With news on: Local projects benefit from Beddington Community Fund; South Hams consults on comms; FCC relaunches reuse shop; and, J&B career planning.
Projects benefit from Beddington Community Fund
Community projects local to Viridor’s energy recovery facility in South London have received around £65,000 through the Beddington Community Fund.
Successful projects have ranged from the improvement of sports facilities to new pathways at a Sutton nature reserve – Wilderness Island.
Wilderness Island Nature Reserve in Sutton received funding to upgrade its pathways and broadwalks
The fund was launched in late 2016, to help support local community projects within the London boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Croydon and Sutton.
Community projects within a 2km radius of the Beddington ERF can apply for up to £30,000 and projects within the four boroughs are eligible for up to £5,000. In total, the fund will see around £1 million being made available to local community groups over the next 25 years, Viridor says.
All applications are reviewed on a quarterly basis by a funding panel of representatives from the local community, London borough of Sutton and Viridor.
South Hams consults on recycling comms
South Hams district council is consulting with residents to find out how they want to hear about upcoming improvements to the borough’s recycling service once a new collections contract begins.
The council last month, along with West Devon borough council, awarded an initial eight year collections contract to FCC Environment with an option for a further two year extension (see letsrecycle.com story).
As part of the new service, some changes to collections will be rolled out over the next two years, with a focus on glass and mixed plastic. And, the council is asking residents to provide views on how the potential changes should be communicated.
Cllr Rufus Gilbert, South Hams executive member for commercial services, said: “As a council we need to make sure residents receive clear information about our services.
“Before we launch into the new recycling service, we would like our residents to tell us how they want to hear the news. We know lots of our residents now use social media and technology to find out their news. But would they still like a printed service guide? Do they use the website? What can we do to make our messages as clear as possible and to reach as many people as possible?”
The survey will close on 11 February 2019.
FCC relaunches reuse shop
England and Hull FC Rugby League star Scott Taylor joined local dignitaries on 10 January to help Dove House Hospice, in partnership with FCC Environment, relaunch a retail outlet at Hessle’s Humberfield household waste recycling site.
The reopening of the re-use store in Hessle near Hull, East Yorks, where discarded goods are cleaned up and resold for charity
The Reuse Shop was opened on the site in 2015, selling unwanted items residents donated at their local recycling site – with FCC Environment operating the facility on behalf of East Riding of Yorkshire council and Hull city council.
Now the shop will become a Dove House charity shop, with those unwanted items donated by the public going on sale to raise funds for the hospice.
Marisa Haines, retail division manager at Dove House, looks forward to seeing the new project in action: “Our retail outlets play a huge role in raising the funds needed to continue providing the exceptional care and support the hospice offers to patients and families across the region, so the chance to open a new shop is always exciting.”
Dove House Hospice is a local charity which provides specialist palliative care for adults in Hull and East Yorkshire with life-limiting illnesses, as well as supporting their families throughout their care, and after bereavement.
J&B seeks to inspire waste experts of the future
Students in the Tees Valley have been encouraged to consider a career in the waste sector, by waste and recycling business J&B Recycling.
According to J&B, recruiting skilled workers for the waste and recycling sector can be challenging due to skills shortages.
J&B Recycling HR manager Anne White at a recent BITC event
To help address this, the company’s managing director Vikki Jackson-Smith and HR manager Anne White, have engaged with local Year 10 and 11 schoolchildren to spark interest in working in the sector at an event organised by the Prince of Wales’ charity Business In The Community (BITC).
Taking part in the careers event at Dyke House Sports and Technology College in Hartlepool pupils were given the opportunity to speak with professionals on each stall gaining an insight into potential career routes in their respective industries.
Representing waste and recycling sectors, J&B sought to highlight the need for skilled workers in the waste sector, to cope with advances in technology in recycling.
Ms Jackson-Smith said: “Thinking about careers early on is so important – not every student has the support outside of school to guide them into potential career paths and understand the importance of relevant qualifications and the best approach to follow for their desired career route.”
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