Our approach - the LFF's Funding Strategy

In early 2023, we appraised our journey since our conception in 2017. We also reviewed our funding strategy.

As a result, we decided to direct the majority of our funding towards area-based protection for the next five years (2023 to 2027). You can learn more about this in our Strategy Outlook, via the link below:

Read our LFF Strategy Outlook 2023

Ocean protection activities we've previously funded

Using technology to improve enforcement of fishing policies

Supporting communities to take ownership of their own marine protection

Supporting protection of the high and deep seas

Educating the public on by-catch, over-fishing, and IUU through film, campaigns, advocacy and other tools

Supporting alternative livelihood/enterprise models for coastal communities

Supporting the reduction of by-catch

Using data and transparency to inform the behaviour of financiers and consumers

Closing the gap between science and policy to set quotas sustainably, both now and in a future world affected by warmer waters

Supporting a moratorium on deep seabed mining

Restoring and conserving mangroves

Researching sustainable aquaculture solutions

The LFF actively seeks grant applicants and partners
(we do not accept unsolicited enquires or proposals)

To seek out grant applicants we:

  1. Actively engage with a wide range of environmental organisations, community groups and other trusts and foundations.
  2. Attend relevant sector learning opportunities.
  3. Monitor ongoing and emerging strategies and trends within the oceans landscape.
  4. Invite proposals from potential grantees based on research and current priorities set by the Foundation’s trustees.

The LFF reviews grant applications on a annual basis. We tend to partner with grantholders for a maximum of three years.

Our Concerns

Climate Change

Bycatch

Overfishing

Policy, Regulation and Legislation

Research, Education and Implementation

Mangrove Deforestation

Hypoxic Zones

Illegal, Unreported or Unregulated (IUU) fishing

Aquaculture

The LFF Online Grant System

If you’ve been invited to submit an application, please use the link below to open our Online Grant  System.    

LFF Online Grant System