NEWS FROM THE REGIONS

EASTERN REGION

Community Mapergy Goes live in the East! The Mapping Community Capacity project quantifies and maps the reuse and recycling of waste in the East England by using a geographic information system ( GIS ) Remade East Mapergy website to map the location of projects in the region and the types of services they are delivering to their communities. The website identifies over 120 organisations that provide re-use and recycling services in 24 material categories.
All the groups listed are community sector, not-for profit organisations operating in the East Anglian region. 
Information regarding the types of waste and resources collected, the tonnage collected in the past year, numbers and types of volunteers and training places provide reliable, up-to-date information to waste managers, social services, training partners and businesses to use within their organisations.
The information also assists charities and community waste organisations/councils and business to establish viable new projects and partnerships and the information will help these groups to develop their business plans and in making bids for external funding.
Visit: http://www.remade.mapergy.org/
Contact: Heidi Seary heidi@crn.org.uk , Gemma Sortwell gemma@crn.org.uk   Lewis Herbert lewis@wastewise.org.uk   01223 411699

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NORTH WEST

The 2007 Waste Strategy identified commercial and industrial waste as a major area of concern and the North West Network is working closely with the Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Programme (BREW) programme in the region to address it. They has just completed research into the capability of North West community sector organisations to provide commercial waste collection services and are about to start a major programme developing the strengths of community waste organisations to meet the commercial waste challenge.
Greater Manchester 3Rs re-use groups recently met with the prospective waste disposal contractor to negotiate closer partnership working on household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) and similar negotiations are being planned in Cumbria, Merseyside and Cheshire.
Contact: Ian Scott ian@crn.org.uk 0161 273 6976

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SOUTH WEST

The national regional programme funded by Defra has recently come to an end and there has been a great deal of work on finding continuation funding for the work that has been going on in the South West over the past two and a half years. At this stage it is necessary to cut back on the services organisations receive whilst this search continues. The CRN UK will be providing a peer exchange email address to allow SW CWN members to share information directly with other groups within the region.

The Community Waste Network South West steering group will continue to meet and feed back important information to this peer network.

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YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER

There is a strong link between waste education work and the education for sustainable development agenda, particularly into schools and colleges. The latter is being pushed by the new Department for Children, Schools and Families, which has identified waste as a key theme in a recent guidance document, and increasingly by local authorities and local education bodies. How to improve reduction, reuse and recycling messages in communities generally, not just through schools, will be discussed by Yorkshire & Humber waste education workers when they gather for a network meeting on Wednesday 5 September, in South Leeds. This event is hosted by BTCV, contact Paul or Mary for further information.
The Community Waste Network team is hoping to be part of a cluster of recycling organisations displaying at this year's Footsey 100 conference on Thursday 18 October at York Racecourse. It provides a great opportunity to network with other community organisations and social enterprises and make links with support agencies & funders. If you are interested in taking part, either as a delegate or an exhibitor, or have already booked, please let Paul or Mary know. If you've been put off by the registration fees, there may be opportunities to share stands with one another.

Contact: Paul Forrest paulf@crn.org.uk , Mary Goldsworthy, mary@crn.org.uk   0113 2003977