About us

The Veolia Environmental Trust was established in 1997 under the Landfill Communities Fund.
We support a wide range of community and environmental projects throughout the UK. The money we use for grants is made available through the Fund.

Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc has supported this initiative by contributing nearly £47m since we were established, which to date has been used to help 1280 projects.

We have four regions each with a panel of representatives from community and environmental organisations, local authorities and Veolia Environmental Services. These panels appraise applications prior to review by the Trustees who make up our Board of Directors. The Board meets quarterly to consider applications and decide which projects should be supported.

We introduced the Veolia Cre8 Funding Challenge to help adventurous, exciting and ambitious projects get off the ground awarding a maximum of £300,000 each to fund schemes that best meet Veolia Cre8's eight objectives. The Veolia Cre8 grants have now been awarded - go to 'Veolia Cre8' to find out more.