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Nature charities and asylum seekers expand environmental partnership with £1.62m funding
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Nature charities and asylum seekers expand environmental partnership with £1.62m funding
A partnership between refugee charities and wildlife trusts has secured £1.62m in National Lottery funding to expand environmental volunteering for asylum seekers across England and Wales.
- Action Asylum has secured £1.62m from the National Lottery’s climate action fund for a three-year expansion.
- The charity will run 120 large-scale climate events and work with over 3,000 volunteers in areas including Sheffield, Newcastle, and Bolton.
- Asylum seekers and volunteers have been clearing invasive Himalayan balsam from riverbanks in north Wales as part of the programme.
- Emma Leaper, Action Asylum project director, said the funding allows them to bring people together in nature on a scale never previously possible.
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