Biffawards

Landfill Tax credit scheme: Flagship Programme reopens


Biffawards, which awards grants to community and environmental projects through monies raised from landfill tax credits donated by Biffa Waste Services has announced, that it's "Flagship" Programme is to re-open for applications in spring 2010.

Through its "Flagship" Programme, Biffawards supports regionally or nationally significant voluntary sector led regeneration or biodiversity projects.

Flagship projects involve the community working together with a variety of partner organisations to have a major impact on quality of life and/or the environment.

Suitably qualified organisations can apply for grants of between £150,000 - £500,000.

Projects must be site-based, within 25 miles of a Biffa operation and ten miles of an active landfill site.

Biffa operations in the South West are (as of 22 October 2009):

The organisation making the application must be eligible to enrol with ENTRUST (http://www.entrust.org.uk/)  as an Environmental Body.

Previously supported projects include:

 

Ø      a grant of £257,529 to Groundwork London to develop a Flagship Playscape project at King Georges Fields, Ealing, which aims to break the mould of the risk-averse traditional children's play areas;

Ø      the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire & Peterborough who won a Flagship grant of £389,930 towards the Great Fen Project. This project, which demonstrated regional and national significance, with long term benefits for biodiversity and communities, will restore more than 3,000 hectares of wildlife habitat to the Cambridgeshire Fens.

 

For more information, go to:  http://www.biffaward.org/about/foverview

last updated on 27th November 2009