• Home Page
• -
• Environment
• -
• Sustainability and environmental development
• -
• Environmental challenge awards
• -
• Community environmental challenge

Access Tools

Generous cash incentives are on offer to Knowsley community groups who can come up with the best project for improving their environment.

If your group has a good idea or has already embarked on a project which is improving the quality of the environment in Knowsley to benefit the local community, then you may be eligible for an award to help fund your project.

You may have your own ideas for demonstrating your ‘green’ commitment. However, listed below are some activities the Council would like to encourage:

• Litter control projects
• Recycling Initiatives
• Neighbourhood Improvement Schemes (Litter Watch Area, Best Improved Street etc)
• Landscape projects which enhance the appearance of an area
• Waste minimisation
• Safeguarding non -renewable resources and encouraging the use of renewable resources
• Graffiti control projects
• Energy conservation measures
• Community art projects
• Nature conservation
• Climate change

Projects should:

• Demonstrate improvements in the quality of the local environment.
• Be of benefit to the local community.
• Contribute towards raising community environmental awareness.
• Be sustainable in the long and short term.
• Be realistic and achievable.
• Be cost effective.
• Demonstrate how the award will be used to develop the project.
• Be of benefit to the "global" environment.
• Be innovative.

Applications for 2008

The application form for the Community Environmental Challenge is now available to download from the attachments box below. The closing date for applications is 15 February 2008.

A copy of Adobe Acrobat reader is needed to enable access to the PDF document(s) above. If you do not already have this click to Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (Link opens in a new window) now.

To read the PDF document with a screen reader please visit Access Adobe website (Link opens in a new window), which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs.