Question · Action Scorecards 2025
Point awarded if the combined authority has established a community biodiversity action fund or similar, provided the following criteria are met:
- The fund is at least £500,000 or higher. Where the overall amount of funding isn't clear, it will be assumed that funds awarding individual grants over £10,000 or up to £100,000 will meet this criteria.
- The fund is accessible to community groups, including where relevant parish councils
This is a ring-fenced fund that a combined authority has created to spend on biodiversity action locally for other organisations and volunteer groups.
The criteria must clearly be about biodiversity action projects and those who apply must complete some sort of application to define their planned biodiversity activities.
More general community or environment funds (such as the LCR Community Environment Fund) will be awarded if they specify that biodiversity projects will be supported.
The fund must be current - either accepting nominations in 2024, or awarding funding from January 2023.
Note: “in 2023” counts show how the councils listed below were marked on this question in 2023. This list of councils may be slightly different to the list of councils originally assessed on this question in 2023, due to the creation and abolition of councils between Scorecard years.
| Council | Score | Difference2023 | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater London Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| Greater Manchester Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| Liverpool City Region Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| West Midlands Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| West of England Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| West Yorkshire Combined Authority | 1/1 | ▲ 1 | |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
| 0/1 | ▼ -1 | Evidence does not meet criteria |
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
| 0/1 | -- | Evidence does not meet criteria |
Tees Valley Combined Authority
| 0/1 | -- | No evidence found |