Community Grants Scheme

We support community and environmental projects across England through the Landfill Communities Fund, using money provided to us by Veolia. We fund improvements to community buildings and outside spaces which are at the heart of the community for everyone and anyone to use. We fund a broad range of projects and each one is different.

Our Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and Environmental Bodies (EBs). Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.

Project Site - We will consider funding: ✓ structural improvement works to a single building or outdoor space which has public access: e.g. community centre, public park, play area, skate park, MUGA, sports ground, woodland, nature reserve, community garden, public right of way, inland waterway ✓ a project with all permissions (e.g. planning) in place prior to application. ✓ a project where the applicant is the landowner or has a formal agreement (e.g. a lease) with the landowner, with at least six years of the term remaining.

Project Site - We won’t consider funding: x a project that will take place in a theatre, museum, art gallery, schools and educational establishments, library, medical centre, hospital, police station, fire station, hospice, zoo, retail spaces, cafe, office/flexible workspace, allotment, graveyard, crematorium, road, car park or where there is on-site accommodation x historic building restoration, statues, monuments, memorials or art installations x the purchase of land or a building

Access - We will consider funding: ✓ a project to improve an outside space or community building available for everyone and anyone to use on a daily basis.

Access - We won’t consider funding: x a project site with restricted access e.g. prevents use by any person or user group defined by age, gender, disability, race, religion or belief.

Expenditure - We will consider funding: ✓ construction and/or improvement of buildings, or outdoor spaces. ✓ fixed items (e.g. kitchen cupboards and worksurfaces, boilers and radiators, windows and doors, toilets, fencing).

Expenditure - We won’t consider funding: x costs which have already been incurred (e.g. design fees, planning application fees). x furniture and equipment (e.g. kitchen and electrical appliances, sports equipment, lawnmowers, computers, audio and visual equipment, CCTV and Wifi). x running costs (e.g. staff salaries, rent and maintenance fees). x unidentified project costs (e.g. contingency).

Timescale - We will consider funding: ✓ a project that will physically start within four months of being awarded a grant. ✓ a project that will complete within 12 months of its start date.

Timescale - We won’t consider funding: x a project that forms part of a larger project. x a project that has already started or is anticipated to start before formal agreements are signed.

Finance - We will consider funding: ✓ a project with a total cost of no more than £250,000. ✓ a grant application requesting between £10,000 and £75,000. ✓ a project where the 10% CTP payment has been secured, which is required to release the grant.

Finance - We won’t consider funding: x a project that intends to generate an income for use other than for the upkeep of the project site.

There are four funding rounds each year, see the next closing date on our website. Only one application per project site will be considered in a 12 month period. We review our funding criteria quarterly, therefore it is important that you check our Criteria at the time you submit your application to make sure your grant request remains eligible. You can submit your completed application anytime from when the funding round opens to 12:00 midday on the closing date. Submit as soon as you are ready so we can review your application and let you know if you need to provide more information.

Our Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations, local authorities and Environmental Bodies (EBs).

Organisation - We will consider funding:

• an application from an organisation which:

• is charitable and operated on a not-for-profit basis
• is constituted, with a set of signed governing documents
• has been established for a minimum of two years
• has a minimum of two directors, trustees or committee members who are not related to each other
• does not financially benefit directors, trustees, members *an application from a local authority

• an organisation that accepts any grant awarded will incur an additional CTP cost .

Organisation - We won’t consider funding:. x an application from hospice, care home, emergency service, theatre, museum, art gallery, educational organisation including a pre-school, school, university or organisation with an affiliation to a school, including PTA.