# SITA Trust offers £250,000 to three organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/29/sita-trust-offers-250000-three-organisations/
- Published: 2007-07-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**SITA Trust, a major funder of projects within the Landfill Communities Fund, is
offering a one-off grant of £250,000 to three individual projects, in three different
categories. **

These are Heritage (historic buildings, churches, castles etc), Community (playgrounds,
museums, parks etc) and Sport (hockey, cricket, football clubs etc).

## Community Challenge Fund

The funding stream is called the “Community Challenge Fund” and is part of SITA 
Trust’s ‘Enhancing Communities’ programme.

## Advertisement

The Trust has given examples of the sort of community projects that could be funded:

• A zoo, that wants to build a new, state of the art aquarium

• A history museum that wants to extend its building to provide a cyber café and
information centre

• A science museum that wants to build a state of the art, digital planetarium

• A city farm that wants to build a new barn to encourage more visitors throughout
the year, whatever the weather

• A regional park that wants to build an adventure playground near to its visitor
centre

The application deadline is 27 September 2007.

SITA Trust provides funding for community improvement projects within 10 miles of
an active SITA UK landfill site and environmental projects within ten miles of any
active landfill site. Since 1997 the Trust has allocated over £55 million to more
than 1,450 projects across the UK.

 * ** [How to ensure the best chances of success for your funding applications](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/01/11/how-to-ensure-the-best-chances-of-success-for-your-funding-applications/)(
   11 January 2022)
 * **[Funding round-up – national and local opportunities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/01/09/funding-round-up-national-local-opportunities/)(
   9 January 2023)
 * **[Irish foundation announces new environmental funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/03/11/irish-foundation-announces-new-environmental-funding/)(
   11 March 2019)**