UK • environment
- Sector: environment
- Headquarters Country: UK
- Founding Year: 2003
- Operating Regions: UK
- Founders: Brighton people
- Problem Identified: A large number of timber was thrown away./A large rate of unemployment.
- Solution Offered: Save resources by rescuing and re-using waste timber that would otherwise be landfilled (or at very best downcycled into woodchip). Create sustainable jobs, as well as training and volunteering opportunities, for local people – especially those who might find it difficult to get into or back to employment.
- Social Impact: With so much perfectly good timber ending up in landfill and so many enthusiastic people available (and keen to work for such a worthwhile cause) we believe that the UK could support around 40 to 50 such enterprises.
- Funding: The NCWRP was set up by a mixture of grants and earned income, but from 2011 we haven’t received any grant funding for our core work. We’ve been completely financially self-supporting; generating all the income needed to meet our overheads through the modest fees we charge to support new members and to market our members’ collection service.
- Awards: Winner of 'Environmental Social Enterprise' Award Highly Commended 2017
- Website: https://www.communitywoodrecycling.org.uk/about-us/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-community-wood-recycling-project/about/
