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Third sector

Increasing sustainability and efficiency

With limited financial resources third sector organisations particularly require value for money from every penny spent. That’s why Resource Futures and the third sector are such a good fit.

At Resource Futures, we have had extensive experience over the years in providing support, advice and delivering projects for community recycling and reuse organisations wishing to market their services more widely or wishing to assess their potential capacity to grow. 

We have also developed guidance to community waste organisations in terms of how to more efficiently organise their resources and provided training to enable community outreach staff to engage with audiences through workshops and other networking activities.

We also have a number of community and third sector projects focused on reuse and carbon management.

For example - in Oxfordshire we run an on-going community focused project aimed at encouraging community-led action on carbon and sustainable waste management for Oxfordshire County Council. To find out more about this project - click here.

Nationally, we also manage Community RePaint which collects unwanted, surplus paint and re-distributes it to individuals, families and communities in need. In doing so the Community RePaint network provides social, environmental and economic benefits. To find out more about this exciting project - click here. 

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Project Synopses

Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

Resource Futures has recently helped WRAP to estimate how much household food waste has decreased nationally in recent years, with the recently published “Synthesis of Food Waste Compositional Data 2010” 

Best estimates ever of what’s in our rubbish

Defra has published a study carried out by Resource Futures which provides the best estimates to date of what’s in the ‘national rubbish bin’.

Research into reuse of household items through online portals

In 2011, Resource Futures carried out WRAP funded research into how household items are reused through online portals such as eBay, Freegle and Gumtree.  The research included a detailed survey on internet user habits regarding online exchange and sought to understand the reasons for not using such sites.  

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.