Feature: Live Here Love Here
1. HEALTHY OCEANS, HEALTHY MINDS
2. ADPOT A SPOT
Adopt A Spot is a project that enables individuals and community groups to adopt an area and look after it. This could be a mile of your favourite beach that is always full of litter, a local park or forest, or even the street you live on. If you can think of an area in need of a little TLC, why not adopt it?
With Adopt A Spot, we ask you to commit to maintaining your Spot for a minimum of two years. In return, you can apply for one of the following free kits to help you look after your Spot:
- Clean-Up Kit
- Food For Thought Kit
- Wildlife Kit
Learn more about Adopt A Spot here.
3. MARINE LITTER CAPITAL GRANT
The Marine Litter Capital Grants will support organisations and groups to purchase items to:
• 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.
The Marine Litter Capital Grant is available across the whole of Northern Ireland, and is not restricted to coastal areas. However, the funding is specifically targeted at preventing marine litter, so in your application you must be able to demonstrate clearly how your proposed project will contribute to reducing litter and plastics entering our seas.
Deadline extended to 21st of September.
Learn more about the Marine Litter Capital Grant here.
4. INTERNATIONAL BEACH CLEAN (CANCELLED)
Saturday, 17 September
The Live Here Love Here ethos is all about positive change where we live, which aligns with the Leave No Trace Ireland goals of positive, responsible outdoor education and recreation. Live Here Love Here are passionate about creating a healthier and greener Northern Ireland which not only affects people’s physical health, but comes with overwhelming social benefits, such a pride of place, and wider community connections. Their message is that, through Live Here Love Here we can all do one small thing to help to make a big difference in our communities.