Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated July 2024). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
Climate change action
To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.
$5,000,000
2008
5 years
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$450,000
2014
4 years
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$100,000
2012
2 years
Conservation of East-Atlantic Flyway
To conserve key sites for migratory birds in northern Europe and West Africa.
$900,000
2012
4 years
Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)
To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.
$3,000,000
2020
5 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership – Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots Programme
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$3,250,980
2019
5 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$500,000
2011
5 years
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
European Open Rivers Programme
To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.
Learn more$50,575,000
2021
6 years
Earth Investigations Programme
JournalismFund Europe
https://www.journalismfund.eu/news/eu115-million-environmental-investigative-journalism
To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.
Learn more$13,685,000
2021
6 years
Marine protection fund
To support a joint grant programme with Bloomberg Philanthropies for work towards the target of protecting 30% of the world’s marine and coastal areas by 2030.
Learn more$25,000,000
2023
5 years
Oceans 5 Partnership
To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.
Learn more$6,000,000
2021
3 years
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme
To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich terrestrial and marine habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Learn more$71,648,800
2023
8 years
Endangered Landscapes Programme
To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Learn more$35,059,365
2020
10 years
Endangered Landscapes Programme
To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Learn more$31,436,821
2017
7 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,800,000
2013
6 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.
Core support for Blue Ventures’ to help it achieve its mission to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.
$2,500,000
2022
5 years