Previous Dream Fund winners
The Dream Fund supports charities who wish to deliver highly innovative, impactful and engaging projects across Britain. Here are some of the previous winners of the Dream Fund:
Brilliant Butterflies
The Brilliant Butterflies project aims to reverse the long-term decline of butterfly and insect populations.
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Building Our Dreams
Building Our Dreams is a unique project that engages the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in South Wales to, quite literally, build their own land mark residential centre using the most sustainable building methods available.
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Edible Playgrounds
Edible Playgrounds transform outdoor spaces in school grounds into green growing spaces, giving children the opportunity to grow, harvest and eat healthy food.
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Energy Gardens
The Energy Garden team will be supporting communities across London to transform as many as 50 London Overground platforms and stations into thriving gardens that will incorporate food growing plots and on-site renewable energy.
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Heritage Heroes
Heritage Heroes will deliver a programme of major restoration, career recovery and conservation volunteering that will rebuild the lives of retired military veterans.
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House for Healing
House for Healing will be used to change the way children provide evidence in criminal cases and how they are supported throughout the process.
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Make Fashion Circular
The Make Fashion Circular project will create a textiles economy fit for the 21st century.
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Money Mechanics
The dream of Money Mechanics is to equip deaf, blind and partially sighted young people aged between 16 and 25 with the money management, employability, and life skills that they need to be financially confident.
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New Plastics Economy
The dream behind New Plastics Economy – Mobilisation is to develop a Global Plastics Protocol that will become an industry standard for producing sustainable plastics across Great Britain and the world.
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Search Dog Heroes
Search Dog Heroes will develop specialised scent kits and search dog training to enable communities to respond more quickly when a vulnerable person goes missing.
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Story Starters
Boosting language and communicative development in early years is crucial to improving children's life chances. Story Starters' dream is that every child, regardless of their background, starts primary school able to read well.
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Surviving to Thriving
Surviving to Thriving is a refugee integration project that will support 500 young refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war to successfully settle in Great Britain.
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Water Works
The Water Works project aims to address soil desiccation and erosion of biodiversity in the Fens of East England.
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Wheels of Change
The Wheels of Change project seeks to radically improve both the quality of life and the life chances of young wheelchair-users by developing a wheelchair for disabled children that is technologically impressive, modular, and affordable.
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Wild Oysters
Wild Oysters will restore the native oyster population, which will in turn see cleaner water, healthier fisheries and plentiful marine biodiversity in Britain.
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Wilder Blean
Wilder Blean will introduce Bison to a British woodland for the first time in modern history, working to restore natural processes and wildlife diversity.
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