Community facilities
Improving community buildings and other facilities that provide a public amenity.
Celebrating 30 years of the Landfill Communities Fund
2026 marks 30 years since the Landfill Communities Fund was established.
For more than 30 years, the LCF has invested in communities and environments 
across England and Northern Ireland, helping to fund projects that make a meaningful and lasting difference to local people and places. At GrantScape, we are proud to have played a part in that story. As an enrolled Environmental Body, we work with landfill operators to turn their contributions into meaningful investment in local communities.
Throughout the LCF’s 30th anniversary year, we’ll be celebrating some of the projects, partnerships and people that demonstrate the difference this funding can make.
How does the Landfill Communities Fund work?
Landfill operators can make voluntary contributions to enrolled Environmental Bodies, such as GrantScape, and receive a Landfill Tax credit against qualifying contributions. Environmental Bodies then use LCF monies to support projects that meet the objectives of the scheme. ENTRUST regulates Environmental Bodies and projects on behalf of HM Revenue & Customs.
GrantScape manages LCF programmes on behalf of several landfill operators, providing support throughout the funding process, from programme design and application management through to assessment, grant monitoring, reporting and communications.
This helps our partners deliver their funding effectively while ensuring communities can access investment that creates meaningful, lasting impact.
What can Landfill Communities Fund grants support?
LCF funding can support a range of eligible community and environmental projects.
The exact criteria vary between individual funding programmes, but eligible projects can include:
Public parks and amenities
Creating, maintaining or improving parks, recreational spaces and other amenities available to the public.
Biodiversity and the environment
Protecting and conserving habitats and species in their natural environment.
Heritage
Maintaining, repairing or restoring eligible places of worship and buildings or structures of architectural or historic interest.
Please note: Eligibility criteria vary between funds. Applicants should always check the criteria for the individual fund before applying.
Landfill community funds managed by GrantScape
GrantScape works with landfill operators to administer landfill community funding programmes that support communities and environmental projects across England and Scotland.
