South West Region Promoting best practice

West of England

Bath & North East Somerset

Education and Awareness Raising

Envolve

Green Park Station, Green Park Road
Bath BA1 1JB
Alasdair Mumford
01225 787921
office@envolve.co.uk
www.envolve.co.uk

Envolve is a charity, established in 1994, which engages people in activities that lead to more healthy and sustainable communities.

Furniture and Electrical

Genesis Furniture Project

31a West Avenue, Oldfield Park
Bath BA2 3QB
Peter George
01225 421111
furniture@genesistrust.org.uk
www.genesistrust.org.uk

Genesis Furniture Project sells donated furniture and household goods. A growing band of volunteers and staff enables them to collect and deliver free of charge within a ten-mile radius of Bath to anyone on benefit.

Recyclables

ECT Recycling Bath

Midland Road Depot, Upper Bristol Road
Bath BA1 3AT
Steve Thorn
01225 310845
bath@ectrecycling.co.uk
www.ectgroup.co.uk

ECT Recycling is the UK’s largest community recycling organisation, working in partnership with local authorities across the country to provide doorstep recycling collections to residents.

Bristol

Education/Awareness Raising

Avon Wildlife Trust

32 Jacobs Wells Road
Bristol BS8 1DR
Pat Ellingham
0117 9177270
mail@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk
www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk

Avon Wildlife Trust is the largest local membership organisation dedicated to promoting and protecting wildlife by creating wildlife havens, acting as a wildlife champion, inspiring people and encouraging sustainable ways of living. The Trust is supported by over 14,000 local members and manages 38 sites as nature reserves.

Resource Futures Ltd

The CREATE Centre, Smeaton Road
Bristol BS1 6XN
Jane Stephenson
0117 930 4355
info@resourcefutures.co.uk
www.resourcefutures.co.uk

Resource Futures promotes ways to reduce, re-use, recycle and compost through various community projects, educational work in schools and consultancy. Bristol’s real nappy network is based here.

Furniture and Electrical

Emmaus Bristol

Shaftesbury House, Kingsland Rd
St. Phillips, Bristol BS2 2QW
Malcolm Thorne
0117 9540886
community@emmausbristol.org.uk
www.emmausbristol.org.uk

Emmaus provides low cost furniture for people in need and raises funds towards building an Emmaus Community. The Community will offer a homeless person a home and work refurbishing donated furniture and household goods to be sold in the Community shop.

re-Store

17 Filwood Broadway, Knowle West
Bristol
Vicky Beckwith
0117 9231970
restore@reworkltd.org.uk
www.reworkltd.org.uk

Providing good quality recycled, renovated and retro furniture at affordable prices.
All our furniture is donated and restored with the help of students and volunteers. We stock a range of beautiful, useful, eccentric home and office furniture and small electrical goods.

Space Trust

St Nicholas House, Lawfords Gate
Bristol BS5 0RE
Heather Ford
0117 9075355

Space Trust collects unwanted furniture in order to provide it to people in need.

The Sofa Project

48-54 West Street, St Philips
Bristol BS2 0BL
Julian Williams
0117 954 3567
info@sofaproject.org.uk
www.likemindedmedia.co.uk/sofaproject

The SOFA Project is a furniture and electrical appliance re-use charity based in Bristol. SOFA collects unwanted items free of charge from across the West and sells them at affordable prices to low income households

Miscellaneous

Grounds4change

Dovercourt Depot,
Dovercourt Road,
Horfield,
Bristol BS7 9SH
0117 9693815
lerraine@grounds4change.co.uk

Primarily a community gardening project, also engaged in community re-use and composting.

Nappies

Babeco

90 Lower Cheltenham Place, Montpelier
Bristol BS6 5LY
Elaine Randall
0117 9351609 F: 0117 9351609
info@babeco.co.uk
www.babeco.co.uk

Babeco aims to use local labour pooled from disadvantaged communities in inner city Bristol to manufacture and retail reusable cotton nappies and other baby products and to increase awareness of the environmental and financial costs of using disposable nappies through planned targeted promotional activity in partnership with the Real Nappy Project Bristol.

Recyclables

Action Aid Recycling

Unit 14 Kingsland Trading Estate
St. Phillips, Bristol BS2 0JZ
0117 3042390 F: 0117 2391
recycling@aarecycling.org.uk
www.actionaidrecycling.org.uk

ActionAid Recycling collect ink and toner cartridges, mobile phones and PDAs for recycling to raise funds for the charity ActionAid. They also supply cartridges and mobile phones.

ECT Recycling Bristol

New Stadium Road, Eastville
Bristol BS5 6NL
Ian James
0117 9525100
bristol@ectrecycling.co.uk
www.ectgroup.co.uk

ECT Recycling is the UK’s largest community recycling organisation, working in partnership with local authorities across the country to provide doorstep recycling collections to residents.

Scrapstore

 

The Children’s Scrapstore

The Proving House, Sevier Street
St Werburghs, Bristol BS2
Jeff Hill
0117 9085644 F: 0117 9085645
enquiries@childrensscrapstore.co.uk
www.childrensscrapstore.co.uk

Taking clean and safe waste products from industry and creating a resource for children’s art and play. A link to the national UK Scrapstore directory is available from their website.

Wood

Bristol Wood Recycling Project

13 CattleMarket Rd, St Phillips
Bristol BS1 6QW
Ben Moss
0117 9723219
info@bwrp.org.uk
www.bwrp.org.uk

Bristol Wood Recycling Project aims to rescue, re-use and recycle some of the tonnes of wood going to landfill locally. They create volunteer, training and employment opportunities for Bristol’s social economy through doing this; as well as providing affordable timber to the local community.

Buried Treasure

The Park, Daventry Road
Knowle West, Bristol BS4 1QD
Mil Lusk
0117 9039782
buriedtreasure2001@hotmail.com

Buried Treasure works with the local community, long term unemployed, volunteers, young people and a wide range of voluntary and statutary groups offering a range of volunteer and work experience opportunties in organic gardening, timber recycling, woodwork and computer recycling.

North Somerset

Composting

Winford Community Composting

3 Brook Cottages, Church Road, Winford
Bristol, BS40 8ER
Hugh Gregor
01275 472603

A community composting bring site, limited access on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Kingston Lane, Winford. Sieved compost.

Education and Awareness Raising

Go Zero
The Old Mill, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna
North Somerset BS40 8SP
info@gozero.org.uk
www.gozero.org.uk

Go Zero is a community project based in Chew Magna that raises awareness of the environmental and social impact of our everyday actions and provides suggestions for change towards a zero waste society.

South Gloucestershire

Composting

South Gloucestershire Community Composting Project

Resource Futures, Create Centre
Smeaton Road, Bristol BS16XN
Charles Maclean
0117 9304355
charles.maclean@resourcefutures.co.uk
www.resourcefutures.co.uk

The two main aims of the project are to target sources of green waste such as domestic garden waste brought to ‘bring’ sites, and to provide a service to local gardening and landscaping contractors. The project operates three sites in South Gloucestershire; Thornbury, Hawksbury Upton and Yate. These sites are for the local community to use and develop. The hope is that they will become a focus for developing a whole range of recycling, re-use and composting initiatives

Furniture and Electrical

Kingswood Furniture Project

Kingsgate House, Church Road
Kingswood Bristol BS15 4AU
Sue Haskins
0117 9616226
sue.haskins@btconnect.com

Kingswood Furniture Project collect donated furniture in the South Gloucestershire area and sell it on to those on a low income.