Previously the Donarbon Community Fund, then AmeyCespa Community Fund.
Landfill operators must pay a tax to the Government on every tonne of waste that is sent to landfill. The Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) allows landfill operators to ‘offset’ a percentage of the landfill tax (currently 6% of their liability) and give a proportion of it to organisations who deliver environmental objectives, instead of paying all the landfill tax to the Government.
The principle of the LCF is that it ‘offsets’ some of the negative impacts of living near a landfill site. This is done by allowing landfill operators to pay a proportion of their landfill tax liability to not-for-profit organisations that deliver benefits to the general public, biodiversity or the environment, within a 10 mile radius of a landfill site.
Donarbon Ltd originally set up the Donarbon Community Fund as its LCF. After the takeover by AmeyCespa Group, this is now the Amey Community Fund. Under the LCF regulations, the fund has to be administered by an independent organisation and AmeyCespa have commissioned the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation to manage the Fund.