SITA Trust's Funding Programmes for 2015-16

Monday 20 April 2015

SITA Trust provides funding for physical improvements to community leisure amenities through the Landfill Communities Fund. Not for profit organisations including charities, local authorities and councils can apply. We support projects that make physical improvements to community leisure facilities and historic buildings / structures.

Following the announcement in the 2015-16 Budget that tax credits would be able to be diverted to the Landfill Communities Fund (5.7%). Our Board has agreed the following programmes for the coming year:

Primary Fund - Now open

We support projects that make physical improvements to community leisure facilities and historic buildings / structures in any of 100 funding zones around qualifying sites owned by our donor, SITA UK. This year grants of up to £50,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations whose significant community leisure amenity improvement project has an overall cost of no more than £250,000.

Full details of this fund can be found here

Smaller Projects Fund - Now open

We appreciate that sometimes a small capital investment can make a huge difference to a community. Therefore we offer grants of up to £20,000 towards smaller projects with an overall cost of less than than £40,000.

Through this fund we are looking to support applicants requesting capital funding for smaller projects that take a matter of weeks or months to complete. No compliant project is considered too small and there is no minimum funding amount. Project sites must fall within a funding zone.

Full details of this fund can be found here

Accessing Nature Fund - Coming Soon

The natural environment continues to face many challenges and there is growing recognition that it will only be fully valued and appreciated if people are given compelling opportunities to experience and enjoy it first hand. With this in mind, this summer SITA Trust will launch its new Accessing Nature programme which will fund capital works to increase and improve opportunities to access to the great outdoors. We’ll be accepting England wide applications for a wide range of projects including, but not limited to: providing access to nature reserves and wildlife areas, creating community pond dipping areas or bird watching hides and installing wildlife interpretation.

The SITA Trust team will be working on building this programme over the coming months and, as soon as we can, we’ll open the application process to not for profit organisations across England.