Grants for social enterprises to keep goods and materials in use for longer

Action Hampshire is working with TRACOuk, a Portsmouth-based furniture and equipment clearance and storage company, to help reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.  TRACOuk want to support other social enterprises and ‘profit with purpose’ companies with reusing or repurposing equipment and materials that would otherwise be disposed of.  TRACOuk have established the Sustainable Future Fund, which we at Action Hampshire are administering.

The fund is open again for applications and you can find out more about applying to the Sustainable Future Fund at this link.

What: Grants of up to £5,000

Who: Social enterprises and ‘profit with purpose’ companies in the Hampshire / West Sussex area

When: Open now for applications (with a deadline of midday on Monday 20 November)

How: Information about how to apply is on the TRACOuk website or get in touch using the contact box to the right

The Sustainable Future Fund has been set up to support the circular economy movement. Keeping goods in use for longer or ‘product life extension’ is one of 5 circular business models and is a vital element in preventing precious raw material from being needlessly extracted and plundered.

It’s a well-known fact that less energy and less carbon miles are consumed in reusing a desk as opposed to creating a new one from scratch. Forging metal, growing and chopping down trees for wood is madness when tonnes upon tonnes of quality desks are being thrown away. Making better use of unwanted desks is just one example - the Sustainable Future Fund is intended to support the development of innovative ways of keeping goods and materials in use for longer.