Rural Development Service: Rural Enterprise Scheme £136,793

Big Lottery Fund £96,631

Landfill Tax credit funding: Waste Recycling Group Ltd £39,872.



The England Rural Development Programme
and Rural Enterprise Scheme

The ERDP comprises ten separate but integrated schemes designed to help the rural community protect the countryside and adapt to the demands of an increasingly competitive rural economy.

The Rural Enterprise Scheme (RES) is part of the England Rural Development Programme (ERDP). It provides assistance for projects that help to develop more sustainable, diversified and enterprising rural economies and communities.


Big Lottery Fund

Big Lottery Fund is the joint operating name of the New Opportunities Fund and the National Lottery Charities Board (which made grants under the name of the Community Fund). Big Lottery Fund, launched on 1 June 2004, is distributing half of all National Lottery good cause funding across the UK.

Big Lottery Fund is building on the experience and practice of the merged bodies to simplify funding in those areas where they overlap and to ensure National Lottery funding provides the best possible value for money.


The Landfill Tax Credit Scheme

The Landfill Tax Credit Scheme (www.ltcs.org.uk) currently gives waste management companies the opportunity to invest up to 6.8% of their Landfill Tax bill into community and environmental, projects in their immediate area. Projects applying for grants from Wren, who distribute and administer the Landfill Tax Credits generated by the Waste Recycling Group Ltd , are assessed by an individual panel of locally based experts in each County for their suitability, sustainability and community benefit.