The Greater Manchester Environment Fund is working hard to build a greener and fairer city-region for generations to come. However, with such a huge challenge ahead, The Greater Manchester Environment Fund recognises that a much more significant impact could be made through collaborating with businesses and other organisations.
If you’re a Greater Manchester business or investor and share the desire to boost nature across our region, the Fund invites you to find out more about their work, progress to date and opportunities to invest and work together.
A special thank you to Natural Course who have been pivotal in their support for the establishment of GMEF and have kindly offered to fund the event.
What is the Greater Manchester Environment Fund?
The Greater Manchester Environment Fund (GMEF) is the UK’s first regional environmental impact fund benefitting the region socially, environmentally, and financially. We are a central funding source for environmental projects that are working to benefit both nature and people.
We bring together the most urgent causes and supporters, matching generous funding from philanthropists, private donors, environmental taxes and compensation funds with exciting projects of all sizes across Greater Manchester. We have already supported over 100 projects across Greater Manchester, ranging from encouraging recycling and reuse to improving accessible green space and creating and restoring habitats that will reverse nature’s decline.
We are working with companies to deliver their Biodiversity Net Gain commitments and accelerate an organisation’s journey to Net Zero through carbon offsetting opportunities. We can work with businesses to direct funds from enforcement undertakings, taxes and levies (such as landfill tax and carrier bag charges) into environmental causes.
The fund was formed as a unique partnership between The Lancashire Wildlife Trust and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.