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.

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Grant recipient

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.

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$50,575,000

2021

6 years

Earth Investigations Programme

To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.

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$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.

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$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.

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$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.

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$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.

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$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.

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$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