Sustainability Fund

Sustainability Fund is sponsored by Veolia UK. The Veolia Sustainability Fund provides support to not-for-profit organisations, community groups, and individuals for projects that transform their local community or environment. Previously successful projects have included 'Forest Gardens'.

Sustainability Fund | Communities | Veolia UK Veolia's Sustainability Fund; transforming local communities and environments. Applications will open on 5 June 2026 Since we launched the Sustainability Fund in 2021, we've supported over 641 incredible projects with over £500,000 in funding. In 2025, to celebrate its fifth year, the Sustainability Fund expanded to include social projects alongside environmental initiatives.

This broader focus now welcomes projects that strengthen the local community, including but not limited to: employment support programmes, rehabilitation projects, and youth development initiatives.

Previously successful projects that are delivering long-term social and environmental benefits to local communities include: Haringey’s Friends of Hartington Park and Carbuncle Passage are transforming Carbuncle Passage into a thriving biodiverse nature corridor by installing planters, with brightly painted murals making the Passage a more welcoming space.

Birmingham's Fruit and Nut Village is a local, volunteer-run network of ‘Forest Gardens’, made up of nearly 70 orchards across the city. The funding will be channelled into compost, tools and plants to transform more sites. Volunteers harvest a diverse range of food, from apples to walnuts, plums, and rhubarb, and produce is distributed to those most in need.

Southwark's Surrey Docks Farm updated their signage promoting sustainability practices on site as well as increasing their recycling and waste infrastructure around the charitable farm and cafe. In St Albans, Civic Rose Garden Regeneration revitalised the Civic Rose Garden to enhance its natural beauty and increase biodiversity.

This will also provide local residents with opportunities to volunteer and gain new skills in the field of horticulture. What is the Sustainability Fund? The Sustainability Fund provides cash sponsorship, in-kind resources or staff volunteers to support not-for-profit organisations, community groups, and individuals to transform their local community or environment.

A successful project will provide evidence of one or more of the following: Promoting sustainable waste behaviours (reduce, reuse and/or recycle) Protecting or preserving resources and the environment Its use of recycled, reused or reclaimed materials Improving social wellbeing Veolia’s team looks favourably on projects that have considered the long-term or ongoing benefits for the community and will consider all projects based on merit.

Any not-for-profit organisations, community groups or individuals can apply to the Sustainability Fund. Got a fantastic idea to improve your local community or transform your local environment? If you tick our criteria, we’d love to hear from you!

We consider applications from projects where we work with the Local Authority. To find out if we work in your area, check this list: East Kent - Dover, Folkestone & Hythe South Downs - East Sussex, Brighton & Hove Applications will open again on 5 June 2026.