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1. Brighton Community Compost Centre

Main Contact: John Walker
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Website: www.brighton-compost.coop
Telephone: 0044 (0)1273 620489
Address: Stanmer Park Offices
Stanmer Park
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9SE
Region: SE England

Description:

The BCCC launched in Feb 2006. It is a social enterprise co-operative – all employees earning the same hourly wage. It operates a dedicated garden collection scheme for households, alongside a green-waste dropping point for smaller waste producers such as gardeners and tree surgeons. BCCC products: composts, mulches, garden woodchips and firewood are sold at a reduced rate to other community organisations and educational groups. BCCC also operates as a social resource for environmental education and work training. From it’s unique ‘earthship’ community building it runs training days ad school visits showcasing aspects of recycling and wider environmental issues.

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2. Centre for Alternative Technology

Main Contact: Marcus Zipperlen
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Website: www.cat.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1654 705970
Address: The Biology Department
The Centre for Alternative Technology
Machynlleth
Powys
SY20 9AZ
Region: Mid Wales

Description:

CAT is Europe’s leading Eco-Centre. From a 30 acre site in West Wales we seek to inspire, inform and enable people to live environmentally sustainable lives, showing practical solutions to environmental problems to carry us into the 21st Century. We receive over 60,000 visitors per year and a further 5000 students participating in our public courses.

We demonstrate organic gardening and composting both for horticulture and waste management. We have working examples of how to compost at home as well as an in-vessel composter suitable for institutional and catering waste. We also demonstrate renewable energy technologies, environmental building and green sanitation.

CAT is built on an old slate quarry with very little natural soil so all our fertility has been built over 30 years through compost made from our own food, garden and even sewage wastes.

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3. Coach House Trust

Main Contact: Antony Nichol
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Website: www.thecht.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1413 346888
Address: 84 Belmont Lane
Kelvin Bridge
Glasgow
G12 8EN
Region: Glasgow and Clyde Valley

The Coach House Trust seeks to challenge the economic and social exclusion of adults who are recovering from problems associated with mental health, addiction, and learning difficulties.

We provide personal, social, and vocational development opportunities to our clients in settings which re-integrate them to the mainstream community. We provide indoor and outdoor workshops in horticulture, compost/ recycling, renewable energy, computing, woodwork, fabrics, ceramics and landscaping. Our people work in and with the local community so that mutual trust and respect is built and integration achieved.

As work is often the key to inclusion in our society, we organise supported work placements for our people as a bridge to full employment.

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4. Colinton Community Composting

Contact Name: Liesel Metz
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Website: www.tiphereth.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)131 4413479
Address: 53 Torphin Road
Colinton
Edinburgh
EH13 OPQ
Region: Lothian & Borders (Scotland)

Description:

Colinton Community Composting is a project at Tiphereth, a Camphill Community. The Camphill Movement works to create communities in which vulnerable children and adults with learning difficulties, can live, learn and work with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect.

Our composting site is right next to Torphin in a disused quarry and an ex landfill site. We offer our service of uplifting garden waste to over 600 households in Colinton. We do this in a co-ordination with the City of Edinburgh Council. We produce different grades of compost, leafmould and wormcast. We even sell composting worms. We also saw and split lots of logs supplying many people with fire wood. Through our composting we have made many friends and discovered an endless source of interest and satisfying work.

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5. Community Composting in Burnley (Offshoots Permaculture Project)

Main Contact: Phil Dewhurst / Lisa Yates
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Website: www.offshoots.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1282 430433
Address: Groundwork East Lancashire
62-64 Yorkshire Street
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 3BT
Region: North West England

Description:

Offshoots has been constantly evolving since 1997. It has been principally guided by the voluntary management committee, the needs of the local community, our many volunteers and user groups. It has moved from a state of complete dereliction to being a high quality, safe and stimulating environment open to the public 21 days a month.

Since taking over the lease in 1997 the group has, amongst many other achievements, designed, built and installed an ABPR compliant community composting system servicing 400 households; self-built 4 eco-buildings; built and brought into production over an acre of organic fruit and vegetable gardens. Offshoots run accredited courses in horticulture, conservation, permaculture and charcoal making.

6. COMPO

Main Contact: Tim Cara
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Telephone: 0044 (0)1553 770570
Address: Forward+Futures
c/o Kettlewell House
Austin Fields Industrial Estate
Kings Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 1PW
Region: Eastern England

Description:

Compo run two community composting sites, one rural village, the other, town inner suburb, which offer training and work experience, project for adults with learning disabilities. This involves kerbside collection of green garden waste and glass bottles, manual filling, emptying and mixing of composting materials at bins, mechanised shredding and sifting. Training is provided to nationally accredited vocational standards as the first steps to employability.

The emphasis is on high standards of presentation, cleanliness and tidiness at the site and on achieving independence by learning and following working disciplines and safe practices. The project has partnership links with other service providers, local authorities and commercial operators and aims for successful inclusion in the host communities.

Double regional/National waste management awards winners 2005/6.

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7. Compost Works

Main Contact: Hugh Baker
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Website: www.compostworks.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1372 376642
Address: 8 The Drive
Fetcham
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 9EN
Region: South East England

Description:

Compost Works is a community group promoting home composting in Surrey, mainly in the Mole Valley District. We attend around 20-30 events a year, with our mobile display comprising a fully functioning compost heap, mounted on a car trailer. On arrival at an event, the compost container is lifted off to reveal the cross-section of a compost heap varying from fresh material at the top to compost at the bottom. Also displayed are samples of materials that can be composted, finished (unsieved) compost and examples of home-made compost bins. We demonstrate a mower for ‘shredding’ hedge trimmings etc and an electric shredder for branches.

We offer small electric shredders for hire and encourage the formation of shredder clubs. We have a telephone helpline and a website and supply free a comprehensive compost booklet and order forms for Local Authority compost bins.

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8. Cwm Harry Land Trust

Main Contact: Richard Northridge
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Website: www.cwmharrylandtrust.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1686 626234
Address: Turners Lane,
Broad Street,
Newtown,
Powys
SY16 2AU
Region: Mid Wales

Description:

Recycling kerbside collected food waste from 5300 households into a valuable product which has added value to it and where the resultant wealth is retained for community benefit. This is currently a participatory action research project which is finding it’s way towards long term economic and social viability. It is, therefore, at the moment a work in progress. But there is enough already in place to demonstrate closed, local loops linking the biodegradable material with its processing into a valuable set of products, using some of the of those products to power the growing of local food, thereby creating wealth. How that wealth is retained & kept local is in the legal and economic structures which we plan to set up so as to reflect as well as realise the above aspirations.

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9. Debdale Eco Centre

Main Contact: Valerie Rawlinson
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Website: www.debdale-eco-centre.com
Telephone: 0044 (0)161 2209199
Address: Waterside Gardens
1075 Hyde Road
Debdale Park
Gorton
Manchester
M18 7LJ
Region: North West England

Description:

Debdale Eco Centre promotes home composting, and the use of compost to increase soil fertility and the organic production of fruit and vegetables. We work with local residents and primary schools in the Gorton Area. We are currently delivering the GLOSS (Gorton Leads on Sustainability Strategy) home composting project in Gorton funded with £69,999 from CRED and working in partnership with WRAP.

We have canvassed the whole of Gorton and to date we have recruited 1200 composters. Our follow up calls have revealed that the majority of residents are still composting. We work with WRAP by purchasing an amount of bins from them and selling them (for the same price) to residents along with our own composting booklet. WRAP is comparing our area with a control area to see how effective our methods are.

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10. East London Community Recycling Partnership (ELCRP)

Main Contact: Jane Wilde
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Website: www.elcrp-recycling.com
Telephone: 0044 (0)20 89865608
Address: The Recycling Centre
6 Muir Road
Nightingale Estate
London
E5 8PG
Region: London

Description:

East London Community Recycling Partnership was founded in 2001 as a not-for-profit community organisation. Our aim: to offer a recycling service to residents living on inner city estates. Based in Hackney, London, we have grown from 4 employees to 35.

We now have a number of composting sites situated throughout the LB of Hackney as well as a site in Barking & Dagenham. We are fully ABPR compliant and were the first in the UK to be approved by the Environment Agency & by DEFRA (SVS) within the terms of the ABPR for our Bokashi / Rocket System.

ELCRP have won 2 National awards for our Food Waste Recycling Project
We have a large scale green waste composting site on the Hackney Marshes dealing with 100’s of tonnes of park waste p/a.

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11. Fairfield Materials Management

Main Contact: Helen Middleton
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Website: www.fairfieldcompost.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)161 2312139
Address: The Cabin
Adj 22
New Smithfield Market
Whitworth Street East
Manchester
M11 2WJ
Region: North West England

Description:

Fairfield developed and still operates a facility which maximises the potential of the waste generated on the market. The main social benefits of this scheme are those relating to the avoidance of transporting and landfilling biodegradable waste, the creation of local employment and training opportunities, the provision of student project areas for local Universities and the recent provision of a volunteer placement for Mencap.

Fruit and Vegetable waste is delivered to the market by the individual traders on a daily basis, this material is stripped of any un-biodegradable packaging before being processed through the in-vessel composting system.

Green Waste is delivered from local landscapers and also from skip hire companies in Manchester. Fairfield has worked closely with these groups to introduce methods for bulking green waste on their existing sites and delivering this material to the Fairfield site.

The compost is produced to the national BSI PAS 100 standard and is marketed to local landscapers.

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12. Falmouth Green Centre

Main Contact: Guy Doncaster
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Website: www.falmouthgreencentre.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1326 377173
Address: Union Road
Falmouth
Cornwall
UK TR11 4JW
Region: South West England

Description:

Falmouth Green Centre is a community enterprise working in partnership with practical conservation charity BTCV promoting sustainability.

Projects at Falmouth Green Centre raise environmental awareness and encourage community participation. They include the waste wood project which re-uses timber to manufacture wildlife habitat boxes and garden furniture, and a nursery project growing and selling organically grown herbs, wildflowers and native trees.

The grounds of the Falmouth Green centre are a a community garden which features a compost demonstration site, an outside classroom, a wildlife & woodland area, organic vegetable growing plots and an orchard.

Regular practical volunteering activities take place throughout the week. The work of the centre supports social inclusion, providing volunteer opportunities and training for local people including the long-term unemployed, mental health users and people with special needs.

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13. Fishguard Community Composting

Main Contact: Alan Evans
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Website: www.fishguardrotters.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1348 871880
Address: Wentworth House
The Parrog
Goodwick
Pembrokeshire
SA64 0DE
Region: South Wales

Description:

Fishguard Composting and Recycling group aim to make the Fishguard and Goodwick area an example of best practice in Pembrokeshire through recycling and composting. The composting demonstration site is aimed at home/school composting and so our facilities are tailored to suit this market.

As well as having and extensive range of home composting bins and innovative use of recycling we also demonstrate what can be achieved with the finished compost. Schools can see the process from start to finish and get their hands dirty looking for worms. We have: Compost machines, Compost tumbler, a wormery, a pallet bin, a New Zealand type bin, a compost toilet, a polytunnel, raised beds and an outdoor classroom.

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14. Free Dirt

Main Contact: Anna Kefala
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Website: www.freightlinersfarm.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)20 7609 0467
Address: Sheringham Road
Islington
London
N7 8PF
Region: London

Description:

A pilot version of ‘Free Dirt’ Community Composting Scheme was set up to assess the management of green waste disposal in the London Borough of Islington. “Free Dirt” operates from Freightliners City Farm. It is a membership scheme that offers a collection service for green waste from local gardens. The scheme aims to educate the local community about waste management issues and sustainable urban living and to reintroduce fertile compost back into the local ecosystem. The primary aim of the project is to decrease disposal and increase the productivity of green waste arising in Islington through the use of environmentally, socially and financially sustainable practices.

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15. Fork to Fork

Main Contact: Teresa Latta
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Telephone: 0044 (0)151 4481532
Address: Evans Road
Unit House
Office 33
Liverpool
L24 9HZ
Region: North West England

Description:

Rotters main activities are: organic kerbside collection of garden and kitchen waste from households; recycling and composting; promote volunteer activities to empower the concept of life cycle of growing-health eating-recycling/composting; work with local schools to raise awareness of and involvement in waste and recycling issues.

Fork to Fork aims to create an active community campaign to promote the positive impact that composting can have on diverting waste from going to landfill and, in particular, showing how the recycling of kitchen waste plays an important part in this process. This will be achieved through expanding existing kerbside collections of kitchen waste, which will be processed onsite using approved in-vessel composting machines. The compost produced will be then used in projects helping the local community to grow vegetables, fruits and plants.

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16. Golspie GREAN Community Garden

Main Contact: Pete Higgins
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Website: www.spanglefish.com/GREAN/
Telephone: 0044 (0)1408 634253
Address: Unit 2
Golspie Industrial Estate,
Main Street
Golspie
KW10 6RN
Region: Highlands, Scotland

Description:

The Community Composting centre operates as a bring site, taking about 35 tonnes a year of garden waste from local residents. The Community Garden and the compost sites are run as one operation by the Garden Development Officer and are frequently used as educational resources by local schools. Both are part of Golspie Recycling and Environmental Action Network (GREAN), which also runs a bicycle recycling project, a kerbside collection for East and Central Sutherland, and paper shredding service. We also provide bins for home composting.

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17. Green Estates

Main Contact: Dan Cornwell
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Website: www.greenestates.org
Telephone: 0044 (0)114 2762828
Address: 115 Manor Lane
Sheffield
S2 1UH
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside, England

Description:

Through the innovative Dispersed Compost Network six medium sized composting sites are operated across Sheffield, processing green waste from parks, gardens, open spaces, street trees, civic amenity sites, and the council’s green bags scheme into a soil improver. The idea of the DCN model is to reduce the amount of travel our customers have to make in order to drop off their green waste. As part of a community-composting scheme we aim to serve a wide range of customers from small landscape businesses through to large city wide waste collection organizations.

At present we produce high quality compost that is used as a soil improver to some of our own sites. This year we aim to go one step further and achieve the BSI PAS 100 certification which means that contractors and gardeners will be able to purchase with confidence locally produced good-quality peat-free compost.

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18. Growing with Grace

Main Contact: Neil Marshall
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Website: www.growingwithgrace.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1524 251723
Address: Clapham Nursery
Clapham
Lancaster
LA2 8ER
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside, England

Description:

Growing with Grace is a Soil Association registered business growing a wide range of organic vegetables, herbs and salads in 2.5 acres of glass houses. Produce is sold through an on-site shop, a regular market stall, local farmers’ markets and a bag delivery scheme. Approx. 600 tonnes of green waste from the local community is composted on site annually by the aerobic windrow method.

Also on site is a bio-diesel plant operated by the Clapham Community Co-op (Bio-diesel project) of which Growing With Grace is a member. This plant produces approx. 600 litres of bio-diesel per week, which fuels community hire cars, Growing With Grace’s van and individual co-operative member’s vehicles.

Growing With Grace is a Quaker business run on ethical principles.

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19. Garden Organic (HDRA)

Main Contact: Jamie Blanchfield
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Website: www.gardenorganic.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)2476 308202
Address: Sustainable Waste Management Team
Garden Organic
Ryton Organic Gardens
Coventry
CV8 3LG
Region: West Midlands, England

Description:

Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA). We are a registered charity, and Europe's largest organic membership organization. We are dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

Our Research and Development Section is working to improve commercial organic growing in Britain.

Our Sustainable Waste Management team promote home composting through Master Composter schemes and research related to home composting. Our three organic display gardens at Ryton near Coventry, Yalding near Maidstone, and Audley End near Saffron Walden, are open to the public and attract thousands of visitors each year. They contain active and demonstration composting areas. Our Heritage Seed Library saves hundreds of old and unusual vegetable varieties for posterity.

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20. Heeley City Farm

Main Contact: David Gray
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Website: www.heeleycityfarm.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)114 2580482
Address: Richards Road
Heeley
Sheffield
S2 3DT
Region: Yorkshire & Humber, England

Description:

Environment in action for all the family! Wind and sun powered City Farm with friendly farm animals, relaxing gardens and organic demonstrations covering over four acres close to the centre of Sheffield. The site has a healthy café, children’s playground, garden centre, shop and excellent recycling facilities. The adjoining community park has the city’s largest climbing boulder and a playground. Heeley City Farm is a registered charity and the whole site is a community-run enterprise.

Important areas of work include horticultural training, energy efficiency and renewable energy, green building technology, recycling and composting, food production, health and well-being. Heeley City Farm works in South Sheffield, across the city of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire and beyond.

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21. Lochaber Community Composting Network

Main Contact: Alison Munro
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Website: www.l-e-g.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1397 700090
Address: An Drochaid
Claggan Road
Claggan
Fort William
Inverness-shire
PH33 6PH
Region: Highland, Scotland

Description:

Lochaber Environmental Group is a local charity, which was set up in 1999 to take action on waste in this area of the West Highlands. So far we have set up a network of three rural Community Composting sites in the villages of Kinlochleven, Glencoe and Strontian. Last year these three sites successfully managed to divert 42 tonnes of green waste from landfill sites. We are committed to increasing the tonnage from each site and to developing additional sites in the Lochaber area.

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22. Lower Slaughter Community Composting

Main Contact: Tom Constant
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Telephone: 0044 (0)1451 820916
Address: 19 Mill Lane
Lower Slaughter
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL54 2HX
Region: South West England

Description:

In this village of 200 people, the project was developed to recycle green waste which is in excess to home compost needs thereby protecting the environment, supporting local horticulture and developing a community activity.

The success to date has corrected previous miss-conceptions and increased the level of interest in recycling within this small picturesque village.

The product range has grown with the development of the site and has provided coarse compost, fine compost (after sieving), mulch, shredded material, leaf mould and moss for hanging baskets.

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23. Otter Rotters

Main Contact: Phil Foggitt
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Website: www.otterrotters.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1404 851048
Address: 2 Bridge Cottages
Feniton
Honiton
Exeter
EX14 3BR
Region: South West England

Description:

Otter Rotters was established in 2000 to provide a community composting facility for residents of the Otter Valley in East Devon. Now it provides a fortnightly kerbside collection service for green waste to 15,000 households, with material composted on its 2 acre site near Honiton. The service is promoted on behalf of Otter Rotters, through 15 retail outlets who sell collection tags and OR garden bags. It has now also diversified to include the re-use and recycling of timber collected from businesses.

In addition the project has now launched, a collection of kitchen waste for 500 households. This is the first community-scale anaerobic digestion process for catering waste, in the UK. Otter Rotters is also one of 8 projects in the UK providing technical and hands-on consultancy advice to a local businesses; this involves the on-site, in-vessel composting of catering waste.

The organisation has 5 Directors and currently employs 9 people.

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24. Pepys Community Recycling

Main Contact: Nico Quiquerel
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Telephone: 0044 (0)208 694 3503
Address: Unit 2
Victoria Wharf
Deptford
London
SE8 3QQ
Region: London

Description:

We are a door-to-door food waste and dry recyclables collection social enterprise. Food waste is processed by 2 accelerated composters and enriched with green waste. Based on the Pepys Estate in South-East London, we encourage greater recycling participation in a hard to reach community, tackle endemic pest problems, create local employment and help build social cohesion during a period of gentrification. The product is used in the community allotment and local households.

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25. Proper Job

Main Contact: Nicky Scott
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Website: www.proper-job.org
Telephone: 0044 (0)1647 432985
Address: Proper Job Resource Centre
Crannafords Industrial Park
Chagford
Devon
TQ13 8DJ
Region: South West England

Description:

Proper Job (a limited company since 1995) operates out of Chagford in Devon, a rural town within the Dartmoor National Park. Developing out of a community composting project, Proper Job now also grows and sells local produce and runs a popular whole food café and purchasing co-operative in the town. Proper Job has additionally extended its community recycling operations to offer a comprehensive recycling service to over 1500 households. The project also provides advice and information, delivers training, demonstration and consultancy and works strategically to influence local and regional sustainability agendas.

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26. Scottish Composting Centre

Main Contact: Ron Gilchrist
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Website: www.tecorr.com
Telephone: 0044 (0)1475 568 645
Address: Glenside
Dalry Moor Road
Fairlie
KA29 0EQ
Region: South West Scotland

Description:

The SCC has 15 years' successful experience in the use of low tech thermophilic composting and in vermiculture to compost organic waste and over 6 years' experience in investigating the in-vessel method of composting organic waste. We use a variety of tools (composting bays / boxes / bins / tumblers and in-vessel systems – see SCC pictures in the gallery on www.growbest.co.uk ) and now demonstrate best practice to enable clients to use their equipment to their optimal capacity. The complementary technology of vermiculture is the best option for many households, especially in winter. At SCC we use simple wormbox technology to produce wormcast to enrich our compost blends.

The Centre attracts individual householders, gardening groups, community groups, schools, colleges, small businesses, councils and waste management companies seeking to find out more about the most up-to-date technologies and practices for processing their organic wastes.

27. Sunnyside Community Garden

Main Contact: Sarah Massey
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Website: www.sunnysidegarden.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)20 7272 3522
Address: Hazelville Road
London
N19 3LX
Region: London

Description:

Sunnyside Community Garden aims to promote the importance of the natural environment and sustainability within the local community. As part of this remit, Sunnyside runs a small community composting facility and encourages volunteers to help with its upkeep and running. Most of the material composted comes from Sunnyside Garden itself but green waste from the weekly organic market and from the local park is also composted.

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28. Swansea Community Farm

Main Contact: Neil Matthews
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Website: www.swanseacommunityfarm.org.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1792 578384
Address: 2 Pontarddulais Road
Fforestfach
Swansea
SA5 4BA
Region: South Wales

Description:

Swansea Community Farm has secured a grant of £181,000 over 3 years through the Strategic Recycling Scheme (SRS), the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Regional Development Fund for a new Home and Community Composting project. This is part of a Swansea Community Recycling Alliance and Partnership (SCRAP) initiative which aims to make a significant and long-lasting contribution to waste minimisation in Swansea.

The initiative involves a) developing a compost demonstration area with interpretation features and materials to promote home composting, b) employing education and training development officers to develop and pilot a schools education programme and an adult training programme, and c) piloting a community composting scheme.

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29. Teesdale Rotters

Main Contact: Martin Bacon
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Telephone: 0044 (0)1833 690022
Address: Conservation Centre
Deepdale Woods
Startforth
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 9TB
Region: North East England

Description:

Teesdale Conservation Volunteers organise a Community Composting Scheme called Rotters. They have over 1,200 members in Barnard Castle (a historic market town) and Teesdale who are all happy to pay a yearly subscription to be Rotters members. The site they use was once a sewage treatment works, but after nine years of hard work and dedication it has been transformed into a pleasant haven on the edge of Deepdale Woods.

For the future, they are planning to build an eco-centre on the site using sustainable local materials. It will be used as a teaching and volunteer facility. At present work is going on to extend our vegetable gardens and polytunnels to provide an organic vegetable and fruit delivery scheme.

TCV rely on five paid staff, volunteers, unemployed, school teachers and children, a work party from the nearby Young Offenders Institute and a group of eco-friendly Trustees to inspire, labour and develop the initiative for the good of the community.

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30. WISH

Main Contact: David Spencer
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Website: www.wish-charity.co.uk
Telephone: 0044 (0)1258 863 823
Address: Fiveways Therapeutic Centre
7 Butts Pond Industrial Estate
Sturminster Newton
Dorset
DT10 1AZ
Region: South West England

Description:

WISH Charity provides a household green/wood waste collection facility in North Dorset. Operating five days each week, the main town Sturminster Newton and several villages are serviced by a fleet of 4 x 4’s and trailers. The scheme is used currently by some 1,127 homes. The main aim of the project is to allow individuals with a variation of disabilities, and the disadvantaged to all work together, in the community, creating their own social enterprise.

In addition to the green waste collection facility, WISH produce fine wooden buildings, wheelchair accessible picnic benches, and special orders by request including school play equipment/play houses. Diversity is the key to the WISH success story. Individuals involve themselves in the production, bagging of our popular mulch, along with kindling and logs over the whole year. WISH also work in partnership with a number of committed charities, companies and local business, all who have the same aims and ambitions regarding recycling, using less energy, to reprocessing, from an International company “ E On” to “Dorset Primary Care Trust”

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