Veolia Environmental Trust: Community Grants

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 for projects that improve an outside space or community building available for everyone and anyone to use on a daily basis.

What can be funded:

• 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
• 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
• A project to improve an outside space or community building available for everyone and anyone to use on a daily basis
• 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)

Who can apply?

• An application from a constituted not-for-profit organisation (who's governing documents state members or directors receive no financial benefit)
• An application from a local authority
• An organisation that accepts any grant awarded will incur an additional CTP cost

Application Deadlines:

There are four funding rounds each year. Only one application per project site will be considered in a 12 month period.

The next funding rounds are as follows: