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New report available

November 2009
The fourth edition of Where The Green Grants Went is now available.
Download it here

The Environmental Funders Network (EFN) is an informal network of trusts, foundations and individuals making grants on environmental and conservation issues.

The EFN is a funder-to-funder network and is not open to grant-seeking organisations. Its main purpose is to allow for peer group contact between environmental grant-makers, and to provide a forum in which issues of common concern can be discussed.

Since it was launched in summer 2003 more than 85 funding organisations, most of them UK based, have taken part in its meetings. Some of these organisations are listed under Who’s Involved.

Information for Philanthropists and Funding Organisations

Funders ForumThe EFN organises quarterly lunches and other ad hoc events, with the foundations involved taking turns to host events.  There is no charge for taking part in these events, but they are open to funders only.

The EFN also carries out research into patterns of environmental grant-making in the UK, through the Where The Green Grants Went reports available on the Resources page.

We also encourage discussion between environmental grant-makers so please visit and contribute to our Discussion Forum.  You will need to have been assigned a log-in name and password in order to use the forum.  Please use the Contact page of the site to request these.

Information for Organisations Seeking Funding

Have your sayUnfortunately the EFN does not have any capacity for handling funding applications. Please don’t send applications or requests for advice on funding to the contact address given here, as this will only generate frustration and disappointment all round!

If you are looking for funding then you may find it useful to follow the links to the websites of funders featured on the Who’s Involved page, in order to find out more about their work.  We hope to add profiles of these and other funding organisations to the site in due course.

Your comments on the site and the material on it would be greatly appreciated.  The Have Your Say page provides an opportunity for you to post feedback to the site.