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 1 August 2025 to 31 October 2025.
Current good causes
The 3 good causes are:
Friends of Ascot Heath Primary School
The money will go towards our mission to enrich children’s education outside of government funding.
Charters Leisure Centre and Charters School
The donation will go towards a sensory garden for children to relax and enjoy outside of the classroom environment.
1st Warfield Scouting Group
The money will help to prepare young people with skills for life.
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:
- Youth Council
- Sandhurst Counselling Services
- St Paul’s Child Contact Centre
- Friends of Birch Hill
- 2nd Great Hollands Brownies
- Friends of Binfield School
- Sandhurst Health Walks
- 1st Warfield Rainbows
- The Green Champion
- 1st Owlsmoor Scout Group
- Sandy Lane School Association
- Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue
- 1st Binfield Guides
- Binfield Community Choir
- 1st Priestwood Brownies
- 2nd Bracknell Scout Group
- 1st Crown Wood Brownies
- ABC To Read
- 1st Hanworth Guides
- Friends of Ascot Heath Primary School
- 1st Binfield Air Scouts
- 2nd Bullbrook Brownies
- Stepping Stones Recovery
- Uplands Primary School
- Winkfield St Marys Church of England Primary School
- Owlsmoor Primary School
- College Town Primary School
- The Wednesday Welcome Group Sandhurst
- Jealotts Hill Community Landshare CIC
- Bracknell Smile for Sibs
- Sandhurst Day Centre
- New Scotland Hill Primary School
- Autism Berkshire
- Green and Active
- Meadow Vale Primary School PTA
- Fox Hill Primary School
- Friends of Birch Hill
- Newbold PTFA