Funding creative responses to environmental injustice.
What we offer
- purpose
- places
- wilding
- knowledge
- practices
- action
- art
Global majority and lower-income communities bear the worst effects of climate and ecological breakdown while having the least say in how to respond.
We aim to address this injustice by supporting people experiencing it to shape local, community-led nature spaces through our Nature Communities fund; and by supporting artistic research that contributes to ecological knowledge and care through our Artistic Research fund.
NatureCommunities
Nature Communities
Afield funds community-led nature projects that create joyful and biodiverse spaces.
Read the application guidelines and apply →
We aim to address environmental injustice driven by structural inequalities in urban planning, land use, and development. These failures result in biodiversity loss, degraded habitats, poor physical and mental health, and increased climate vulnerability, all of which disproportionately affect global majority and low-income communities.
We believe that those with experience of environmental injustice are best placed to shape joyful, biodiverse spaces they can enjoy.
We launched the first Nature Communities call for applications on 14th October 2026 to support creative, long-term, community-led projects that benefit both people and other species. This first call is open to people living in eight priority London boroughs, offering up to £60,000 over two years, alongside cohort-based learning and support.
Afield funds community-led nature projects that create joyful and biodiverse spaces.
Read the application guidelines and apply →
We aim to address environmental injustice driven by structural inequalities in urban planning, land use, and development. These failures result in biodiversity loss, degraded habitats, poor physical and mental health, and increased climate vulnerability, all of which disproportionately affect global majority and low-income communities.
We believe that those with experience of environmental injustice are best placed to shape joyful, biodiverse spaces they can enjoy.
We launched the first Nature Communities call for applications on 14th October 2026 to support creative, long-term, community-led projects that benefit both people and other species. This first call is open to people living in eight priority London boroughs, offering up to £60,000 over two years, alongside cohort-based learning and support.
ArtisticResearch
Artistic Research
Afield funds artistic research that contributes to ecological knowledge and care.
Afield will be launching the first round of its arts grants in London in early 2027.
Artists make vital contributions to ecological inquiry and understanding - rooted in imagination, embodied knowledge and connection - that go beyond established scientific, technical, and cultural frameworks.
Artistic research can build connections where current crises build divisions: between making and thinking, bodies and ideas, knowledge and action. It can hold the unknown, the difficult and the uncertain alongside grief, loss, wonder, joy and love.
We fund artists on low incomes or financial hardship. We are particularly interested in applications from artists who have been historically excluded from arts funding: artists from global majority backgrounds, disabled and chronically ill artists, and LGBTQIA+ artists.
We Afield will be launching our its first open call for the Artistic Research fund in winter 2026. It will be open to artists from all disciplines and career stages, offering up to £30,000 over two years, alongside cohort-based learning and support.
Afield funds artistic research that contributes to ecological knowledge and care.
Afield will be launching the first round of its arts grants in London in early 2027.
Artists make vital contributions to ecological inquiry and understanding - rooted in imagination, embodied knowledge and connection - that go beyond established scientific, technical, and cultural frameworks.
Artistic research can build connections where current crises build divisions: between making and thinking, bodies and ideas, knowledge and action. It can hold the unknown, the difficult and the uncertain alongside grief, loss, wonder, joy and love.
We fund artists on low incomes or financial hardship. We are particularly interested in applications from artists who have been historically excluded from arts funding: artists from global majority backgrounds, disabled and chronically ill artists, and LGBTQIA+ artists.
We Afield will be launching our its first open call for the Artistic Research fund in winter 2026. It will be open to artists from all disciplines and career stages, offering up to £30,000 over two years, alongside cohort-based learning and support.
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