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Veolia has announced the launch of its Annual Sustainability Fund for 2025, offering more than £150,000 to support community and environmental initiatives across the UK. The fund, open to not-for-profit organisations, community groups, and individuals living in areas served by Veolia’s recycling and waste services, provides grants typically up to £1,000 per project.
This year also marks an expansion in eligibility: alongside environmental projects that boost biodiversity and promote sustainable habits, the fund now welcomes social projects. Initiatives that offer employment support, aid rehabilitation, support youth, and strengthen communities are encouraged to apply.
Selection will prioritise projects with clear, lasting benefits for people or the planet, and those fostering strong community involvement. Past recipients have included community orchards, repair cafés, biodiversity corridors, school-based environmental education, and local waste reduction campaigns.
In celebration of the fund’s fifth anniversary, 2025 introduces a “bumper” grant of up to £5,000 for an exceptional project demonstrating remarkable community benefit
To qualify, applicants must operate within local authority areas where Veolia delivers its services. Full eligibility criteria and a list of qualifying areas can be found on the Veolia website, where applications are now open. The closing date for submissions is 30 September 2025.
A list of eligible areas can be found on the Veolia website (link below)
Previously successful projects 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.
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