Report: Government-backed Covid recovery fund creates more than 2,600 green jobs

Stuart Stone
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Grants from the £80m government-backed Green Recovery Challenge Fund have helped create thousands of jobs in the environmental sector since September 2020, report claims

More than 2,600 jobs have been created in the environmental sector over the past three years thanks to a government-backed funding scheme which provided £80m-worth of green grants to support organisations...

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