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Grant funding opportunities in 2024 for local communities

Find out what funding is available for projects that reduce carbon emissions and benefit the natural environment.

Think before You buy - Xmas 23

Top tips for an environmentally friendly festive season

Ideas to help us to reduce waste and energy, and recycle more during the festive period.

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Share your thoughts in an Active Travel Survey

Have your say on the future of walking, wheeling and cycling in West Sussex.

SWT and volunteers rewild woodland North of Horsham

Public talk: Nature Recovery at a Time of Crisis

This talk will share inspiring stories on how we can all contribute to nature recovery.

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Wilder Horsham District celebrates three years of boosting biodiversity

Delivered by a unique partnership project between Horsham District Council and the Sussex Wildlife Trust.

Let's celebrate Recycling Week 2023

16 - 22 October. This year’s Recycle Week theme - The Big Recycling Hunt - focuses on items that can be recycled but are commonly missed in the home.

Funding opens for climate action and nature recovery projects

Applications are once again invited for community project funding to help tackle climate change and/or biodiversity loss.

Looking to become a carbon friendly business?

Please complete a short online survey to help us to help you to become a more climate friendly business. The survey closes Friday 13 October.

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Life on the Verge - Greening Steyning's new biodiversity project

Steyning's new Life on the Verge project hopes to inspire other communities to increase the diversity of plants and wildflowers in their own neighbourhoods.

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New animation series encourages us all to ‘Think Before You Throw’

Thank you! Last year you helped the County to reuse or recycle over 200,000 tonnes of waste!

Coffee Pods

Over half a million coffee pods collected by our new kerbside service!

Coffee lovers in Horsham District reach recycling milestone!

Horsham District Council Cabinet Member Cllr Jay Mercer with some of the Recycling , Waste  and Street Cleansing crew

We're reducing our carbon emissions in Horsham town centre

This is another key step for us in achieving our vision for a greener, cleaner environment for the District.