Community engagement

Getting the community on the side of the environment

Working directly with communities and encouraging them to promote resource efficiency - from recycling and waste minimisation to reducing water usage and cycling - is a powerful tool in creating behavioural change.

We work with groups of people who might be in a tight geographical area or they might be people that share a common interest, such as religious groups, local environmental groups, or even the local golf club. Our services are especially useful in tackling communities or areas that:

  • Have low participation in desired behaviours 
  • Use recycling and refuse collection services incorrectly 
  • Are unaware of the services on offer
  • Have an interest in pursuing an environmental initiative but need some advice and encouragement to make it happen

We are also particularly successful with activities where you want people NOT to  do something. For instance, not waste food, not buy stuff (waste minimisation), not use a garden sprinkler or not use the car.

Finding ways to engage

Our Community and Public Engagement Consultants will work closely with you to:

  • Identify issues that prevent a community from changing its behaviour
  • Identify the best community groups/leaders to engage with in order to deliver key messages within the community 
  • Harness the power of communities and community leaders to act as advocates for change 
  • Establish two-way communication between your organisation and your local community
  • Energise communities and encourage community action around issues that are important to them
  • Provide channels to achieve true community consultation and involvement

Resource Futures are pioneers in this field. Since the 1980s we have become expert in developing and elivering practical projects in local communities on a wide range of environmental topics and providing organisations with the skills to engage with their own communities.

To find out more - contact us, visit www.cagoxfordshire.co.uk to view one of our sucessful community action projects in action or read about our Sustainable Travel Initiatives Project in Brighton featured in our case studies.

Project Synopses

All change in Torbay!

Resource Futures deliver communications and community engagement activities to ensure successful service change from fortnightly co-mingled to weekly kerbside recycling

Composting in East Sussex

Householders who had never home-composted before, or those who just needed a little support, could contact the Compost Doctors over the phone, by email, at events or at talks and presentations to discuss their composting questions and issues.

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

News and Events

Community RePaint: A Helping Hand for Hearts and Minds in 2011

In 2011, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 343,957 litres of paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 217,112 litres to community groups and individuals saving 565 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of taking 192 cars off our roads - and providing 766 volunteer and training opportunities. The network now has over 65 schemes across the UK and with four new schemes about to start at the beginning of 2012.    

Resource Futures seeks new Non-Executive Chair

Following restructuring during 2011 Resource Futures is now looking to strengthen its Board with a new Non-Executive Chair.  The company is forecasting a three-fold increase in its profit from 2% in the year ended March 2010 to 6% for the year ending March 2012.  The new position will join Chief Executive Officer Jane Stephenson MBE and Operations Director Sam Reeve, bringing independent scrutiny and advice to this successful business at Board level. 

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