Community Involvement...

Waste management is a community issue as well as a commercial enterprise and a social necessity.

That's why we work closely with local community groups at each of our sites. Constructive input from local groups is not only welcomed and valued but actively solicited.

Our community-based initiatives have led to the landscaping and screening of sites to minimise and even enhance visual impact. Where traffic re-routing is necessary we work hard to ensure that the solutions we implement disturb and disrupt local people as little as possible.

The extent of tree planting on and around sites is normally far in excess of the minimum requirements. Our policy is to take into account the priorities of neighbouring landowners and residents who are invited to participate in regular meetings.

     The Landfill Communities Fund -
     Financial Support for Community and
     Environmental Projects.

In 1996 the Government introduced a tax on waste going to landfill sites, partly as a means of helping to reduce the amount of waste going into the ground.  A tax credit scheme was introduced at the same time, allowing landfill operators to claim a credit against a percentage of their landfill tax.  Grundon contribute this credit (currently 6.8% of landfill tax) to an Environmental Body that will ensure the funds are used to support community and environmental projects.

In Oxfordshire, Grundon used to support the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE) (Please click here to link).  However, for a variety of reasons TOE will no longer be distributing funds through the Landfill Communities Fund and is looking at winding up by the spring of 2011. In the future, Grundon hope to be able to establish an alternative mechanism to ensure our landfill tax credits will still be available in Oxfordshire and that Community and environmental projects will still be able to access funding.

In Gloucestershire, our landfill tax credits are distributed by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (Please click here to link).

The Landfill Communities Fund is regulated by ENTRUST, the body set up by HM Revenue and Customs (Please click here to link).  Environmental Bodies are responsible for delivering projects or distributing funds to projects.  All projects have to be registered with ENTRUST and must comply with the Landfill Tax Regulations (as amended).

If you are part of an organisation and require funding for community and / or environmental projects, please search the web-sites provided above.  You can view the TOE annual report via the link below for examples of recent projects supported via the Scheme.  If you have any further questions, please contact Stephen Roscoe, Technical Director at estates@grundon.com.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife         Trust Membership

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