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Marine Litter Capital Grant Scheme

The Capital Grants scheme is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Waste Prevention Policy Branch) and is administered by Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, through the Live Here Love Here campaign.

The Marine Litter Capital Grants support organisations and groups to purchase capital items that:

  • Prevent litter and plastic pollution from entering the marine environment
  • Enhance the environmental management of a local area to reduce marine litter
  • Improve the health and wellbeing of communities and marine biodiversity recovery by helping to improve and/or maintain the quality of public open spaces
  • Improve the quality of their local environment by changing behaviour through creative concepts to reduce the incidence of littering

Financial support of between £500 and £40,000 will be available to constituted groups, businesses and statutory bodies meeting the eligibility criteria.

Financial support of between £500 and £5,000 will be available to non-constituted groups.

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