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  October 2007
 


MEMBERS NEWS


Monmouthshire Community Recycling Scheme
Mid Devon Community Recycling Ltd & ECT
EMERGE
Changeworks
Chelmsford Environment Partnership
ECCO
WISH
Family First
Bradford Environmental Action Trust
Owten Fens



EVENTS AND TRAINING
Furniture Matters - Knowledge Sharing Day
Social Enterprise Day
What To Do When the Funding Runs Out!
Community RePaint Training Events
Recycling in Schools training course
Getting a Fair Deal from Contracts (London)
WRAP Recycling Managers Training Course
Women & Work: Sector Pathways initiative
WRAP Collection crew communications future training
Strategic Carbon Management MBA
Every Action Counts - Free Training

DISCOUNTS, FREEBIES and FOR SALE
Pocket Green Guides
Fundraising prizes for charities
Free ACEVO publications
Free downloadable resources
Publication discounts
NCVO Membership
Reduced rate software
Printers
Can crusher for free
Funding toolkit NCVO
Free Job Vacancies on the CRN UK website
New Sector Magazine
Free Low Energy Lightbulbs
Free Computers/Internet Access
Free guide: Make giving go further - A Fundraiser's Guide to Tax-Effective Giving
Free Internet payroll system

WEBSITES
The Campaign for Real Recycling
Communities and Local Government
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Business waste advice
Online recycling information system
Poverty indicators
Green voice
CO2 Calculator
Performance Hub
New Community RePaint website

CONSULTATIONS AND REPORTS
Consultation on the Cabinet Office Code of Practice on Consultation
Waste Management Licences consultation on changes
Consultation on recycling targets for packaging for 2008 and thereafter
In work, better off: next steps to full employment, consultation
Consultation on Government Guidance for EU Directives and Waste Technical Competence
Risk capital investment fund for social enterprise
Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction a consultation paper July 2007
'Recycle on the Go' consultation launch
Petition: Charity exemption from VAT
Incentives for Recycling by Households

Waste Strategy for England 2007
Residual Waste Research - Friends of the Earth
New rules for non-hazardous waste
Volunteering Works
Health & safety training: guidelines for the waste and recycling industry
Defra waste and resources research programme
Revised WEEE Guidance Document
Community Composting Activity in the UK 2006
Your waste your responsibility - Environment Agency fact sheet for businesses
Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2007
Local environmental quality survey - DEFRA
Public Attitudes and Behaviours toward the Environment: 2007 DEFRA Survey
Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme Planning Systems Guidance - DEFRA
Third Sector Action Plan
Measuring Real Value: a DIY guide to Social Return on Investment
The future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration: final report
Alternate weekly collections revised guidance
Tender Readiness Toolkit - SCEDU
•Poverty Indicator for Wales updated
Setting up and running charity shops
- Adding Value Beyond Funding
- Defra Municipal Waste Management Statistics 2005/06
- A Rough Guide to Individual Carbon Trading
- A Better Way to Recycle: Co-operative and Community Approaches to Recycling
- Understanding Food Waste
- Dealing with food waste in the UK
- Code of Practice for collection of WEEE from designated Collection Facilities
- Health Impact Assessment of Alternate Week Waste Collections of Biodegradable Waste

FUNDING AND AWARDS
•Environmental Transformation Fund
•WRAP Funding for Senior Management Training Scheme
•Abbey Charitable Trust
•Playful Ideas Programme
•Connecting Communities Plus
•Changing spaces
•Award partner grant schemes are not yet open to applications
•Community Assets Programme
•The European Social Fund (ESF) programme for 2007- 2013
•Loans
•It's Your Community
•£10m risk capital investment fund
•Talk Talk Innovations in the Community Awards 2007
•Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
•Vodaphone UK Reach Funding Programme
•Big Invest Finance
- Funding Update
•Third Sector Awards
•Future Builders
•Adventure Capital Fund
•Lloyds TSB Foundation
- The Conservation Foundation - 'It's Your Community' Grants
- Lloyds TSB
- Other Funding Leads and Info
- Other Links

UPDATES
- General Updates
- Staff Updates

NEWS FROM THE REGIONS
Eastern
North-West
South West
Yorkshire and the Humber

 

     
 
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