WREN seeks applications from community groups

Howard Lake | 23 April 2007 | News

Waste Recycling Environmental Ltd (WREN) is encouraging community groups to take advantage of funding from the Landfill Communities Fund that it distributes.

WREN was founded nearly ten years ago and has been responsible for distributing almost £100 million to 4,000 needy projects across the UK.

The landfill tax credits it distributes are provided by the landfill operator Waste Recycling Group Ltd (WRG) which works with several local authorities and manages 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste each year.

WREN is able to use a proportion of the landfill tax that WRG collects to fund projects that improve the environment within 10 miles of a landfill site.

Recipients of the organisation’s grants vary widely from small community groups looking to build a village hall, to larger organisations such as The Woodland Trust and the RSPB.

Peter Cox, Managing Director of WREN, said: “Whether you are hoping to build a new playground, restore a historic building, or plant more trees WREN could be a source of funding for your project.

“We distribute £15 million annually for the benefit of communities, and are urging people involved in community projects to come forward and apply for a grant.”

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.