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Grants of £1,000 are available to UK state-funded secondary schools and special schools that work with secondary-age children to support outdoor learning opportunities for their pupils.

The funding is being made available through the Ernest Cook Trust’s Outdoor Essentials Grant scheme, which will support the following:

• School grounds improvements, and to purchase outdoor learning resources that engage young people with the environment such as bug hotels, bird boxes and mini-beast investigation kits
• Transport costs to outdoor learning venues - including outdoor learning centres, forest schools, countryside parks, woodlands, national parks, farm parks, farms, coastal areas and beaches
• Outdoor clothing

This current round of the Outdoor Essentials Grant is only available to Secondary Schools and Special Schools who work with Secondary age children located within the following prefixes:

Cumbria/Lancashire: BB, CA, FY, LA, PR
Glos/Wilts/Avon: GL, SN, BS, BA20, BA21, BA22
Leicestershire: LE

Priority will be given to:

• Schools with a significantly higher than average percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals
• Schools that are located in areas of high deprivation and/or have pupils who are living in challenging circumstances
• Schools who are committed to enabling Outdoor Learning and see environmental engagement as an important part of education
• Schools who can demonstrate that Outdoor Learning has a wider benefit to families and their local community
• Those schools who have not received an Outdoor Essentials Grant from us before

This round will close to applications when a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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