Environmental Improvement Programme 2023-24: New bidding round

Our Environmental Improvement Programme funds and delivers projects that improve your area. Please read the webpage to find out about eligibility criteria, available funding and recent projects.

The idea submission stage closed at midday on 17 August, and the deadline to like and comment on ideas was 28 September.

You can view the ideas which have been approved in the document attached at the bottom of this page.

Ideas

We fund a variety of projects, usually up to £5,000 for local projects and up to £20,000 for projects that will enhance larger areas of the city or fit with the Strategic EIP theme for enhancement to the cities green amenity spaces and improved biodiversity.

Ideas we often receive include planting trees or wildflowers to improve biodiversity, installing new benches and community noticeboards, and improving gates, fences and the areas around war memorials.

We do not fund maintenance type projects or projects to improve play areas or highways, which can be funded by the county council’s Local Highway scheme and S106 funding respectively. Other grants and funding are available.

Like or comment on ideas

When the 'submit your ideas', stage is complete, you can select any ideas put forward and tell us if you like any of them. You can vote on up to 10 ideas. Note: the dislike option has been disabled because of some misuse.

This stage of the project ran from 22 August until 28 September 2023.

Next steps

We collated and appraised your ideas based on eligibility, risk, cost/benefits and deliverability, as well as community support for them, then asked the relevant area committee to consider which projects they wanted to fund.

The Executive Councillor for Open Spaces and City Services considered the area committees’ advice.

We announced which ideas had been selected to receive funding in February 2024, and will now begin to plan and deliver the projects. 

Further Environmental Improvement Programme background

Go to Environmental Improvement Programme. This outlines information such as eligibility criteria, the two types of funding available (Local Area and Strategic EIP), and current and recent Environmental Improvement Programme projects.