Deadline: 9-Feb-25
Submissions are now open for Love Essex Fund to support local organisations, individuals, and schools with projects that create or inspire a reduction in household waste.
Funding Information
- This funding is provided through micro-grants of up to £500.
Eligible Projects
- The Love Essex Fund is for projects that:
- Reduce the amount of waste being produced in households
- Provide skills and opportunities to the community to repair and reuse items
- Prevent specific types of waste from being thrown away
- Inspire people and communities to be creative and sustainable with their waste
- Are based in Essex
- Projects which could receive funding include:
- Repair café events and skills-sharing workshops
- Refill shops
- Clothes swaps and sharing events
- Textiles and toys redistribution organisations
- Educational talks related to reuse and repair
- Upcycling specialists
- Bike, furniture and electronics repair organisations
- ‘Library of Things’ projects
- Anything that involves keeping products in use and away from landfill, either via reuse or repair practices
Ineligible Projects
- They are unable to fund the following:
- Projects that involve commercial waste. Projects must be related to reducing waste in households
- Ongoing running costs and pre-existing day to day activities (such as rent, wages, legal fees, expenses, utility bills)
- Litter bins in public locations
- Activities that promote or are run by politically-motivated organisations
- Projects where applicant cannot demonstrate compliance with all relevant legislation
For more information, visit Love Essex.