We are very grateful to players of the National Lottery and the People’s Postcode Lottery; lottery grants have funded several of Butterfly Conservation’s biggest landscape scale conservation projects.

Current and completed projects funded through lottery grants since 2015 include:

Chequered Skipper Taking Flight East Midlands 2021 - 2023
Green Recovery Challenge Fund
Big City Butterflies (delivery phase) South East England 2021 - 2025
National Lottery Heritage Fund logo
Green Recovery for Morecambe Bay's Woodlands North West England 2020 - 2022
Green Recovery Challenge Fund
Social Butterflies South West England 2020 - 2021
Postcode Local Trust
Kent's Magnificent Moths (delivery phase) South East England 2019 - 2022
National Lottery Heritage Fund logo
Saving the Wood White butterfly in the South East South East England 2019 - 2022
Heritage Fund logo
Saving the Northern Brown Argus in the Scottish Borders Scotland 2019 - 2020
Heritage Fund logo
Helping Hands for Butterflies Scotland 2019 - 2022
Heritage Fund logo

Conserving the Duke of Burgundy and the Marsh Fritillary in Wiltshire

South West England

2019 - 2020

Limestone Lepidoptera

Yorkshire

2019 - 2022

Small Blue butterfly wildflower bank creation at St Julian’s Meadow, Greenwood Park, Chiswell Green

East England

2019 - 2020

Big City Butterflies: Discovering London's Butterflies and Moths (development phase)

South East England

2018 - 2019

Munching Caterpillars Scotland

Scotland

2018 - 2020

Duke of Burgundy Stepping Stones

North West England

2018

Returning the Chalk Hill Blue to Warwickshire

West Midlands

2018 - 2019

Kent’s Magnificent Moths (development phase)

South East England

2018 - 2019

Woodland Wings: Conserving the rare butterflies and moths of the East Midlands

East Midlands

2017 - 2020

Munching Caterpillars Goes to Town, Bristol

South West England

2017 - 2018

Postcode Local Trust

The Blues and Browns of Polden Hills: Saving two of the UK’s most threatened butterflies

South West England

2017 - 2020

All The Moor Butterflies - Conserving the South West’s Threatened Butterflies and Moths (delivery phase)

South West England

2017 - 2019

Making A Stand For The Wood White. Conserving the West Midlands’ most threatened butterfly

West Midlands

2016 - 2018

The Butterfly Files: Creating opportunities for a greater understanding of Northern Ireland’s butterflies and moths

Northern Ireland

2016 - 2018

The Urban Butterfly Net: building sustainable volunteer networks to conserve the butterflies of Central Scotland

Scotland

2015 - 2018

Fritillaries for the Future, Sussex

South East England

2015 - 2018