Severn Waste Services
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In 1996 the UK Government introduced the Landfill Tax as a means of discouraging the practice of 'cheap’ landfilling of waste. In parallel, it set up the LCF (formerly known as the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme), through which some of the revenue could be channelled into environmental and community projects.
The scheme allows landfill operators like SWS to contribute money towards good causes and since the scheme began, the company has contributed over £10 million towards approved projects across the two counties.
The Company has made its contributions via the Severn Waste Environmental Fund and through enrolled Environmental Bodies.
In 2004 SWS had been considering how to support conservation projects which gave a permanent benefit in the area near to its landfill site at Throckmorton, in the Vale of Evesham. When VLHT publicised one of its volunteer working parties in the Evesham Journal that year, contact was made and the two organisations have worked together ever since. The first funds secured through the LCF made it possible for VLHT to purchase Gore Meadows near Fladbury and also a large area of floodplain at North Littleton near Offenham, known as Littleton Meadows. These sites have been brought back into traditional floodplain meadow management and the characteristic wildflowers are returning. Further land purchases followed and appropriate tools and machinery were acquired to manage the sites. SWS have also funded the recruitment and management of volunteers, vital to the success of the Trust.
Thanks to this funding, Vale Landscape Heritage Trust has so far been able to secure the future of nearly 350 acres of landscape heritage in the Vale of Evesham and surrounding area.
The scheme allows landfill operators like SWS to contribute money towards good causes and since the scheme began, the company has contributed over £10 million towards approved projects across the two counties.
The Company has made its contributions via the Severn Waste Environmental Fund and through enrolled Environmental Bodies.
In 2004 SWS had been considering how to support conservation projects which gave a permanent benefit in the area near to its landfill site at Throckmorton, in the Vale of Evesham. When VLHT publicised one of its volunteer working parties in the Evesham Journal that year, contact was made and the two organisations have worked together ever since. The first funds secured through the LCF made it possible for VLHT to purchase Gore Meadows near Fladbury and also a large area of floodplain at North Littleton near Offenham, known as Littleton Meadows. These sites have been brought back into traditional floodplain meadow management and the characteristic wildflowers are returning. Further land purchases followed and appropriate tools and machinery were acquired to manage the sites. SWS have also funded the recruitment and management of volunteers, vital to the success of the Trust.
Thanks to this funding, Vale Landscape Heritage Trust has so far been able to secure the future of nearly 350 acres of landscape heritage in the Vale of Evesham and surrounding area.
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Further Information:
SWS Website
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ENTRUST Website
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