Veolia's Sustainability Fund;
transforming local communities and environments.
Applications are closed. The Sustainability Fund will open again in Spring 2025.
If you have a project idea that will help transform your local community or environment continue reading to learn how to apply!
Since we launched the Sustainability Fund in 2021, we've supported over 260 projects with over £200,000 in funding.
There are so many inspiring projects we're proud to have supported so we've picked out just a few from last year to share with you:
- Hammersmith & Fulham’s Nourish Hub - Scrap and Pickle Course is run by a community kitchen. Funding will help them run a cookery course that teaches people how to pickle, ferment and preserve foods to learn creative ways to love your leftovers and end food waste.
- Hampshire’s Chineham Repair Cafe will help local residents to truly Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle. Volunteers run these Repair Cafes, amongst many others across the country receiving funding this year, saving valuable items and materials from the bin and teaching residents useful skills.
- Brunswick Playground In Southwark is going from grey to green with a dedicated group of parents and volunteers who will use the funding to build green walls around We want to create the perimeter of the school playground, encouraging biodiversity, offering shade and catching air pollution.
- West Northamptonshire’s East Hunsbury Litter Pickers noticed that more and more young people are showing a keen interest in helping to keep their local environments clean. To encourage and support this enthusiasm, the Sustainability Fund will help them build a library of litter picking equipment.
- Haringey’s Great Big Green Week is one of the biggest annual events the Sustainability Fund supports each year. Amongst the many projects hosted by inspiring local volunteers was this year’s PLASTIQUE by Siân workshops where visitors to the festival were invited to transform everyday waste into creative works of art.
What is the Sustainability Fund?
The Sustainability Fund will provide cash sponsorship, in-kind resources or staff volunteers to support not-for-profit organisations and community groups to transform their local community or environment.
A successful project will provide evidence of one or more of the following:
- Enhancing biodiversity
- Promoting sustainable waste behaviours (reduce, reuse and/or recycle)
- Protecting or preserving resources and the environment
- Its use of recycled, reused or reclaimed materials
Veolia’s team looks favourably on projects that have considered the long-term or ongoing benefits for the community and will consider all projects based on merit.
Larger projects that require more funding are sometimes considered.
Who is it for?
Any not-for-profit organisation, community group or individuals can apply to the Sustainability Fund.
How to apply?
Got a fantastic idea to improve your local community or transform your local environment? If you tick our criteria, we’d love to hear from you!
Where is it available?
We consider applications from projects where we work with the Local Authority.
To find out if we work in your area, check this list:
Birmingham
Brent
Broadland
Bromley
Buckinghamshire: Chiltern, Wycombe, South Buckinghamshire
Camden
Chesterfield
Croydon
East Kent - Dover, Folkestone & Hythe
Garston
Greenwich
Halebank
Hammersmith & Fulham
Hampshire
Haringey
Kingston
Lambeth
Medway
Merton
South Downs - East Sussex, Brighton & Hove
Southend
Southwark
St Albans
Sutton
Tendring
Watford
West Berkshire
Westminster
West Northamptonshire
Wyre
The Fund will open again in Spring 2025.
Apply
Applications are closed. The Fund will open again in Spring 2025.
APPLY VIA FORM
If you're looking for sponsorship, donations in kind or volunteers, please apply to the Sustainability Fund via our Google Form.
APPLY VIA SPACEHIVE
If you want to unlock more funds from Veolia and members of your community for a bigger project, upload your plans to the crowdfunding platform, Spacehive and pitch to the Fund!
Check back in Spring 2025 for your chance to get up to £1,000 in funding!
