The first round of funding for 2022 is now open for capital projects that improve community facilities, enhance the local environment, and protect threatened habitats and biodiversity in communities near qualifying Veolia sites.
Veolia Environmental Trust is offering grants to constituted, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities, and environmental bodies enrolled with ENTRUST to support projects that make improvements to community facilities and the natural environment in communities located near a qualifying Veolia site in England.
The following grants are available:
- Community Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for capital improvement/construction projects at a single site, such as community buildings and spaces, outdoor spaces, play and recreational spaces, or the installation of fixed items such as kitchen cupboards and work surfaces.
- Habitat and Biodiversity Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for projects resulting in structural improvements for a single habitat that will conserve, restore, and enhance threatened habitats and protect/increase biodiversity.
- Environmental Improvement Grants start at £75,000 for ambitious and imaginative projects that will make a local, regional, national, and global impact on the environment by protecting and expanding threatened habitats and increasing biodiversity.
Funding can cover capital costs for projects such as the development and maintenance of community sites or facilities, the restoration or conservation of natural habitats, longer, more substantial environmental projects, and staff costs that directly relate to completing physical improvements at a project site.
There are four funding rounds per year. Only one application per project site will be considered per year.
The current round is for projects starting in Summer 2022.
The deadline for applications is 24 March 2022 (noon).
How To Apply
There are four funding rounds each year. It is important that groups apply at the right time, as only one grant application may be submitted per project site, in a 12-month period.
The next application windows are:
- 27 January 2022 to 24 March 2022 (noon) with a decision by 7 June 2022.
- 26 May 2022 to 07 July 2022 (noon) with a decision by 6 September 2022.
Applicants should refer to the new guidance notes/criteria which are available to download from the Trust's website.
Please note the criteria is reviewed quarterly. Applicants need to read the criteria that is current at the time that they are making an application to ensure their grant request remains eligible.
Community grant applications will be reviewed against the following:
- How much the project will benefit the general public
- What evidence has been provided that the project is needed
- The opportunities for volunteering and community involvement that will be created or maintained by the project.
- The effect the project will have on the environment.
- The financial viability and sustainability of the project.
- Index of Multiple Deprivation
Limited funding is available each round and grants are awarded to the projects which most closely match the Trust’s funding priorities.
Environmental Improvement Grant applicants will need to submit a proposal. Full details can be found in the guidance notes on the Trust's website. The Trust will contact applicants within five days to discuss the proposal and the next steps.
Contact Veolia Environmental Trust for further information.
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
- Trust Team
Veolia Environmental Trust
Ruthdene
Station Road
Four Ashes
Wolverhampton
WV10 7DG
Tel: 0203 567 6820
Email: [email protected]