How the good causes scheme works
Nominations are open all the time. Every 3 months all the eligible causes will be put into a draw. The 3 successful ones will be contacted and all unsuccessful nominations will be carried forward to the next draw.
The current round of donations runs from Saturday 1 November 2025 to Saturday 31 January 2026.
Current good causes
The 3 good causes are:
Assisting Berkshire Children Read
The donation will help children in Berkshire become confident readers, recruiting volunteers and providing engaging resources.
Thames Hospice
The donation will help to fund end of care treatment for patients.
Tuesday Stroke Club
The donation will help us provide outings and cover the transport costs of getting our wheelchair members to meetings.
How to donate your points
To donate your recycling reward points to any of these causes, log in to your account.
A point counts as a vote, rather than a monetary value. The scheme is sponsored and currently £1,000 is available to be split between the good causes every 3 months. When the donation period ends, the points total is recorded and £1,000 is split between the 3 causes. The funds are split in proportion to the points donated to each cause.
The good causes scheme is currently being sponsored by our waste collection contractor SUEZ.
If you are interested in sponsoring the scheme fill in the incentive scheme enquiry form.
Nominating a good cause
To nominate a group or cause to be a good cause in the next round, fill in the incentive scheme enquiry form.
All good causes must:
- be independent local organisations operating in Bracknell Forest with no direct fiscal links to a national body seeking to do something to the benefit of the local community or the environment (either in whole or in part)
- not be individuals, or financially supported political or religious purposes
- be not for profit
- not currently grant or otherwise funded by Bracknell Forest Council
- not have benefited from the recycling incentive scheme good cause fund in the last 3 years
Good causes chosen in the last 3 years
The groups listed below have all benefited from the recycling incentive scheme in the last 3 years.
Check this list before nominating a good cause, as a group can only be chosen once every 3 years:
- 1st Hanworth Guides
- 1st Binfield Air Scouts
- 2nd Bullbrook Brownies
- Stepping Stones Recovery
- 1st Hanworth Brownies
- Ranelagh School PTA
- Winkfield St Marys Church of England Primary School
- Uplands Primary School
- Owlsmoor Primary School
- St Michaels CE Primary School Sandhurst
- Stepping Stones DS
- Age Concern Bracknell Forest
- Harmans Water School Association
- Great Hollands Primary School
- Wooden Hill Primary School
- Newbold Toddlers
- Crowthorne Musical Players
- Tuesday Club - for over 60s
- Garth Hill College PTFA
- College Town Primary School
- Wednesday Welcome Group Sandhurst
- Jealotts Hill Community Landshare CIC
- New Scotland Hill Primary School PTA
- Promise Inclusion Bracknell Sibs Group
- Sandhurst Day Centre
- Meadow Vale Primary School PTA
- Green and Active
- Autism Berkshire
- Fox Hill Primary School
- Friends of Birch Hill
- Newbold PTFA
- Friends of Ascot Heath Primary School
- Charters Leisure Centre and Charters School
- 1st Warfield Scouting Group