Up to ?1,000 EnviroGrant fund available

[Veolia Southwark]

The Southwark EnviroGrant scheme relaunches for its sixth year, offering community groups and schools the opportunity to be awarded up to ?1,000 for environmental projects that enrich the local area. Projects that help to reduce, reuse and recycle waste are particularly welcomed.

Established by Veolia, Southwark Council?s recycling and waste partner, the scheme has been designed to support communities with projects that benefit the local area. The voluntary assistance of Veolia employees can also be requested for any cleaning, building, painting, planting or other general tasks required in projects.

So far over ?17,000 has been awarded, benefiting 34 community projects in the borough. In 2015, projects included an environmental film screening (pictured), community gardening and composting, plastic bottle greenhouses, give and take days and more.

If you?re part of a community project and you?d like to apply for funding to support your plans, further information and an application form can be found at www.veolia.co.uk/southwark

The deadline for entries is 30 April 2016. Best of luck.

[alice]

why not spend that cash on free bulk waste collection which has just been stopped

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Alice for President.

[uncleglen]

Yes alice is right. On Monday I saw a sofa, a baby highchair, a large wooden box, a microwave...all dumped in the street and this was during a 10 minute walk.

Out of interest- are pensioners exempt from the charge does anyone know?

[monica]

SNUB have applied for these funds twice now, with no success.

[DadOf4]

alice Wrote:

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> why not spend that cash on free bulk waste

> collection which has just been stopped

post of the year

[kibris]

Didts they say they had no money,or is it just the cash the people have paid for the bulk waste removed.

[Veolia Southwark]

EnviroGrants are wholly funded by Veolia, not Southwark Council. The decision to end free bulky waste collections was a matter for Southwark Council.

[Blah Blah]

And with 40% cuts from central government since 2010, Southwark like any LA is struggling to maintain many services. If anyone wants to criticise Southwark charging for bulky waste collections, maybe write to David Cameron instead?

[BrandNewGuy]

... unless charging for bulk waste collection creates a great increase in fly tipping, which entails a greater cost to the council. So maybe the saving's not a saving at all. Did the council attempt to calculate the impact of their decision? 'Savage cuts' is no excuse for a possibly ill-thought out policy.

[Blah Blah]

Fly tippers though are not people putting out the odd sofa or washing machine are they, which is who the bulk refuse scheme is aimed at.

I'd hardly call charging a savage cut either. 73% cut to youth services is a savage cut, along with the coming cuts to adult social care, including care services for the elderly. Those are the extent of government cuts on Southwark. Compared to that, having to pay a tenner or whatever the charge will be to have your 'stuff' removed isn't really a big deal is it?

Or would you rather an elederly person has shorter care visits so that everyone can have their bulky items removed for free? If you can afford to buy a new anything, you can afford to pay to have the old one removed.

[BrandNewGuy]

I didn't say charging was a savage cut. I meant that those who defend any and every action of the council with a kneejerk "It's the cuts" response shut down any possible argument that the council might be sometimes cocking things up thmeselves.

And don't lay that guilt trip on me, man.

[Blah Blah]

But you used the words 'savage cuts' lol.

To be fair, the demographic of people that post or engage in debate on here is so narrow that proper balanced debate is a rare thing anyway.