§ Mr. Bill WalkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement concerning the amount of grant aid being made available under the special grants (environmental) programme in 1992–93 to voluntary bodies in Scotland working in the environmental field.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI am pleased to announce that grant aid totalling £303,125 has been offered to voluntary bodies to assist them in carrying out environmental conservation, improvement or educational work in Scotland. The special grants (environmental) programme offers two different types of funding: core funding to help organisations with their central
Project funding has been allocated to 12 organisations as follows:
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Organisation Project Grant £ Age Concern (Orkney) Inter-island glass recycling project 3,225 CSV Media Green Action Aberdeen media action video project 3,700 Council for Scottish Archaeology Archaeological action information packs 3,000 Friends of the Earth (Scotland) Consumer awareness information pack 5,000 Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership Edinburgh and Lothians car sharing project 3,550 Scottish Native Woods Campaign Growing up with trees project pack 4,000 Scottish Wildlife Trust Wildlife information network 5,000 Skye Forum Salmon ensilage project 3,750 Slide Workshop Model school grounds information dissemination project 900 Sustrans Scotland Rutherglen bridge project 5,000 administrative costs, and project funding for distribution to projects designed to further government environmental policy aims as set out in the White Paper "This Common Inheritance". Core funding has been allocated to 39 organisations as follows:
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Organisation Grant £ Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland 2,000 Ayr Architectural Heritage Trust 5,000 Buchan Countryside Group 2,000 Centre for Human Ecology 6,500 Council for Scottish Archaeology 13,500 Community Service Volunteers 6,500 Environment Centre 4,500 Friends of the Earth (Scotland) 12,000 Garden History Society 4,500 Habitat Scotland 3,000 Heartland Radio Association 2,000 Heritage Education Trust 1,500 Highland Forum 11,000 John Muir Trust 4,000 Locus Breadalbane 2,500 Mid Craigie Community Business Ltd. 1,000 National Society for Clean Air 3,500 Royal Zoological Society Scotland 3,000 Rural Forum 14,000 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 9,000 Scottish Conservation Projects 25,000 Scottish Ecological Design Association 1,400 Scottish Environmental Education Council 24,000 Scottish Environment News 2,000 Scottish Field School of Archaeology 3,000 Scottish Field Studies Association 3,000 Scottish Historic Buildings Trust 11,700 Scottish Native Woods Campaign 5,500 Scottish Rights of Way Society 7,000 Scottish Scenic Trust 1,750 Scottish Wildlife and Countryside Link 9,000 Scottish Wildlife Trust 21,000 Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust 6,300 Sustrans Scotland 10,000 Touchstone 2,000 Venture Scotland 2,000 Water of Leith Conservation Trust 5,000 West Galloway Fisheries Trust 1,350 Woodland Trust 4,000 TOTAL 256,000
Organisation Project Grant £ Touchstone Aldie Burn adventure trail 5,000 Water of Leith Conservation Trust Community environmental action 5,000 TOTAL £47,125 Further sums are being held in reserve to support suitable proposals which may arise during the year. The experience of the scheme to date has been generally very good. I am satisfied that the grants now offered will greatly assist the voluntary organisations to increase their level of activity and do much useful work.