Circular Economy Grant 2025
Waterford City and County Council invites submissions from community groups, youth groups, schools or other community development organisations, based in County Waterford, who are interested in receiving funding for local circular economy initiatives.
Conditions and criteria used in selecting initiatives:
1. All projects should seek to encourage waste prevention and promote the circular economy
2. Applications will only be accepted through the online application form and all correspondence will be by email using the email address submitted on the application form.
3. Expenditure under this grant must be directly and fully related to waste prevention activities and cannot be used for refreshments, prizes, entertainment, or other unrelated expenditure. Please give a complete list of expenditure with your application; any expenditure not specifically funded under this grant cannot be compensated for in grant monies. Grants should be used, where possible, to leverage local business co-funding of waste prevention measures.
4. If successful a payment of 50% of the approved grant shall be paid to the name of the Organisation specified on the Grant Application form. Please ensure that this name is the same as the name on the Organisation’s bank account. The balance grant of the remaining 50% will be paid following the satisfactory completion of the agreed project, receipt of a completion grant form and evidence of monies spent. Projects that receive funding will be obliged to submit a completion report on their project detailing expenditure. Non-payment of the second 50% of the grant is at the discretion of Waterford City & County Council if your completion report is unsatisfactory or does not correspond with the project/expenditure agreed on initially.
5. Projects should be to a high standard and should aim at establishing or replicating best practice in relation to waste prevention.
6. Any online/virtual events should be recorded or streamed live to allow as many people to attend/share the information as possible.
7. All publications, print material or virtual events must reference funding through this grant if successful in obtaining funding.
