| The BCCF Environmental Group was formed in 1999
to take advantage of the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme. Initially, its 'teeth
were cut' on a project looking at the viability of turning Borders wool into
insulation using Borders labour and machinery. Although the final study showed the process to be
practical, it would not have been financially successful. However, another
fourteen projects have been succesfully registered with ENTRUST and work
continues to raise funding for them. These projects are as follows:
- Wool Insulation
- Creel Path
- Duns Tennis Club
- Shredder (available for hire for shredding
hedge trimmings, branches etc.)
- Whitsome Kirk Path
- Ayton Bowling Club Path
- St Abbs Putting Green
- Waste Minimisation Fieldworker
- Gunsgreen Dovecot
- Whitsome Recreation Group
- Sustainable Gardening
- Eyemouth Golf Club
- Eyemouth Museum
- Reston Church Toilet
- Lauder Calfward Path
Other projects are awaiting approval and / or
funding.
We have been fortunate up to now because Scottish
Borders Council has granted us considerable sums from the Tax Credits accrued as
a result of their landfill operations. Unfortunately, as a consequence of
a change in the tax laws, only a third of the money previously available can now
be distributed. In addition, a major category of eligible has been
dropped. Alternative sources of funding are being sought to continue to
promote environmental work.
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