What's New

The Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme (CCFS) has approved a total of ten projects involving a total grant of around $44 million in the latest round of application. Details of the ten approved projects are available here.

To encourage more conservation and revitalisation projects of various types to be carried out in the remote countryside, in addition to the existing four categories of subsidies, the CCFS will introduce a new project type entitled "Proactive Conservation" upon consultation with the Advisory Committee on Countryside Conservation (ACCC). The new project type will enable the Countryside Conservation Office (CCO) under the Environment and Ecology Bureau to carry out suitable conservation work proactively. Following the established procurement and tender procedures of the Government, the CCO will commission and subsidise local non-profit-making organisations (NPOs) to conduct relevant projects so as to extend the outcome and experience of completed CCFS projects to the wider remote countryside areas, and attract more NPOs interested in undertaking management projects to participate in the CCFS, thereby deepening the sustainable conservation and revitalisation efforts for the remote countryside.

Applications for the CCFS are accepted all-year-round. The cut-off date of application for next round of application assessment will be announced in the CCFS webpage.