Here are the applications that have been approved since the start of the grants scheme:

  1. Edwinstowe Parish Council - now completed
  2. Mine2Minds – now completed
  3. The Sherwood Forest Trust – now completed
  4. Social Action Hub – now completed
  5. St Mary’s Church – now completed
  6. Birklands Ringing Group - Project to engage local people with surveying bird population - now completed
  7. Bilsthorpe Mining Museum -Making oral and visual history recordings of ex miners - now completed
  8. Asquith Primary School - Taking part in fun and engaging activities in the woods
  9. Newark Book Festival - Development of the Festival's outreach programme, working with partners and communities in Edwinstowe and the Sherwood Forest area
  10. Forest Town Nature – Offering opportunities to celebrate Sherwood’s natural  heritage
  11. Sam’s Workplace - Equipment and tools to help protect and diversify the wildlife at their allotments
  12. Berry Hill - Taking part in fun and engaging activities in the woods
  13. Bloomin' Dementia - Trips to local woodland and wildlife areas for the enrichment of the lives of those affected by dementia.
  14. Friends of Bestwood Park - Developing a newsletter, conservation tasks and purchasing moth monitoring equipment.
  15. Wild Things Ecological - Delivery of a  6 week Forest School programme to 9 children aged 9-11 who are currently struggling with mental health and social and educational inclusion.
  16. Feel Good Gardens - Teach, through practical sessions, how to grow and identify wildflowers, why growing wildflowers is important for the local area, wildlife and ecology, and lots of other facts about wildflowers.
  17. Blidworth Parish Council - developing a village trail and information board to provide a history legacy.
  18. Oasis Community Church – taking groups of children into Sherwood Forest for nature based activities and to observe the Forest and woodlands.
  19. Social Action Hub – Providing forest school tools and resources for young people to gain practical opportunities and learning and to get involved and understand their local heritage.
  20. Mine2Minds - online arts, heritage and cultural landscape digital trail around Blidworth.