Fund Delivery Strategy

The Fund's delivery strategy simply put is to stimulate efforts and measures that result in a reduction of the amounts of household waste produced in London and to improve the management of waste that cannot be avoided.

The Fund particularly wants to encourage and support imaginative and innovative projects that will help minimise waste, with the aim to bring under control the amounts of waste currently being produced. The Fund also aims to stimulate the collection, processing and reprocessing of waste through enabling and encouraging appropriate collection arrangements, handling and processing facilities and campaigns to encourage participation in these schemes. Through these developments the Fund will make a positive and important contribution to the efforts of waste authorities in London, and the residents they serve, to achieve levels of recycling and composting in excess of the overall 25% target for London in 2005/6.

The Fund set out in 2002 to encourage individual waste professionals, elected Members and waste authorities to demonstrate the imagination, foresight, will and daring to make it happen. Our delivery strategy continues to be to help unlock the imagination, foresight, will and daring that is within everyone wishing to meet or exceed the Government's recycling and composting targets.
Three common themes run through the approach being taken by the Fund. These are;

• Partnerships - between waste authorities (boroughs and statutory joint groupings) together, and with the private waste and resources sector, to develop jointly funded projects that have significant impact on the capacity to enable higher level of recycling, composting or diversion from landfill and to increase participation - all required to meet 2010 targets. Whilst partnership bids are preferred this does not exclude individual borough bids.
  
  
• Encouraging a more consistent approach, that is recognised as good practice, to waste reduction, reuse and recycling in London. This can be achieved by collective action by all waste authorities in London, to develop, agree and adopt good practice.
  
  
• Encouraging participation of individuals, households, groups and organisations, including waste authorities with the aim of maximising asset utilisation that has been funded through public and private sector funds

All applicants for funding will be required to demonstrate how they are working to achieve these common themes, through projects for which funding is sought. The evidence submitted as part of the application will be evaluated when funding is being considered.