ENTRUST relocating to Leamington Spa
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
ENTRUST is relocating to new offices in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire at the end of March 2009.
ENTRUST, the regulator of the Landfill Communities Fund, has announced that it is relocating from its current offices in Sale to Leamington Spa. ENTRUST will be fully operational in its new offices by 1 April 2009.
Following a strategic review of the business, ENTRUST’s Board considers that the relocation will help to enhance the regulation of the Fund, as the move will:
• Allow ENTRUST to be more strategically located to serve the needs of its stakeholders; and
• Enhance the training facilities that ENTRUST can provide to stakeholders
Commenting upon the relocation Philip Smith, ENTRUST’s Chairman, stated: “Following the issuing of our 2008 Corporate Plan, the Board decided to review the ability of ENTRUST to serve the needs of its stakeholders from Sale. Following that review the Board concluded that stakeholders would be best served from a new office which was more centrally located in the United Kingdom.”
The cost of the move is being funded from ENTRUST’s reserves.
ENTRUST website: www.entrust.org.uk
Notes to editors:
• The new address is: ENTRUST, 60 Holly Walk, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV32 4JE. Telephone: 01926 488 300
• For further information on the LCF contact Lawrence Shirley on 0161 972 9915
Email lawrenceshirley@entrust.org.uk
• Christopher Welford, ENTRUST Chief Executive, is available for interview via prior appointment.
• ENTRUST is a not-for-profit company established in 1996 and appointed as the Regulator of the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF). Unlike other regulatory bodies, it is in the unique position that it is not a government department, or agency.
• The principle of the LCF is that it 'offsets' some of the negative impacts of living very close to a landfill site. This is done by allowing the Landfill Operators to contribute up to 6% of their landfill tax liability to not-for-profit organisations that deliver benefits to the general public or the environment. The Landfill Operator can then reclaim 90% of this contribution as a tax credit.
• ENTRUST does not distribute LCF funds itself. Environmental Bodies must apply either to Distributive Environmental Body (A list of potential funders searchable by geographical area is available on the ENTRUST website) or go direct to a Landfill Operator.
• Since its inception in 1996, the LCF has received donations in excess of £1 billion from landfill operators towards projects that benefit local communities.
• Over 2,600 Environmental Bodies are enrolled with ENTRUST.
• More than 24,000 individual projects have received LCF support.
• A searchable database of projects registered with ENTRUST is available at:
http://www.entrust.org.uk/home/facts-and-figures/project-search
• LCF money may be distributed to projects which meet certain criteria under the Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 and which are concerned certain aims, including:
• Providing Public Amenity
• Conservation of Biodiversity
• Restoration of Religious Buildings or Buildings of Architectural or Historical Interest
• Remediation of Polluted Land
• Reduction of Pollution