Guidelines for Applicants

Guidelines for Applicants

Guidance on the Fund’s priorities

The Fund will be managed to work in partnership with local communities in the four Boroughs to promote sustainable waste management and support environmental improvements

Applications will be judged against the following criteria:
- Community benefit
- Community involvement
- Evidence of need
- Financial viability and value for money
- Sustainability
- Deliverability
- Support from the community, local authority, and other relevant bodies

The Fund aims to distribute equal amounts of grant to each of the four Boroughs covered by the Fund.

The Fund will be used to support short or long-term projects. In the case of long-term projects, which may take some time to develop or complete, grant will be set aside for the whole project. Payment of grant may be made in instalments. Grants are available for both revenue (the costs of running or maintaining a project) and capital costs (the costs of setting up or constructing a project).

The Fund will not normally provide a grant for projects where public use is restricted to small groups or private members, or for projects where there is a legal requirement or responsibility to carry them out.

It is not an absolute requirement to provide match funding, although it is seen as adding value to a project proposal. If the WREF funding is a small part of a much larger project then the WREF would like to identify a specific element which they have supported.

Projects receiving a grant are required to acknowledge the support from the Fund (through signs, leaflets, etc).

Project Approval Process

Eligible Projects

Does my project qualify?
Under the Landfill Tax regulations set by the Government, the WREF is restricted to supporting certain categories of project. Within this the Fund chooses to support projects in categories D and DA. These are listed in the table below with examples of projects which have been supported by WREF funds.

Eligible Projects		Examples

D The provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or public amenity where it is for the protection of the environment NB: ENTRUST considers that the wording ‘ for protection of the environment’ includes the protection of the social and built environment as well as the natural environment.		Over £1 million has been allocated to category D projects which have extensive community involvement and benefit. • A church in North Kensington has benefited from funding to transform some waste ground into a community garden (£5K) • Local children, living on a housing estate in Hammersmith and Fulhum will benefit from improvements to their playground (£20,000) • The Green in Waterloo, Lambeth, has undergone improvements including a new wildlife garden and will be installing benches and signs for the benefit of the local community and visitors to the area (£13,000)
DA Delivery of biodiversity conservation for UK species habitats		Local residents in North Kensington will benefit from a project that will transform building rooftops into “green roofs”. This will enhance biodiversity wildlife spaces in a busy urban environment.

For more information on any of the above and the latest news please visit: http://www.ltcs.org.uk/

For more information please contact us:
Western Riverside Environmental Fund
12 Baron Street, London, N1 9LL
Tel: 020 72781514, Email: london@groundwork.org.uk