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Celebrating the Landfill Communities Fund Celebrating the Landfill Communities Fund Protecting Wildlife for the Future Thanks to the Landfill L Communities Fund, d a n n and the organisations distributing it, we d u fi F l s have managed to help and protect the UK’s l e C ti om muni precious wildlife and iconic landscapes There are two ways in which landfill operators support projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. The first is via Distributive Environmental Bodies (DEBs) – the logos of the main UK DEBs are provided here. The second is direct funding to local organisations from the landfill operator. Both routes are equally and vitally important to supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts and we are extremely grateful to the hundreds of landfill operators, DEBs, Environmental Bodies and third party funders who have made our work possible. Award Building communities. Transforming lives. Celebrating the Landfill Communities Fund. Produced and edited by The Wildlife Trusts 2014. Written and designed by Helen Walsh/lonelycottage.co.uk. Printed by Seacourt using waterless offset printing and 100% recycled paper. Picture credits: Cover: Paul Harris/2020VISION/ naturepl.com; p3: De Meester/ARCO.naturepl.com; p4: Helen Walsh; p5: Alex Mustard, Helen Walsh; p6: Helen Taylour; p7: Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Devon Wildlife Trust; p8: Andy Sands/ naturepl.com, London Wildlife Trust; p9: Tom Marshall; p10: Helen Walsh; p11: Avon Wildlife Trust, Tanya Perdikou; p12: Markus Varesvuo/naturepl.com, Scottish Wildlife Trust; p13: The Wildlife Trusts, Wendy Carter; p14: Sue Daly/naturepl.com; p15: Cat Wilding, Cumbria Wildlife Trust; p16: Stephen Dalton/naturepl.com; p17: Tom Marshall, Scottish Beaver Trial; p18: David Kjaer/ naturepl.com, Paul Hobson, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Andy Sands/naturepl.com, Markus Varesvuo/naturepl.com; p19: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, Helen Walsh, Ross Hoddinott/naturepl.com, James Lowen/FLPA, Scottish Wildlife Trust; cover: Guy Edwardes/2020VISION/naturepl.com. Foreword This celebratory report is a way’’ for The Wildlife ‘‘Trusts to say “Thank you” to those organisations ver the last 18 years, the distributing the Landfill Otax collected from taking Communities Fund. waste to landfill has not only Simon King OBE, President, The Wildlife Trusts reduced waste by increasing recycling and reuse, but it has also provided a vital source of money for many causes across the UK. As a result, the Landfill Communities Fund has provided over one billion pounds of funding to a diverse range of environmental and community projects, including many undertaken by The Wildlife Trusts. Thanks to this, the Landfill Communities Fund has been instrumental in helping to restore and look after the UK’s wildlife, as well as getting people outside and caring for their local environment. It’s helped to ensure that our woodlands are alive with birdsong, meadows are humming with insects, and rivers are bubbling with life, now and for future generations. From building an eco-friendly visitor centre in Buckinghamshire, to reintroducing beavers in Scotland; restoring heathlands in Wales, to surveying sealife in Cornwall, there is no doubt that both our landscapes and local communities are richer for the help they have received. This celebratory report is a way for The Wildlife Trusts to say “Thank you” to those organisations distributing the Landfill Communities Fund, and to showcase the amazing range of work that has been done because of it. It’s also an opportunity to look forward at the role ‘green taxes’ can play in the future. The Fund has helped Wildlife Trusts to grow and develop, engage with a huge number of people, and protect special places for the future – we need to see even more of this in years to come. Simon King OBE President, The Wildlife Trusts Thanks to the LCF, beavers can now be seen in Scotland for the first time in 400 years Celebrating the Landfill Communities Fund 3 Funding nature’s recovery The Landfill the adverse impacts to communities Communities located close to landfill sites, a Fund significant amount of this revenue has, in recent years, been used to fund major important wildlife conservation work. A A consequence number of Distributive Environmental of living in an Bodies, working on behalf of their affluent country donor landfill operators, have carefully is the amount of formulated and implemented funding discarded goods, schemes to create amazing places rich barely used in wildlife for people to enjoy. items, use ‘once- only’ products Supporting conservation and excess This report is a recognition of packaging that has to be disposed of. the immensely valuable role the Rarely do we stop and think about Landfill Communities Fund has where the rubbish we leave out every played, and continues to contribute week goes. towards, achieving practical nature The ‘green tax’ conservation on the ground across the UK. It showcases some of the Fortunately, around 18 years ago, the vitally important work the Fund UK government introduced a new has supported, from creating new concept in tax collection that has forced reedbeds in the Great Fen, to us to change the way we view waste. conducting detailed surveys of the The Landfill Communities Fund is an seabed in Dorset. innovative ‘green’ tax that introduced targets to reduce the amount of rubbish Against a background of government going to landfill and started a new era cuts, and with the focus of other major in how we consider waste disposal. funders rarely being on the natural In 1996, it cost a mere £8/tonne to world, many of the distributors of the dump rubbish into landfill, but the tax Landfill Communities Fund recognised has gradually increased until, in 2014, it the urgent need to halt the continuing will reach £80/tonne, which means it is and, in some cases, devastating loss now cheaper to recycle rubbish than to of wildlife and wildlife habitats, and ‘dump’ it. have stepped in to fill the void. For example, over 20 years, Grundon But there has been another, Waste Management Ltd has supported unexpected and additional benefit Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, donating from the Landfill Tax, because the over £2 million to local wildlife rules allowed the landfill operators to conservation. Every grant requires 10% donate a percentage of the tax they of private funding to release the money, collect to community or environmental so our members and supporters also projects within 10 miles of a landfill play a really important part in making site. Conceived as a way of mitigating this work possible. 4 Every grant requires 10% of private’’ funding, so our ‘‘members and supporters Recognition for the Fund The challenge also play a really our natural important part in making The Landfill Communities Fund does not world faces this work possible. enjoy the widespread recognition that other can seem Stephanie Hilborne OBE, funders, such as the lottery bodies, have Chief Executive, The Wildlife Trusts immense. But gained. It has a lower profile and this report the reality is hopes to rectify that situation and ensure that with the right incentives for producers that the opportunity for more ‘green taxation’ and consumers alike, we can turn around our is taken seriously in the future. wastefulness and generate sufficient funds to Looking to the future solve some of the problems we have created. As the landfill monies start to diminish due to a Our thanks go to the foresight and decrease in waste going to landfill, the concept visionary thinking of all who have of ‘the polluter pays’ (where funding goes contributed to making the Landfill back into the restoration and repair of our Communities Fund such a successful natural environment) is surely an excellent and innovative scheme. May there be one that can, and should, be replicated. In an more similar initiatives to follow in the age of continuing austerity, this is a relatively coming years. painless way to fund essential restoration of terrestrial landscapes and marine wildlife. The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund provided similar benefits on a smaller scale until it was sadly terminated and simply retained by the Government. This should be Stephanie Hilborne OBE, reinstated. Chief Executive, The Wildlife Trusts Places like College Lake nature reserve, near Tring, have been restored Marine species like grey seals have been helped Celebrating the Landfill Communities Fund 5 Restoring the landscape Creating a Living Landscape Our nature reserves are precious wildlife sites, but to help nature recover, we need to think and work on a landscape-scale, working with others to join up, extend and recreate areas for nature. Essential funding is allowing us to save land for nature, restore natural processes and help wildlife to return, thrive and spread into The restoration of many precious the wider countryside. woodlands, such as Greno Woods in Sheffield, has been possible thanks to the Landfill Communities Fund 6 SITA support has enabled Derbyshire’’ Wildlife Trust to ‘‘make significant wetland River returned to its former glory wildlife improvements in the Trent Valley. n Transforming the Trent Valley Richard Spowage, Reserves Manager, n Derbyshire Wildlife Trust (DWT) Derbyshire Wildlife Trust n SITA Trust, £135,000, 2005-08 nce rich in wildlife, the Trent Valley Ohas been left a shadow of its former self by the effects of development and changing agricultural practices; reedbed, fen and wet grassland have almost vanished from this area. So DWT has developed a long-term vision to create a Living Landscape along the Derbyshire Trent Valley, creating a flourishing wildlife corridor and benefiting local communities. As part of this vision, the Trust received £135,000 from SITA Trust in 2005 to establish two new wetland nature reserves at Drakelow and Willington Gravel Pits, and link them to other local wetland habitats. The Trust worked hard to restore these reserves; for instance, works were carried out at Drakelow to give the river a more natural profile, helping wildlife to make its home here and increasing water quality.
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