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Recycling Lives welcomes our First Resident

On 11th May Recycling Lives opened our doors to our first resident at RL1. Formally an Emmaus Leeds Companion but originally from Cambridge Paul is a fully qualified Chef with 20 years experience behind him. Our Centre Manager Rebecca Wilson was there to greet him and said "We're very excited to welcome our first resident to the Recycling Lives community; he'll play a big part in the development of the charity and we hope that the honour of being chosen as the first resident will encourage him to act as an ambassador for Recycling Lives".

As part of his PDP (Personal Development Plan) Paul is now providing a Breakfast Morning. The menu is available to all occupants of the RL1 building (including the Incubator Units) and other RL buildings such as Autobreakers. He also cooks all meals for the Phase 1 Residents.

Recycling Lives' Social Enterprise Education concept (SEE) means all staff and residents are offered the opportunity to begin or further their education or training and we are very pleased that our first resident has already chosen to undertake a Teaching course through SEE. The qualification will enable him to teach other Residents how to prepare and cook their own meals before moving into Phase 2.

Paul and his first order!

 

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Recycling Lives offers good Corporate Social Responsibility.

Recycling Lives operates nationally to provide a wide range of recycling activities to Local Authorities, commercial organisations and the public. Recycling Lives provides housing, training and long term employment in the recycling sector, to people who would otherwise be homeless; including ex-armed forces personnel, probation and those from chaotic backgrounds.

Each Recycling Lives centre provides up to 48 quality en-suite rooms; training and office facilities; incubator units for entrepreneurs in social enterprise; industrial space for our recycling processes and retail space to sell good manufactured by Recycling Lives from recycled waste.

We do not ask for, or rely on 'gifts' from you, as we always pay fair prices for scrap metal recycling, plastic and other recyclables. By selling your waste to Recycling Lives your organisation helps us to be sustainable and you to show good corporate social responsibility.

Our social enterprise 'manages' good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on your behalf, by ensuring that our recycling activities are carried out by employees that would otherwise be marginalised or even forgotten by society.

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