Orchards
Coronation Community Orchard Project
Lincolnshire County Council has been awarded funding from Defra’s Coronation Living Heritage Fund for the creation of up to 30 new community orchards in the county. We will be working together with District Councils across the county to deliver this project.
The types of applicants for Coronation community orchards will include:
- parish councils
- schools
- voluntary groups
- charities
- private landowners who can offer benefit to their local community
A community orchard can be on either private or public land if there is a community benefit for the orchard, such as, the community involved in setting up and maintaining the orchard, or the community has access to the orchard on a permanent or occasional basis.
The minimum number of trees that will be considered and can class as an orchard is 5 and there is no maximum. However, the number and type of trees must be appropriate for the site.
Applicants must be able to plant the trees between December 2024 and March 2025 and agree to keep the areas around the fruit trees weed free for three years and not remove the trees for 15 years.
All schemes will be scored according to their wildlife and landscape benefit and proposed maintenance. Should more applications be received than our funding allows, only the highest scoring schemes will be awarded trees.
The deadline for 2024 applications is 31 October. If you submit after this deadline, your application will still be considered for 2025.
