The Trust is committed to supporting community and environmental projects, such as improving community halls, creating new children’s play areas, restoring green spaces and habitats, and enhancing community sports and recreation facilities. To ensure grants are distributed in line with our guidelines and those of the Trust’s regulator ENTRUST, you must ensure your project meets two main requirements:

• The project must fulfil one of Enovert Community Trust’s five funding categories.
• It must be located within 10 miles of a landfill site operated by Enovert Management Limited, or within ten miles of a waste facility managed by the company.
• In addition, the Trustees of ECT take into account environmental factors when reviewing applications. The threat from climate change is well documented. The Government has recognised this requires urgent action and measures are being introduced to significantly reduce carbon emissions. Going forward this will mean projects will need to be increasingly energy efficient and less reliant on fossil fuels, for example by moving away from installing gas boilers.
• As a distributor of funding, the Trust is keen to address the challenge of climate change and reflect the policy direction of the Government. As such, even where measures are not yet mandatory, we will look favourably on projects which integrate energy efficiency and renewable energy into the design. Examples include measures such as excellent insulation and the use of air or ground source heat pumps. We consider that energy efficient installations should be considered as part of a whole building approach if possible.

In line with the Landfill Tax Regulations, Enovert Community Trust is able to support projects under the following categories, so please make sure that your project complies with one of the following objects:

• A – Opening up access for the public to an area of land that has been closed or partially closed up to now.
• B – Cleaning up land that has been polluted because of now ceased activity.
• D – Helping to improve, protect, provide and/or maintain land or a building as a public amenity.
• DA – Protecting the environment, and conserving or promoting biological diversity.
• E – Helping to preserve, maintain, restore and/or repair a religious building or one of historical or architectural interest.

The Trust meets quarterly. The currently planned deadlines for applications are:

• Deadline 30 Nov 2024 for a meeting on Tue 21 Jan 2025
• Deadline 28 Feb 2025 for a meeting on Tue 15 Apr 2025
• Deadline 23 May 2025 for a meeting on Tue 8 July 2025
• Deadline 5 Sept 2025 for a meeting on Tue 21 Oct 2025
• Deadline 5 Dec 2025 for a meeting on Jan 2026 (TBC)