The Environmental Key Fund is an incorporated company established in 2004 to distribute Landfill Community Fund (LCF) monies to environmental and community based projects.

This money is made available through landfill tax monies provided to the Environmental Key Fund by North Lanarkshire Council (as a local landfill operator) and is governed by guidance set out by ENTRUST as the regulatory body for this fund. Projects which are eligible to receive grant funding from the Environmental Key Fund must meet at least one LCF object as set out in ENTRUST’s guidance:

• to remediate contaminated land or water.
• to reduce or mitigate the effects of pollution.
• to provide or improve a park or other public amenity for leisure or recreational purposes.
• to conserve biodiversity at a specific site.
• to maintain, repair or restore a place of worship or building of historical or architectural significance.

To date, the Environmental Key Fund has distributed/committed over £620,000 in LCF funding to groups and organisations across North Lanarkshire and has in the region of a further £1M to distribute between June 2009 and March 2012.