In 2024, The FairWays Foundation is proud to announce the 2024 grant recipients. We have eleven projects across the USA, UK, Zambia, Ghana and Cameroon resulting in a total grant amount of $119,040.
Audubon International
Troy, NY | USA
Monarchs in the Rough
Monarchs in the Rough establishes new, high-quality habitat for monarch butterflies on golf courses across North America. It connects and supports golf course staff as they plan, install, and manage habitat projects on courses within migration routes of the monarch butterfly across North America.
GreenerGolf Network
England | UK
Greener Golf Network 2025 Conference
This project will organise a ‘greener golf’ conference in the Warwickshire area (covering Birmingham). The aim is to inform, encourage and inspire golf clubs to adopt ‘greener’ practices. A key outcome will be to set up a new, local network of clubs, councils and wildlife agencies for future collaboration.
Bats without Borders
Zambia
Going batty in Zambia
This collaborative project with BirdWatch Zambia, aims to improve habitats and connectivity for insect pollinators, birds and bats (e.g. planting, bat boxes, water quality). To increase resilience and sustainable urban spaces where humans and nature coexist and inspire communities to take action.
Fafali Organisation
Ghana
AquaArborAware: Bridging Communities to Nature Stewardship
AquaArborAware aims to educate Anumle community on river & forest conservation, empowering them to protect natural resources, fostering sustainable stewardship. Goals include reduced waste dumping, heightened environmental awareness, and empowered community stewardship.
Friends of Great Salt Lake
Salt Lake City, UT | USA
Lakeside Learning Field Trip Program
The Lakeside Learning Field Trip Program is a hands-on, environmental education program that brings over 2,000 fourth grade students to Great Salt Lake each year. This program helps students understand how they are connected to this ecosystem and how they can help protect it. It focusses on educating upstream water users to conserve on the Lake’s behalf.
Vicars Cross Golf Club
Chester | UK
16th – Eco Pond
This project will fund the renovation of an existing eco pond which needs major improvements to ensure it’s success. The project will encourage the restoration of original native flora and fauna and encourage further bio diversity.
Worksop Golf Club
Worksop, Nottinghamshire | UK
Heathland Regeneration
This project will create an onsite heather nursery that would allow the club to grow heather on an out of play area of the Golf Course, harvest heather turfs to then introduce around the course to regenerate and increase the existing heather population that has been neglected over the last 40 years.
Meg Wah (My Earth)
Cameroon
Meg Wah (My Earth)
This project aims to address the unsustainable cocoa farming practice in Tali by educating 100 small holder farmers to transition to sustainable practices. The expected outcomes include strengthened livelihoods of local farmers, enhanced farm productivity and improved environmental conservation.
The Land at Home Project, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ | USA
Veteran Land Management Mentorship
The program improves health & wellbeing through knowledge of land management techniques, community connectedness, and improved opportunities. Participants earn a University academic certificate, regenerative land management certification, and on-the-ground, hands-on mentorship from fellow veterans.
Stone Harbour Golf Club
NJ | USA
Native Plant Project
This project will see Stone Harbour GC purchase native grasses, shrubs, saplings, and aquatic plants for transplant, along with the seeding of wildflowers to supplement costs. The natives are specific to the New Jersey region and will incorporate as much out of play area as possible.
Newport Bay Conservancy
Newport Beach, CA | USA
Muth Interpretive Tours
These low-cost field trips connect students with their watershed and teaches about the importance of coastal wetlands. Newport Bay Conservancy aims to serve marginalized communities and Title 1 schools to increase environmental literacy, stewardship, and accessibility to this recreational space.