Compass is a charity, helping people in Peterborough and the surrounding areas. Compass IT receives donations of old computers and computer accessories from local businesses and people from the local community. These computers are then re-furbished by their skilled volunteers and sold at a low price to the public. Compass IT can also provide very good computers to those who would not normally be able to afford one.

Compass also run the electrical appliance recycling project which is a partnership between Peterborough City Council and Compass Peterborough Ltd to increase the city’s recycling rates, encourage regeneration and supply affordable electrical appliances back into the community.The project aims to recycle used or damaged white goods either by repairing the items where possible or dismantling them and recycling the individual materials. The project also provides the opportunity to develop new back-to-work skills.

Compost

Burwell Community Composting
c/o 41 The Paddocks, Burwell,
Cambs CB5 0HQ
Wyn Williams
01638 742086
Volunteers shred and compost green waste delivered by the villager's and earn recycling credits from East Cambridgeshire District Council .The compost is then used by the villager's in their gardens or allotments.

Girton Parish Council
26 High Street, Girton
John Rankin
01223 565219
john.ranken@virgin.net
www.sustainable-girton.org.uk
Encourages ecological awareness and environmental practice in Girton. We help Girton residents reduce their environmental footprint by energy conservation, generation, and waste reduction. Run a community composting scheme.

The National Trust -Anglesey Abbey
Quy Road, Lode,
Cambridgeshire, CB5 9EJ
Head Gardener
01223 810080 01223 810088
angleseyabbey@nationaltrust.org.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Black Gold Composting initiative aims to reduce the amount of green household waste through composting in six local communities in Cambridgeshire.

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Food

Cambridge Foodbank
Unit 5,Craven Way
Newmarket
Keith Smith
01638 561711
foodbank@btconnect.com
www.cambridgefoodbank.co.uk
Collects surplus groceries donated by the food industry and redistributes these goods to voluntary sector agencies working with disadvantaged groups of people.

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Furniture and electricals

Branching Out
Branching Out
27 Grange Lane, Littleport, Ely,
Cambs, CB6 1HW
Susan Wiggans
Tel: 01353 863221
enquiries@branchingoutuk.net
www.branchingoutuk.net

We Provide work experience opportunies for Adults with learning disabilities with a focus on the enviroment and community invovlement. Our services include Steel/Aluminium Can/foil recycling, Garden furniture made from recycled and sustainable timber as well as wood recycling. We have 3 Charity shops, 1 Based in Littleport and 2 in
Chatteris, which accepts good reusable items.



Cambridge SOFA
Unit H, The Paddocks, 347 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, CB1 8DH
Nicky Saunders
01223 576535 01223 576536
reuse@cambridgesofa.org.uk
recycle@cambridgesofa.org.uk
www.cambridgesofa.org.uk
Takes unwanted furniture and makes it available to anyone in receipt of benefit or on a low income.

Compass SOFA & Compass Electricals
Unit 24, Maxwell Road, Woodston, Peterborough PE2 7JD
Stella Kier
01733 232383
stella.compass@ukonline.co.uk
www.compasspeterboroughltd.com
Providing furniture, Electrical goods and essential item to those in need. Advice through Debt, Welfare Benefit and Employment Law

Emmaus Cambridge
Green End, Landbeach,
Cambridge, CB25 9FD
Paul Bain
01223 863657
info@emmauscambridge.org
www.emmauscambridge.org
Emmaus Cambridge provides low cost furniture and delivery for people in need and raises funds towards building an Emmaus Community. The Community will offer homeless people a home and work refurbishing donated furniture and household goods to be sold in the Community shop.

Fenland Family Support Centre
69a Queens Rd, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 2PH
Sue Cook
01954 582567
fenfamsupport@btopenworld.com
This support centre offers counselling and houseing advice.Provides reasonably priced second hand furniture, and welcomes donations.

St Barnabas
Unit 11B, Black Stone Road, Stukeley Meadows, Huntingdon, Cambs PE29 6HG
Doreen Cousins
01480 437755
Collects and passes on at low cost furniture, white goods and household goods to those on benefit, or referred.

Salvation Army
Kings Ripton Court,Kings Ripton Road,Huntingdon,Cambridgeshire,PE28 2NZ
Nicola Straw
01480 423800
nicola.straw@salvationarmy.org.uk
Collect furniture, white goods,and scrap materials


The Ferry Project
The Corner House, 17 Norfolk Stree, Wisbech,Cambs
Keith Smith
01945 467596 01945 428695
hope@ferryproject.wanadoo.co.uk
Charity helps homeless. Any good quality furniture, appliances or carpets that are left behind by former tenants will be used by those who the project is seeking to help.

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IT Equipment

Reboot
Cambridge
CB1 2QF
01223 365917
pete.wickham@red2green.org
www.red2green.org/reboothtm
Supporting people into work by recycling computers

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Nappies

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Real Nappy Network (CPRNN)
44 Newtown Road , Ramsey
Huntingdon, PE26 1EQ
0845 644 304
www.realnappy.net
Promotes the use of washable nappies and thus to reduce the environmental impact of disposable nappies.

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Recyclables

Fenland Area Community Enterprise Trust (FACET)
Marwick Centre, Marwick Road, March, Cambs, PE15 8PH
Linda Ingram
01354 655080
lindaing@waitrose.com
FACET provides training, work experience/placements and employment opportunities for people aged 16+ with learning or any other form of disability.

Opportunities Without Limits (OWL)
Sawston Village College, New Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3BP
Gill Riley
Main Office 01223 835329
gill.riley@owlgroup.org.uk
www.owlgroup.org.uk
OWL provides work based training and supported employment for people with learning and other disabilities within the community through social training enterprise many of which are based on recycling activities. Collecting aluminium cans, inkjet cartridges and mobile phones for recycle/reuse, plus a container next to OWL in the Sports Centre Car Park at Sawston Village College for people put clothes and shoes-in-twos in for reuse.
OWL Bikes:  01223 839580
Collects unwanted bicycles ‘idle bikes’ and refurbishes them for sale/reuse or dismantles for recycling parts and scrap.