 20,000 hectares of peatlands,
with a further bidding round in 2023.The NCF Discovery Grant has also awarded over
£5 million to 15 projects across England, stretching from Dorset to Northumberland,
enabling the foundation work needed to prepare for the restoration of over 51,000
ha of peatland.</p>
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