Project Administration

A small in-house implementation and development team has become an important feature of the London Recycling Fund. Feedback indicates that its activities have been highly valued by waste authorities seeking funding and those running funded projects, and by their waste and resources sector partners, as well as others associated with the Fund.

In addition to dealing with the applications to the Fund, the team worked to stimulate partnerships and encourage potential applicants to commit their own additional contributions ("additionality") to project budgets - so that the aim to double the value of the core DEFRA funding could be realised.

To deliver this the team worked closely with London waste authorities and potential private sector partners. The team complements the authorities' own project management arrangements through an independent review and monitoring process. Without this many projects would not keep to the expenditure, claims and reporting timetable that is a condition of the agreements that LWA has with its funding bodies.

For the 2002/4 programme the operating costs of the Fund team were met through landfill tax credits and the Legacy Fund, together with contributions from the GLA and the ALG and DEFRA.

For the 2004/6 programme these costs were met by an agreed percentage deduction from the core funds.