| set up a project National Community Wood Recycling Project; helping new social entrepreneurs to set up a Wood Recycling Project of their own!After setting up the Brighton Wood Recycling Project in 1998, Richard Mehmed founded ithe NCWRP in 2003, to encourage and assist the setting up and continued development of new Wood Recycling Projects, based on the award-winning Brighton Project. There are now around 25 affiliated Projects across the UK, set up with the NCWRP's aid. The NCWRP wants to establish lots more wood recycling social enterprises all over the country and we are looking to help organisations and people from all walks of life to become social entrepreneurs and set one up. The community wood recycling business model is quite simple but needs to be properly understood by anyone considering getting in to it. So what is it all about? Well, it is a financially self-supporting, not-for-profit community business. Aims and ObjectivesIts overall objective is to make a contribution to a more sustainable society and its aims are both environmental and social.Specifically, community wood recycling enterprises are set up to; Reduce waste and save resources Create jobs, training and volunteering opportunities for disadvantaged people. So if you are looking for business opportunity that has a high (or even moderate) financial return or you want to develop an enterprise that you can one day sell for a personal profit (and there is nothing wrong in that), this is most likely not the one for you! But if you share our goals of contributing to a more sustainable, socially-just society (and you still want the exhilaration of working for yourself and running a small business) and don’t need to earn a small fortune, then this could well be what you are looking for..so read on. or contact the NCWRP for more information on 01273 203040 |