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Working with the Community Sector Training Course

In 2006, Resource Futures were commissioned to produce a Training Module for inclusion in WRAP’s Advanced Recycling Manager’s Training Course on how to work with the community sector.

In 2006, Resource Futures were commissioned to produce a Training Module for inclusion in WRAP’s Advanced Recycling Manager’s Training Course on how to work with the community sector.

This project involved production of the training manual and development of 13 case studies to accompany the course. The case studies were produced by liaising with a range of different local authorities working with community sector organisations to deliver waste and recycling services.
 

Resource Futures now delivers the training days for this module, which includes not only updating the case studies every year with new/useful information but also sourcing ‘live case studies’ – speakers from Local Authority and Community Sector partnerships, projects or initiatives who give a presentation to the delegates during the training days. These have been an extremely popular and useful way for delegates to hear information directly from, and question, those who have worked successfully with the community sector.
 

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.