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Cambridgeshire

Composting

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 local community and earn recycling credits from East Cambridgeshire District Council .The compost is then used by the community 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.

Food

Cambridge Foodbank

Unit 5,Craven Way
Newmarket
Ken 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.

Furniture and Electricals

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 housing 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 Street, 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.

IT Equipment

Reboot

The Social Enterprise Centre
Eastern Court
182-190 Newmarket Road
Cambridge
CB5 8HE

Open: Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday   
10.00 till 5.30 and Sats 10 till 2.00
T:01223 365917

E:pete.wickham@i-trust.org.uk

W:www.shopatreboot.co.uk

Map:http://www.tinyurl.com/reboot-cambridge 

Links:www.i-trust.org.uk

        www.cover-east.org

Supporting people into work by recycling computers

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.

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.

Recoup

1 Metro Centre
Wellbeck way
Woodston
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE2 7UH
John Simmons
01733 390021
enquiry@recoup.org
www.recoup.org

Scrapstore

Compass Restore

Unit 7, Mawell Road, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 7HU
Stella Keir
01733 371760
stella.compass@ukonline.co.uk
www.compasspeterboroughltd.com/RestoreMainpage.htm
Materials are collected from donating local industry, businesses and organisations and used as art supplies

Cambridge Scrap Store

Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1BY
Hannah Townsend
01223 457873
hannah.townsend@cambridge.gov.uk
Mobile service going out to community centres and schools offering paper, card, textiles, and plastics.Materials are collected from donating local industry, businesses and organisations.

Tools

Tools for Self Reliance

Peterborough
351 Fulbridge Road, Peterborough, PE4 6SJ Arthur Marsh
01733 572831
Donald Henderson
dmhenderson@clara.co.uk
www.tsfr.org.uk
tools@gn.apc.org
www.tsfr.org.uk
Supports workers in some of the world's poorest countries refurbishing tools and collecting unwanted tools from collection points

Wood

Branching Out

27 Grange Lane, Littleport, Ely,
Cambs, CB6 1HW
Terry Brook
01353 863221 08714 335807
enquiries@branching-out.uk.net
www.branching-out.uk.net
Provides opportunities for disabled people wishing to gain work experience in, recycling of computers, wood, and the making of garden furniture. assistance with marketing and networking.

 

Miscellaneous

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Community Reuse and Recycling Network (CCORRN)

L5 South Fens Business Centre,Fenton Way,Chatteris,Cambs,PE16 6TT
01354 669900
Nikki DiGiovani
admin@ccorrn.org.uk
www.ccorrn.org.uk
Support organisations to increase the number of reuse and recycling organisations in Cambs and Peterborough.

Eastex  Materials Exchange Programme

Peterborough Environment City Trust
1st Floor, 4 - 6 Cowgate
Peterborough
PE1 1NA
Tel: 01733 866436
Fax: 01733 553716
email: kim.coley@pect.org.uk
www.eastex.org.uk/cambs

Green Futures

Peterborough Environment City Trust
The Green House
1st Floor
4-6 Cowgate
Peterborough
PE1 1NA
Tel: 01733 866440
jill.foster@pect.org.uk
A free online information service where organisations can access information about redundant stock or surplus raw materials available from other organisations.