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Grants of £1,000 are available to UK state-funded secondary schools, including 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

Priority will be given to schools with a higher-than-average percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals, those located in areas of high deprivation, and those within the Trust’s hub area postcodes.

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

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