Funding - summary of sources

There are a number of different funding sources for management and restoration of vegetated shingle. Most of these are not specific to the habitat but the schemes most commonly used are identified below. These include the European Union funding mechanisms (LIFE Programmes) and the Interreg Community Initiative, which was adopted in 1990 aimed to prepare border areas for a Community where internal national frontiers would be of less significance. Existing projects fall under INTERREG II, new projects INTERREG III.

Three schemes in the UK operate under the EU Agri-environment funding mechanism, as follows:

1. Countryside Stewardship;
2. Environmentally Sensitive Areas;
3. Countryside Agency schemes.

Other sources include:

• the countryside agencies;
• DEFRA in particular for schemes involving flood and coastal defence;
• the National Heritage Lottery Fund (http://www.hlf.org.uk/index2.html), which has helped fund the shingle video.