Business Incubators in Preston

About our Business Incubators

Recycling Lives wants to help small businesses with big ideas.

Offering business support, mentoring and branding opportunities, our business incubators give fledgling businesses every chance of success.

We offer:

• Premium office space in central Preston
• Purposely set low-rates to ensure success
• Secure property with extensive CCTV
• Friendly reception services
• Fully equipped communal meeting rooms
• On-site community Café
• Award-winning professional services

If you think our business incubation services could help you and your enterprise, get in touch to arrange a tour of our offices or apply for incubation.

WHO ARE WE?

Recycling Lives proves that social value and commercial success go hand in hand. An industry leading commercial recycler and waste management company, we support and sustain a range of charitable activities through our business operations.

Creating measurable social value and supporting social and environmental sustainability, Recycling Lives’ unique business model aims to change the way that business is done.

OUR SOCIAL
IMPACT

When you choose a business incubator with Recycling Lives, you are also supporting Recycling Lives charitable activities:

• Our HMP Academies support offenders to improve their life and work skills ahead of release to significantly reduce reoffending risks. In prison-based workshops, men and women undertake recycling or fabrication work, earning an enhanced wage, achieving qualifications and developing transferable skills. This helps them to gain full-time work after release.
• Our Residential Charity supports ex-offenders, the homeless and the long-term un-employed into full-time work and a stable independent lifestyle through education. Work experience and training from our training department forms a key aspect of preparing Residents for this outcome.
• Our Food Redistribution Centre reduces food waste by redistributing surplus food from supermarkets and suppliers to charitable organisations across Lancashire and Cumbria.

SOCIAL VALUE

Recycling Lives has created a total of £17.3m Social Value between 2015 and 2018 through our charitable activities - £4.1m in 2015/16, £5.2m in 2016/17 and £8m in 2017/18.

Operating in 11 prisons across the UK, our HMP Academies work with 250 men and women, rehabilitating 36 out of 37 people leaving prison in 2016/17. This near 100% success rate compares with the national average of 33%.

Since its launch in late 2015, our Food Redistribution Centre has distributed 2.2million meals to disadvantaged groups, diverting 913 tonnes of food from landfill in the process. Every week it feeds 5,000 people via its network of more than 180 Community Food Members (CFMs), which include school breakfast clubs, homeless shelters, hospices and food banks.

The Food Redistribution Centre has created £7.8m social value to date - £2.1m in 2015/16, £2.3m in 2016/17 and £3.4m in 2017/18.

Our Residential Charity supported 24 individuals into permanent jobs and their own homes in 2016/18.

These figures save the taxpayer money by relieving pressure on public resources like the judicial system, medical and healthcare services and the benefits system. By using our business incubators your business supports continued savings to the public purse.