Fund the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership (NESBiP)

Become a NESBiP Funding Partner

Current funding partners include Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council, Moray Council, Ithaca Energy, Scottish Forestry and The James Hutton Institute. Becoming a funding partner, you will become a visible and valued supporter of a fairer, greener future for North East Scotland.

Funding partners support the continuing work of the partnership’s Biodiversity Coordinator and contribute to the operating costs of the partnership. The coordinator plays a key role in raising awareness around biodiversity loss and how to reverse this. They work with local communities, a wide range of local organisations and our partners to take action for nature. Collaboration is crucial.

If you were to fund the partnership, we offer the following benefits:

• Access to expert biodiversity advice and support to enhance your environmental efforts and meet sustainability goals
• Regional project collaboration, training, and best practice workshops
• Partners can engage in community initiatives, corporate volunteering, and wellbeing events
• Sharing best practice and developing advice for businesses, including developers, to benefit biodiversity
• Contributing to community education and wellbeing through resources and citizen science tools like camera traps
• Opportunities to network and share knowledge at annual stakeholder events

Fund one of NESBiP’s projects

By funding our partnership projects, you are helping NESBiP’s Biodiversity Coordinator raise awareness and support communities on their biodiversity journey. The most recent project was the TAQA Group sponsoring the purchase of scything equipment and wildflower seed collection workshops to enable local community groups to effectively manage their grasslands and reduce their carbon footprint. Other past project sponsorship has been providing support for our annual seminar, which aims to share good practice and provides networking opportunities. Also, topic experts have been sponsored to visit the North East and provide focused training on specific issues such as management of grassland in open spaces.

If you were to fund our partnership projects, we offer the following benefits:

• Help you reach your corporate environmental management and efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals
• Advice on how to target funding for maximum benefit
• Opportunity to take part in the projects you fund
• Access to a wide range of local organisations working for biodiversity
• Providing support for local communities and organisations to understand the state of local biodiversity and their efforts to improve it

We are looking for funding support for the following projects:

• NESBiP Big 5 – support for running swift surveying training events and providing nest boxes for projects.
• NESBiP Big 5 – support a willow identification and ecology course.
• NESBiP Big 5 – provide hedgehog houses to communities and help create hedgehog highways.
• Pooling our ponds – a NESBiP initiative which provides training and identification materials to support schools and community groups in assessing and monitoring the health of their local pond. 
• Native wildflower seeds to community groups.
• Free wildflower and scything workshops for communities.
• Providing camera traps to community groups and schools to assist in collecting essential biological data and engaging and inspiring.