EVENTS AND TRAINING

Reusing Building and Construction Waste in the East/South East of England
This event is for people working in construction, house building, site development, architects, consultants, demolition planning, re-use social enterprises and recycling/waste management. Others welcome.
Speakers & workshops to explain opportunities to increase building and construction reuse and recycling, promote the potential for Building Materials Reuse Centres, identify regional sources of support and expertise.
East England Workshop
Tuesday 11 September 2007
Cambridge
London/South East Workshop
Monday 10 September 2007
Surrey
Discounted places for community organisations
Free to CRED funded projects
Contact: gemma@wastewise.org.uk 01223 411494

More than Furniture Conference
Opera Studio, RSAMD, Glasgow
Thursday 30 August 2007
Focusing on partnership working and future opportunities. The keynote speaker is Steven Buchanan, Project Delivery Manager at Furniture Matters an award winning Lancaster based recycling, re-use and training charity Other speakers include Jenny Chapman, FRN Social Inclusion Champion and Director of The Vine Project, Sophy Copland discussing Partnership Working with Housing Associations, Robert Stewart who will launch the Glasgow Furniture Initiative.
Contact: Joyce Walsh 01786 469002 events@crns.org.uk http://www.crns.org.uk/index/mtf2007

The Scottish Waste Education Support Programme (SWESP)
Waste Education: Above and below the primary school, 25 September 2007
Waste Education: Composting and packaging, 26 September 2007
Edinburgh
SWEP managed by Changeworks, is repeating its highly successful and exciting training courses in waste education. These interactive courses provide the trainee with an invaluable opportunity to further their skills for delivering high impact waste education to young people. Anybody currently tasked with promoting reduce, re-use, recycle to young people or wishing to add an environmental dimension to their work with young people, could benefit from these great value modules.
Closing date for bookings: Friday 7 September 2007, early booking discount pre 24 August
Contact: 0131 538 7942, swesp@changeworks.org.uk
Web: www.changeworks.org.uk

Recycling roadshows
Next UK Tour September 2007. Primary school pupils’ recycling roadshow from USA
Contact: Magic Timothy info@RecyclingRoadshow.com www.RecyclingRoadshow.com.

Community Composting Network's Annual Conference
Growing with Compost: how meeting landfill directive targets creates opportunities for economic, social and sustainable community regeneration.

21 - 23 September 2007

Lee Valley Youth Hostel, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire

http://www.communitycompost.org/events/index.htm

Cylch 10th Annual Conference

Creating Sustainable Communities though Recycling
24 - 25 October 2007
Mariott Hotel, Cardiff

http://www.cylch.org/cylch-conference-programme.html

Social Enterprise Sustainable Waste & Research Network Seminar 3

24 July 2007

London

This free one-day event aims at disseminating project findings to practitioners, policy makers and researchers about the capacity findings, case study findings, stakeholder views and the strategic challenges facing the social enterprise and community waste sector for effective inclusion into an integrated and sustainable waste management infrastructure in UK.

Contact: Liz Heming, BRASS heminge@cf.ac.uk    http://www.brass.cf.ac.uk/

Reusing Building and Construction Waste in the East/South East of England (others also welcome)

This event is for people working in construction, house building, site development, architects, consultants, demolition planning, re-use social enterprises and recycling/waste management.
Speakers & workshops to explain opportunities to increase building and construction reuse and recycling, promote the potential for Building Materials Reuse Centres, identify regional sources of support and expertise.

East England Workshop
Tuesday 11 September 2007

Cambridge
Discounted places for community organisation

London/South East Workshop
Monday 10 September 2007
Surrey

Contact: amelia@wastewise.org.uk   01223 411494

WRAP Recycling Managers Training Course
Courses are aimed at recycling and waste officers and managers in local authorities and those from not-for-profit/community organisations or private waste management companies who are directly involved in delivering and managing local authority recycling.

For September - December 2007 dates & locations visit

http://www.wrap.org.uk/local_authorities/training/index.html

Women & Work: Sector Pathways Initiative
Raising Skills and Unlocking Potential. To help in the up-skilling of women in the energy and utilities sector, Energy & Utility Skills is offering sector employers the benefit of a highly subsidised Women & Work: Personal Development Programme, designed to equip women with the tools they need to help with their career development. This opportunity is currently available to employees working in England only.

http://www.wrap.org.uk/local_authorities/training/index.html

Environmental Conservation (Community Recycling) Level 2 NVQ

This NVQ is designed for:

•  Waste operatives

•  Community Recycling - Local Authority or voluntary sector recycling operatives or technicians and kerbside collection staff

•  Shop floor staff/operatives

The NVQ aims to improve an individuals understanding relating to waste management and ensures that they are competent to segregate, store, transport, recycle and dispose of waste in accordance with organisational policies, procedures and applicable legislation. This qualification also supports sites waste management licences.

EMS are approved providers with A4e employment in Yorkshire and Humberside, East Midlands, West Midlands, London and the North East and can offer 100% funding for level 2 NVQ's in Community Recycling. To discuss eligibility criteria: Tel:   01246 418913, info@em-solutions.co.uk   www.em-solutions.co.uk

WRAP Collection crew communications future training

WRAP are producing toolbox talks to help collection crews to communicate better with the public and increase recycling. Downloadable versions are expected to be available through the WRAP website by the end of the summer . These new training packages include materials for interactive sessions that can be delivered in the depot. They are designed to be delivered by supervisors and guidance on how to use the materials will be included. Sessions, which will provide underpinning knowledge for the NVQ level 2 in Recycling Operations, will include 'Understanding the bigger picture', 'Knowing about local issues', 'Good and bad environmental practice', 'Dealing with conflict' and 'Engaging with the public'.

Strategic Carbon Management MBA

Norwich UEA are launching the first the first MBA in this subject. The first intake of students will be in January 2008. It is hoped the MBA will accelerate the emergence of the next generation of managers who will be able to lead confidently and positively towards the low carbon economy.

Every Action Counts
Every Action Counts is a Defra initiative (England only) focused on enabling community and voluntary organisations to look at the wider sustainable development issues within their organisations. The programme covers resource use, energy, ethical shopping, sustainable transport and caring for your local environment.

CRN UK and FRN are both involved in this initiative and as part of this we encourage your community group to become involved as well. Please register your organisation at www.everyactioncounts.org.uk to access the available advice and the list of easy steps to benefit your group.

Interested in free training?
Do you have any volunteers or members of staff who may be interested in becoming a Community Champion? One aim of the Every Action Counts programme is to recruit 'Community Champions' who will work through action plans with organisations to help them develop more sustainable practices.
Champions will be equipped to work voluntarily with a variety of community organisations to look at sustainable development within an organisation and to run through a toolkit to identify changes they can make.

Community Champions will attend a FREE two day accredited training course. Part of this training will focus on presentation and facilitation skills as well as training on wider sustainable development issues.

Course dates will be set as required and BTCV (who are delivering the training and community champions initiative) will adapt dates to suit. For example, if a group register together they can arrange dates and location to suit.

To register and further info: www.btcv.org/communitychampions
When registering your organisation or as a Community Champion, please indicate you have heard of this initiative through the Community Recycling Network.
Contact: Lizzy White via eac@crn.org.uk