The Brighton Woodstore, Circus Street, Brighton, East Sussex, the home of the Brighton and Hove Wood Recycling Project.
The Brighton Woodstore, Circus Street, Brighton, East Sussex, the home of the Brighton and Hove Wood Recycling Project. The project is a social enterprise (ie: non profit making), collecting waste timber and building materials from major national and regional building and construction companies - the first aim of the project being to keep waste timber for ending up in landfill sites, being burnt or sent for woodchipping. The collected wood is then recycled by voluntary workers, many drawn from socially disadvantaged groups such as ex-prisoners and the long-term unemployed - with the second aim of the project helping such people gain skills and work experience to enable them to move back into the labour market. The end products are reusable timber for DIY, gardening and building projects and manufactured gift products - for sale to the public at the store and assisting in the fight against global warming by saving new trees being required for these purposes. The experience and success at Brighton has meant that other Community Wood Recycling Social Enterprises have since been set up around the country under the guidance of the National Community Wood Recycling Project (NCWRP) also based in Brighton.
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Location: Circus Street, Brighton, East Sussex, East Sussex, England, UK
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