A new grant funding programme to help communities living within 5 miles of certain waste transfer stations or landfill sites take action for their local environment.
What is it?
The Landfill Disposals Tax Communities Scheme is a new Welsh
Government funding programme managed by WCVA. The scheme will
support local community and environmental projects in areas
affected by the disposal of waste to landfill.
How much funding is available?
Grants of between £5,000 and £49,999 will be available
for projects that meet scheme criteria. The fund size is £1.4
million per annum.
WCVA may award a grant to one Nationally Significant project per
year - with a value of between £50,000 and £250,000.
Who and what will it fund?
The Autumn 2018 grant round is
now open.
Closing date 18 January 2019
Projects may begin from April 2019 with an end date no
later than September 2021.
Please click here for further
information.
The fund will be open to any organisation for projects focusing on
one or more of the following themes:
Biodiversity - create Resilient Ecological
Networks for the benefit of a range of habitats and species:
- Improve conditions to help native species, pollinators and
provide opportunities for new planting
- Restore, maintain and enhance natural habitats
- Engage and support participation and understanding to embed
biodiversity
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Waste Minimisation and the Diversion of Waste from
Landfill - promote awareness and best
practice to reduce the amount of waste produced:
- Encourage prevention, re-use, recovery and recycling of
waste
- Reduce food waste and support initiatives such as
composting
- Engage and support understanding to enable waste to be seen as
a resource
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Wider Environmental
Enhancements - bring wider community benefit
through improving quality of place:
- Create community green spaces and supporting green
infrastructure
- Bring neglected and run-down areas back into community use
- Maintain or improve community facilities, for example community
halls
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The Nationally Significant Grant seeks to fund
a project which will contribute to two or more of the themes above
with broad applicability across wider areas of Wales.
Please contact ldtgrants@wcva.org.uk
or your local County Voluntary
Council for further enquiries.
