No application deadline
Project sites must be within five miles of a significant Biffa Operation or within 10 miles if this is an active Biffa Landfill Site (check using the Postcode Checker)
Biffa Award’s Community Buildings theme aims to improve buildings at the heart of their communities, such as village halls, community centres and church halls.
Examples of costs that we can fund include renovations of community rooms, refurbishments of toilet facilities and kitchens, replacement doors and windows, extensions to create additional space that will benefit community groups, replacement of damaged floors and roofs, and new central heating systems.
Your organisation must be fully constituted, charitable or not-for-profit with no share capital.
Priority is given to projects that demonstrate a wider community benefit and need. Your building to be used by many groups regularly each week, benefiting people of different ages and demographics. Please note: If you are applying for a project in a sporting clubhouse, you should apply under our Recreation theme.
The project must be eligible for registration with the scheme’s regulator, and must meet the following criteria:
- Application value must be between £10,000 and £75,000
- Total project costs or its phases must not exceed £200,000 including VAT. Standalone elements of a wider project costing less than £200,000 are also excluded
- The project must ALSO be within 10 miles of a licensed landfill site (contact Entrust directly to check landfill proximity on: 01926 488300 and take note of the address as you will need this to make an application)
- A Third Party Contributor should be identified to fund 10% of the application value
- The project must not cross over different themes
- 75% of any shortfall funding must be secured if Biffa Award is not being asked to fully fund the project
- Minimum of 104 days of published and full public access each year
- If the organisation does not own the project site, a fully signed lease between the landowner and the applicant, with at least 10 years remaining must be in place. We cannot accept any other forms of agreement, including but not limited to, draft agreements, letters of intent, heads of terms, subleases or underleases.
- If planning permission is required, it must have been granted before you submit an Expression of Interest
A maximum of two Full Applications per financial year from any one organisation, and only one application per organisation will be considered at any Board meeting.
Visit the Biffa Award Community Buildings website page via this link – https://www.biffa-award.org/community-buildings/
