Previously known as the Cory Environmental Trust, the Enovert Community Trust is a Landfill Tax Credits grant programme that offers grants averaging around £50,000 to community and environmental projects within 10 miles of an Enovert Landfill site or waste facilities operated by the company. The relevant postcodes are:
- Billingham (TS23 4HS)
- Cheltenham (GL52 7RS)
- Cirencester (GL7 1YG)
- Colchester (CO3 0NN)
- Gloucester (GL2 5FR)
- Kingswinford (DY6 7JS)
- Lydney (GL14 4EJ)
- Middlesbrough (TS6 6UG)
- Southend-On-Sea (SS3 0NR)
- Walsall Wood (WS9 9AH)
- Weston-super-Mare (BS22 8NA)
Free Map Tools can be used to draw a 10-mile radius around any given postcode.
Projects must comply with at least one of the following objectives:
- Opening up access for the public to an area of land that has been closed or partially closed up to now
- Cleaning up land that has been polluted because of now ceased activity
- Helping to improve, protect, provide and/or maintain land or a building as a public amenity
- Protecting the environment, and conserving or promoting biological diversity
- Helping to preserve, maintain, restore and/or repair a religious building or one of historical or architectural interest.
Your facility must be available to the general public as much as possible, and no less than four evenings or two days a week, or for more than 104 days in any one year.
Applicants will be required to find a 10% matched contribution to the total project cost (this must come from a third party – ie not the applicant).
Further information is available on the Trust’s website.