Kent & Medway Environmental Funding Conference

Strengthen Your Future: Connect, Learn, Grow at the Kent & Medway Environmental Funding Conference

Join us at the beautiful Shorne Woods Country Park for a day dedicated to growing environmental projects across Kent and Medway. Whether you’re working to protect local habitats, reduce your organisation’s carbon footprint, or launch a community sustainability initiative, this conference will help you find the funding and support you need to make it happen.

Exclusively for charities, community groups, and voluntary sector organisations in Kent and Medway, this event brings together funders, experts, and peers to help you acquire new knowledge, exchange ideas, and strengthen your organisation’s impact.

Running from 10am–3pm, the day will give you the opportunity to:

• Meet funders who support environmental and sustainability-focused work
• Hear directly about current funding priorities, including climate action, biodiversity, community energy, and green innovation
• Learn essential fundraising skills tailored to environmental outcomes and project design
• Access 1‑2‑1 funding advice to discuss your organisation

Highlights of the Day:

• • Green Social Prescribing
    Find out how Explore Kent are connecting Kent residents with nature-based activities to improve mental and physical health through their green social prescribing initiative and health and nature network
    
  • Spotlight on Shorne Woods
    The Kent Country Park's team tell us how they've developed Shorne Woods Country Park into an open-access, community environmental space
    
  • Case study - Learn from peers
    Hear directly from Abbey Physic Community Garden, one of the county's most successful community gardens
    
  • Meet the Funders
    Meet Forestry Commission, Kent Community Energy, Kent Community Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund. Hear about their current priorities, programmes, and what they’re looking for in successful applications
    
  • Connect & Collaborate
    A facilitated workshop session sharing the benefits of environmental funding partnerships and the potential they can bring
    
  • EDI & Environmental Projects
    An interactive workshop exploring how equity, diversity and inclusivity can be embedded into environmental projects and how to articulate that in your funding bids
    
  • Foraging workshop
    Internationally renowned wild foods expert, author, and public speaker, Miles Irving, leads an insightful talk exploring foraging for community projects 

This conference is generously funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The content of our conference is for charitable organisations based in and benefitting the UK county of Kent, including Medway. Any attendees who are not based in and benefitting the UK county of Kent, including Medway, and who are not representing a not-for-profit organisation, will have their place automatically cancelled.