NEAT STREETS GRANTS (ROUND 2)
Fast-food retailer McDonald’s will award 5 grants of £10,000 over the next 12 months to support local authorities and local communities in order to encourage litter reduction and boost recycling.
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o Application deadline: WEDNESDAY 8th JANUARY 2025. The programmes is scheduled to reopen in November 2024. Organisations interested in applying can sign up to receive an email alert when the fund reopens.
o Funder: McDonald’s UK (McDonald’s is the well-known American multinational fast-food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. McDonald’s has over 36,000 restaurants across the world (1,300 in the UK), operating in over 100 countries and territories. There are approximately 120,00 people employed by McDonald’s UK and over one million worldwide. A UK store locator is available at this LINK). The Neat Streets Grant scheme is managed by the environmental charity Hubbub on behalf of McDonald’s.
o Who can apply: UK registered charities, social enterprises (including Community Interest Companies), local authorities, Business Improvement Districts, Owners of Public Space, Transport Hubs (such as Railway Stations and Airports).
o Key words: Reducing Litter, Increasing Recycling, Public Space, United Kingdom.
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As with Round 1 of the fund, Round 2 of the Neat Street Grant scheme has 5 grants to give out over the next 12 months, and aims to allocate 1 – 2 grants of £10,000 every 3 months to allow applicants time to prepare their bid. The next deadline for applications is on Wednesday 8th January 2025.
To overarching aim of the Fund is to help support local authorities tackle litter and recycling by providing grant to replicate a Hubbub campaign in local communities in order to encourage litter reduction and boost recycling.
The campaign should be one of those featured in the free resources section:
o Tidy Roadsides – targeted at drivers and roadside litter.
o [Name of city]’s Binning (e.g. Bristol’s Binning) – targeted towards young adults and aimed at urban environments.
o Love Your Forest – targeted towards visitors to forests and other areas of natural beauty.
o Neat Streets – targeted at tourists to the beach.
o In The Loop – targeted to tackling recycling on-the-go in towns and cities.
In addition to a grant of £10,000, recipients will also receive support from Hubbub in the form of project management and design time.
To maximise the campaign scale and impact, Hubbub is asking for applicants to co-invest £5,000 into a campaign, to create a project budget of £15,000.
Grants can be used to support the purchase of new bins and signage, events and the development of a campaign. Approximately 70% of the funding must be spent on purchasing or upgrading infrastructure with the rest going towards communication materials, event budgets and litter picking equipment, as well as overheads.
Projects are expected to be ready to launch within three months of receiving the grant.
The second round of the fund will open to applications in November 2024 (interested organisations can sign up to receive an email alert on the Neat Streets website), with a deadline of Wednesday 8th January 2025.
Further information, guidance and an online application form, which will become available once Round 2 of the fund opens, is available on the Neat Streets website.