Founded by Dr Karen Blackport in 2022, Bright Green Nature is a small charity based in the Scottish Borders working to empower local people to restore nature, and protect our natural world, our biodiversity, and our heritage. We exist to make the world a safer and healthier place for future generations.
Driven by the team’s unwavering passion and energy for nature restoration at a grassroots level, in 2022 Bright Green Nature set out to offer microgrants and advice to local individuals and communities interested in restoring nature in their spaces. In 2023, local schools were also invited to apply to the microgrant programme. We continue to work closely with our previous, current and future grant applicants and welcome enquiries from all people interested in small-scale nature restoration in the Scottish Borders.
In 2022, the charity was gifted an area of land outside Selkirk, Deer Park, for nature restoration, biodiversity protection and community connection in perpetuity. Our restoration and management action plan can be found here. In 2024 the connecting Haining estate invited Bright Green Nature to collaborate on the development of a similar biodiversity action plan. We are working closely with our partners at The Haining to develop a management plan which reflects the importance of nature restoration and human connection to nature.
Thanks to the unwavering support of our volunteers, funders and collaborating local environmental organisations, we continue to develop diverse nature restoration and community projects in the Scottish Borders.