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Bristol Wood Recycling Project celebrates its 15th Birthday
Bristol Wood Recycling Project is hosting a spring clean of the area around it’s new workspace for its 15th birthday.
After 14 years of working from a temporary location, the project received £430,000 from investors, allowing them to move to a permanent site in St Phillips.
The new workspace is over twice as big as their previous home
To celebrate their move and their birthday, the team are hosting a spring clean of the local area. Involving litter picking and tidying the outside spaces surrounding their new workspace, co-founder Ben Moss is looking forward to the event, saying: “We want the spring clean to show everyone we’re here to stay.
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“We’re ready to start building community relationships with the residents and local businesses, as well as improving the appearance of the area. We want to care for the space around us. If we start caring, other people will too.”
The Bristol Wood Recycling Project has 11 paid members of staff and welcomes up to eight volunteers every day. Volunteering for the social enterprise is popular and helps members of the community to learn new skills.
Regular volunteer Derek has been helping here for over two years since retiring, he says: “Helping here two days a week keeps me active, and part of a team. It’s the best thing I do.”
At Bristol Wood Recycling Project, the workspace is community orientated. Everyone working for the project is paid the same amount, there is no management hierarchy and all of the staff started as volunteers.
The spring clean will be followed by habitat making workshops, with Ben and the team welcoming the public to make birdhouses and other animal habitats to take home or put into the woodland next to the workshop.
Talking about plans for the future, Ben said, “I’d love to see us go carbon neutral, or even carbon positive. Who knows what the future holds.
“Our aim is to make people feel a part of something. We really want to be involved in this regenerative culture, not just in the area of St Philips but also throughout the city and beyond.”
The Bristol Wood Recycling Project’s new home in St Phillips
Photos courtesy of Katie Button
Bristol Wood Recycling Project’s birthday spring clean will take place at 10am on Saturday May 17, find out more at www.bwrp.org.uk
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