Composting

Clarence Community Farm

Off Holly Terrace, Port Clarence, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS2 1SZ
Dave Featherstone
01642 371642 (Daytime)
Open Tue to Sun from 10am to 4:30pm (Summer and Winter).

Clarence Community Farm is a small animal farm with rare breeds. It provides environmental education, wildlife volunteering, recreational site with play areas, pond dipping and education relating to animal welfare. The farm composts the manure on site and this is made available to gardens and allotment holders from the surrounding area.

HEAP Community Composting Project

Owton Fens Community Association, 244/246 Catcote Road, Hartlepool, Tees Valley, TS25 3JN
Kevin Cranney, Mark Ashman
01429 283 187 F: 01429 283186
info@ofca.org.uk
www.ofca.org.uk/

Hartlepool Environmental Awareness Project (HEAP) was set up with the aim of making the general public aware of the need to recycle green waste in order to reduce the amount of biodegradable waste being land filled. HEAP is a community composting project that aims to make use a variety of waste streams from local sources and offer back good quality compost to the local community. HEAP will compliment OFCA’s Volunteer Initiative Project by collecting and disposing the grass cuttings from the garden tidying service provided for the elderly and disabled. It also aims to work with OFCA’s Youth Opportunities Building Scheme which offers agricultural training and as such will supply farm waste to the compost process. The project aims to increase community participation and awareness in the recycling of garden waste by informing clients about other environmental initiatives when waste is collected. Also tree wood waste will be used to provide shredded chipped wood and a further input into the compost process.

Hartlepool Community Composting Scheme

1 Church Street, Hartlepool, Tees Valley, TS24 7DS
Becky Jackson
01429 524 059
rebecca.jackson@hartlepool.gov.uk.
www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=273

This kerbside compost collection operates in the deprived wards of Hartlepool: Brus, St Hilda, Dyke House, Jackson, Stranton, Rossmere and Owton wards. Householders' can sign up and their garden waste is collected every fortnight from outside their homes and taken for composting at a central site. Volunteers process the material and the finished product is ideal for feeding garden soil. What is produced is made available to and distributed back to, scheme members, free of charge. After running for 8 months in 2005 the scheme managed to collect 21 tonnes of garden waste. Special bio-degradable bags that can be used to collect the green waste are now available, and can be purchased in rolls of 10 at the Civic Centre reception.

The Compost Crew - Middlesbrough Environment City

Melrose House, Melrose Street, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS1 2XL
Mary Whiting
01642 264 979 /01642 264 954 F: 01642 264 944
menvcity@aol.com
www.menvcity.org.uk

The Compost Crew have set up Turn to Compost, a 2 year project to increase the amount of garden and meat-excluded kitchen waste composted in Middlesbrough. The project focuses on providing advice, support and training for individuals and communities, encouraging them to participate in home and community composting through a kerbside collection scheme, development of composting facilities in schools and community buildings and facilitating home composting.

End of Life Vehicle Recycling

SHELVE - Sustainable Hartlepool End of Life Vehicle Enterprise

Owton Fens Community Association, 244/246 Catcote Road, Hartlepool, Tees Valley, TS25 3JN
Kevin Cranney, Alan McPartain
01430 283 187 F: 01430 283186
info@ofca.org.uk
www.ofca.org.uk/

SHELVE aims to develop a sustainable community enterprise that will recover and recycle 85-95 per cent of end of life vehicles that will: reduce landfill waste; provide new employment opportunities for people from disadvantaged wards throughout Hartlepool; increase the employability of people particularly young people from disadvantaged wards by providing training and work experience opportunities and increase the public's awareness and participation in recycling by providing environmental information.

Furniture and Electricals

F.R.A.D.E. (Furniture Reclamation & Delivery Enterprise) – Stockton

68-69 Brunswick Street, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1DY John Trevillion
T: 01642 608791 F: 01642 604422
frade1@hotmail.co.uk
opening hours Monday to Friday 9a.m. to 4p.m.
Saturdays 10a.m. to 3p.m.

We stock a wide range of household furniture and electrical appliances (including washing machines) and also refurbished bicycles.
We cover the boroughs of Stockton on Tees and Middlesbrough from this address. We are open to the general public

F.R.A.D.E. (Furniture Reclamation & Delivery Enterprise) – Darlington

14 - 16 Leadenhall Street, Darlington DL1 1RD Chris Lax 01325 357379 frade2@hotmail.co.uk  Opening hours as for the Stockton project

Cover the whole of Darlington borough and parts of South Durham, and parts of Hambleton and Richmondshire.

Settlement Furniture Services (SFS) – Hartlepool

Swales Enterprise, Moreland Street, Hartlepool, Tees Valley, TS24 7NL
Les Harbron
01429 272 272
sfs.southbank@btconnect.com
Open 9-5 Monday to Thursday and 9-4.30 Friday

SFS collect unwanted furniture and white goods that are in working order (including fridges and cookers), refurbishes and then provides affordable furniture and white goods for eligible customers within the community. They also employ a development worker who provides education, awareness raising and promotional visits.

Settlement Furniture Services – Middlesbrough

Units 2&3 Metcalfe Rd, Skippers Lane, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS6 6PT
Les Harbron
01642 463862
sfs.southbank@btconnect.com
Open 9-5 Monday to Thursday and 9-4.30 Friday

The "Recycling for Reuse" project collects unwanted furniture and white goods that are in working order (including fridges and cookers), refurbishes and distributes them to the community. They reduce waste going to landfill sites, improve the local environment and provide affordable furniture and white goods for eligible customers and are now providing services within East Cleveland. They also employ a development worker who provides education, awareness raising and promotional visits.

Real Nappies

Real Nappy Campaign

Moira Neish
01642 570641
Moira.Neish@btopenworld.com

Brian Simpson
01642 527 259
b.simpson@stockton.gov.uk

Lousie Tully
01833 641175

Alison Smith
alison.smith500@ntlworld

The group aim to promote, educate and demonstrate the environmental impact and savings of using cloth nappies. They have been together since 2003, and have promoted real nappies through speaking to groups, holding stalls at markets and fetes, and by organizing a full week of events during Real Nappy Week. The scheme is run by three volunteers (who are real nappy users and who won the council’s 2004 award for recycling champions), and Brian Simpson (Stockton BC). Meetings are held once a month at the Sure Start offices to plan how to keep moving the scheme forward. They also run "nappachinos" coffee mornings on the first Wednesday of the month at Splash in Stockton 10am – 12pm. Moira Neish is the Lollipop Real Nappy Agent for Sedgefield and Stockton and Louise Tulley acts for Teesdale.

IT Reuse, and Recycling

The Butterwick Hospice

Middlesfield RoadStockton-on-Tees Tees Valley TSa9 8XN
Betty Lee
01642 607742 F: 01642 617641
general@butterwick.org.uk
www.butterwick.org.uk/shops.html

We welcome your unwanted bits and pieces which help to raise necessary funds for the hospice and we are grateful to receive: quality clothing, bric-a-brac, books, household items and we also take mobile phones, batteries and chargers plus printer and toner cartridges.

We also welcome opportunites to work in partnership with other organisations, such as a schools environmental competition run to recycle Yellow Pages, were we worked with the Woodland Trust, Sedgefield Borough Council and Foreman Recycling in Spennymoor which allowed directories to be recycled and used to make cardboard boxes.

Waste Awareness and Education

Groundwork South Tees -Saltburn

26 Station Street, Saltburn by the Sea, Cleveland, TS12 1AE
Claire Gallagher
01287625326
claire.gallagher@groundwork.org.uk
www.groundwork-southtees.org.uk/

The role of Groundwork South Tees is to complement and add value to the work of existing local organisations such as Middlesborough Council, Environment City and the Tees Forest, by contributing to sustainable regeneration within the themes of:
Bringing about physical environmental improvements
Educating and involving the community
Integrating the economy with the environment

Groundwork South Tees - Middlesbrough office

Linthorpe Cemetery Lodge, Burlam Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, Tees Valle,y TS5 5AP
Judith Hopper
01642 815663 F: 01642 818024
judith.hopper@groundwork.org.uk

Friends of the Earth Hartlepool

Peter Tweddle
01429 263310
peter.tweddle@btopenworld.com

Friends of the Earth Hartlepool

Anita Hufton
01642 321766

Settlement Furniture Services (SFS) – Hartlepool

Swales Enterprise, Moreland Street,Hartlepool, Tees Valley, TS24 7NL
Les Harbron
01429 272 272
sfs.southbank@btconnect.com
Open 9-5 Monday to Thursday and 9-4.30 Friday

SFS employ a development worker who provides education, awareness raising and promotional visits.