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<p>The following table sets out the grant funding allocated to Keep Britain Tidy from
2010 to 2015:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grant
</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£4.75 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£4
million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£3.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£2.25
million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£0.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>After 2015, no funding was specifically allocated to Keep Britain Tidy, but
it has successfully bid for a number of litter-related contracts:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Project</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract
value </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>Analysis of Local Environment
Quality Survey for England data 2014-15</p></td><td><p>£29,986</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>Survey
of roadside litter on trunk roads other than motorways</p></td><td><p>£79,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>Economic
valuation of the non-market benefits of dealing with specific types of litter that
a Deposit Return Scheme in England would help to overcome</p></td><td><p>£41,525</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Keep Britain Tidy was also awarded the following grant funding towards the
delivery of national clear-up days in 2015-18:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grant
</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 (Community Clear-Up Day)</p></td><td><p>£9,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016
(Clean for the Queen)</p></td><td><p>£9,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (Great British
Spring Clean)</p></td><td><p>£10,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In 2017,
we also launched the £450,000 Litter Innovation Fund (jointly funded by Defra and
the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government), to pilot, implement and
evaluate small scale local research projects that could be replicated more widely.
The Fund was open to applications from councils, community groups, campaign groups
and small/medium-sized enterprises. A total of £122,449 was awarded to 13 projects
in the first round, including 4 awards to Keep Britain Tidy, totaling £39,717. Full
details of all the first-round awards are available online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/litter-innovation-fund"
target="_blank">http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/litter-innovation-fund</a></p><p>Defra
has spent the following amounts on the development of the national anti-littering
campaign (none of this funding was paid to Keep Britain Tidy).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>Initial
scoping and research</p></td><td><p>£15,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>Development
of campaign and partnership strategy and stakeholder research, as well as testing
and development of a campaign identify</p></td><td><p>£124,412</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>Campaign
branding, creative assets and launch.</p></td><td><p>£50,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Since 2015, Defra has also provided £5,000 per year to the Marine Conservation
Society to carry out beach cleaning at priority beaches.</p><p>No funding has been
allocated to other anti-litter initiatives.</p>
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