2023-24
The second year of Seed Bed
Projects completed so far include an immersive riverside walk celebrating the varied nature of the River Frome, and generating new poetry and art inspired by the landscape.
Find out moreSeed Bed
Our incubator for grassroots initiatives which explore the environment and ecology crises through creative words and stories.
Seed Bed nurtures, connects and champions community projects that focus on environmental themes explored through literature. It’s part of our contribution to exploring and highlighting the climate and environmental crisis through an urgent, creative, and hopeful lens. Seed Bed replaced the Annual Fund in 2022 and continued with many of its aims.
We particularly welcome applications to Seed Bed from communities in the Levelling Up for Culture places in the South West region. The rolling programme combines small grants of up to £500 each with ongoing support.
Dr Mya-Rose Craig at a Black2Nature camp funded by Seed Bed, which took place at Langaford Farm Charitable Trust in summer 2023.
Tell us about your idea
To find out more and express your interest, simply email a short summary of your project (not more than 500 words), when it’s likely to happen and what support you might need from us. Your project must:
- have a clear environmental focus
- be linked to an organisation – e.g. a community group, or a small charitable trust. If in doubt, please do discuss with us, but note that we’re unable to fund projects and activities run by solo practitioners via Seed Bed.
If we think we can support it, we’ll be in touch to arrange an online advice session and explore the options. You can email us on info@literatureworks.org.uk. Please use the subject line ‘Seed Bed’.
Feedback
Here’s a selection of the comments we’ve received from organisations whose projects have been funded via Seed Bed, and those who have participated in the activities:
‘It was a pleasure to work with Literature Works – the process was easy and admin-light, meaning we could focus on the delivery of the project.’
‘I feel inspired to create again.’
‘Evocative, empathy-provoking, great!’
‘Literature Works has been a great funder to work with, thank you! The Advice Surgery was great food for thought and we felt very supported by you. The application process was also clear and simple.”’
