NEWS FROM THE REGIONS

EASTERN REGION

Resource Saver Update
Resource Saver have been very busy since the last update and are pleased to welcome their new Volunteer Coordinator- Jude Warrender who previously worked for CRN on the CRED programme.

Since April 2007 they have:-

• Diverted 65 tonnes of waste resources to the community sector
• Assisted 435 businesses
• Leveraged £147,415 to the community sector
• Trained 72 people on the CIWM Waste Awareness Course
• Assisted 91 community groups

They have now also trained 6 people on the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, Environmental Awareness Course, and hope to offer this course soon at a discounted rate to the community sector.

Resource Saver have also formed an alliance with the Materials Exchange Eastex to be able to offer a joined up approach to supporting community waste groups and their needs.  If you’re in the East and haven't registered with them then please let them know!

Resource Saver thank all groups that have helped with receiving goods and hope to be able to beat last quarters outputs by assisting them even more.  So if you need to update them with what's going on with your organisation please let Gemma know.

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 commercial agenda is gathering pace with the WRAP Business Waste Collection Fund finally having been announced. The network is about to launch a programme of support for organisations eager to commence collection services to the business community. If you are interested please contact North West Community Waste Network (NWCWN) and watch this space for further developments.

Contact: Ian Scott ian@crn.org.uk 0161 273 6976

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SOUTH WEST

The national regional programme funded by Defra came to an end this year 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

An exciting project came to fruition this month on the streets of Sheffield. Space Of Waste, coordinated by Bradford Environmental Action Trust, is a construction which drew on the ingenuity and vision of the region's architects, engineers, builders and designers. The project showed that one person's waste is another person's resource and that through resourceful architecture a waste of space can become a Space Of Waste.

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