About Us

The Lancashire Environmental Fund (LEF) is a partnership between SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd, Lancashire County Council, The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside and Community Futures.  

The Fund has distributed over £25m of Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) grants support to community and environmental projects which benefit the environment and people of Lancashire since its start in 1998.  The Fund is supported financially by SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd, Lancashire County Council and various third party funders.

The Landfill Communities Fund is regulated by ENTRUST.  For more information about LCF visit www.entrust.org.uk.

For other grant and funding opportunities across Lancashire please visit Lancashire County Council 4 Community

News

For Main Grants the next deadline for Round 108 submission of Expression of Interest forms is 5pm Tuesday 8th July 2025.
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If you are invited to submit a full application for Round 108 the application deadline is
​5pm Thursday 11th September 2025.

Please submit Expressions of Interest forms and Applications by email to: [email protected].