Landfill Communities Fund: Conservation of a Species/Habitat
Overview
The Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) is an innovative tax credit scheme enabling operators of landfill sites in England, Northern Ireland and Wales to contribute money to organisations enrolled with ENTRUST as Environmental Bodies (EBs). EBs carry out projects in England, Northern Ireland and Wales that comply with the objectives (Objects) set out in The Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 (Regulations). There are five main areas of work ('objects') that qualify for funding under the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF).
Object DA: The conservation or promotion of biodiversity.
Overarching Principles:
This object seeks the conservation or promotion of biodiversity through:
- The provision, conservation, restoration or enhancement of a natural habitat, or
- The maintenance or recovery of a species in its natural habitat; and
- The proposed conservation site must be in the vicinity of a landfill site.
Your project application will need to provide details of:
- the conservation site;
- the conservation work proposed;
- the species or habitat that will be conserved by the project; and
- how far the project site is from a licensed landfill site.
There are two methods of receiving funding through the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF);
- from an Environmental Body (EB) that distributes the monies on a Landfill Operator's behalf (a distributive Environmental Body); or
- directly from a Landfill Operator (LO) based in England or Northern Ireland.
The majority of projects receive funding via a distributive EB and they would recommend applying to these organisations before seeking funding directly from a Landfill Operator.
You can find a list of EBs who may fund in your area using their funders search.
Entrust are the Government appointed regulator of the LCF and do not provide funding.
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