Deadline: 06-Sep-21
Hampshire County Council is inviting applications for its Waste Prevention Community Grant. For the purposes of this fund, ‘waste prevention’ is taken to encompass any actions which prevent or reduce the amount of household waste entering the local authority waste management system, and therefore includes: reuse, repair and home composting.
In addition to the environmental benefits of reducing household waste, waste prevention projects can also result in financial savings for residents, community benefits (e.g. volunteering opportunities) and health benefits (e.g. household management, healthy eating).
Grant Criteria
The maximum amount awarded to each project will be £5,000. There is no minimum amount. Applications will be ranked and scored based on their:
- Demonstrated impact in preventing household waste
- Innovation to services and/ or introducing new projects to local areas already proven to reduce household waste elsewhere
- Ability to be sustained post funding and/or have a legacy
- Social and community benefits.
- Experience in successfully delivering previous projects will also be assessed.
What is funded
Projects must demonstrate:
- That they will have an impact on the population within the Hampshire County Council administrative area
- That they do not duplicate activity in the local area (e.g. District/Town/Parish) that is already taking place
- Measurable reductions in the amount of household waste, e.g. through furniture reused, or food diverted from waste.
- Social benefits (jobs/volunteer posts created, number of residents trained etc)
- Who the project is likely to directly engage.
- How the project is innovative or new (to the local area).
- The methods used to effect behaviour change.
- Sustainability/and or a degree of ‘legacy’ in terms of waste prevention outcomes. The fund will only support new, or expansion of existing products and services. It will not pay for existing activities.
To try and help all residents across Hampshire gain access to Waste Prevention projects, The Council are particularly looking to fund the set-up of projects listed below:
- Initiatives to encourage reusable items, for example, reusable nappy libraries: (particularly in Havant, New Forest, East Hants, Fareham, Gosport, Rushmoor, Hart)
- Community composting: (particularly in Havant, East Hants, Locks Heath, Sarisbury Green, Gosport, Tadley, Winchester, Chandlers Ford, Aldershot, Fleet)
- Community food sharing schemes predominately using food from households: (Petersfield, Bordon, Fareham, Basingstoke, Andover, Eastleigh)
- Repair Cafes (Fareham, Aldershot).
Eligibility Criteria
- Community, neighbourhood or voluntary groups
- Registered charities
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Not-for-profit organisations (including social enterprises)
- Businesses with fewer than 250 employees, i.e. Small and medium sized enterprises
- Faith groups delivering community work
- Parish Councils
- Although the fund only supports projects which prevent household, rather than school waste, projects which educate and engage children and/or the local school community on waste prevention, reuse or repair will be eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/coronavirus/data-dashboard