Veolia's Sustainability Fund;
transforming local communities and environments.
Applications are open!
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 425 incredible projects with over £300,000 in funding.
Now in its fifth year, the Sustainability Fund is expanding to include social projects alongside environmental initiatives. This broader focus now welcomes projects that strengthen the local community, including but not limited to: employment support programmes, rehabilitation projects, and youth development initiatives.
Previously successful projects that are delivering long-term social and environmental benefits to local communities include:
- Haringey’s Friends of Hartington Park and Carbuncle Passage are transforming Carbuncle Passage into a thriving biodiverse nature corridor by installing planters, with brightly painted murals making the Passage a more welcoming space.
- Birmingham's Fruit and Nut Village is a local, volunteer-run network of ‘Forest Gardens’, made up of nearly 70 orchards across the city. The funding will be channelled into compost, tools and plants to transform more sites. Volunteers harvest a diverse range of food, from apples to walnuts, plums, and rhubarb, and produce is distributed to those most in need.
- Southwark's Surrey Docks Farm updated their signage promoting sustainability practices on site as well as increasing their recycling and waste infrastructure around the charitable farm and cafe.
- In St Albans, Civic Rose Garden Regeneration revitalised the Civic Rose Garden to enhance its natural beauty and increase biodiversity. This will also provide local residents with opportunities to volunteer and gain new skills in the field of horticulture.
What is the Sustainability Fund?
The Sustainability Fund provides cash sponsorship, in-kind resources or staff volunteers to support not-for-profit organisations, community groups, and individuals 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
- Improving social wellbeing
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.
Who is it for?
Any not-for-profit organisations, community groups 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
Camden
Chesterfield
Croydon
East Kent - Dover, Folkestone & Hythe
East & North Herts
Garston
Greenwich
Halebank
Hammersmith & Fulham
Hampshire
Haringey
Harlow
Kingston
Lambeth
Medway
Merton
Sheffield
South Downs - East Sussex, Brighton & Hove
Southwark
South Buckinghamshire
Solihull
St Albans
Stafford
Sutton
Tendring
Watford
West Berkshire
Westminster
West Northamptonshire
Wyre
