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Community RePaint West Devon is back on the road!

The campaign received a lot of support from Chagford’s local community and surrounding areas. Proper Job is an extremely important resource for the small rural Dartmoor town. While recycling is at the heart of Proper Job’s operation, the retail income from selling on high-quality but bulky items such as Rayburn ovens, furniture and homemade organic compost, means the enterprise can afford to employ over 7 local people. And of course Proper Job accept and distribute reuseable paint!

Last Christmas pledgers could donate anything from £5 to £1,500 and receive services in exchange. These varied from Artisan Bread Making Sessions, Silver Jewellery Making Workshop, Composting Workshop and Knife Sharpening demonstration to name but a few.

Alison Sallis the site manager says that ‘Now that Proper Job is back on the road we plan to double the amount of waste that we divert from landfill by 2017. We also aim to be able to create more local jobs for young people.’

‘Although there is a growing network of community driven projects – some just composting, some just doing reuse, others involved in growing and selling local produce and many more – there are none quite like Proper Job.’ Alison continued.

The campaign initially started with a 20k online target for a brand new van however this target was lowered to £5000 due to lots of off line donations, and potential to get a good quality second hand van. The second hand van fits the PJ ethos of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The new Iveco Daily Box Van has a tail lift and is perfect for what Proper Job needs it for.

Earth Day 2015 with Community RePaint

Gardening
You can use old paint tins (washed out of course!) as plant pots. Planting trees and plants improves soil, helps clean pollutants in the air, reduces greenhouse gases, improves biodiversity as it provides habitats for animals and birds and prevents erosion.

Nature Craft
You can use some small amounts of paint, available from our schemes to make a new bird house. Remember, the paint that you are using has been saved from going to waste.

Recycling and Reusing
Take any paint that you have lurking in a cupboard or shed to your nearest donation point. Just check the Paint to donate page on our website to find out where you can take it. There will be lots of people and community groups that will want to use your old paint for their own projects.

Get Children Involved
Maybe you have a painting project that you can get the kids to help with? They might want to redecorate something in their bedroom. You can pick up lots of different coloured paints from our schemes. You can explain to the children that the paint you are using will now be used to brighten up their environment instead of entering the natural environment through waste.

Community Awareness
Many of our schemes are involved in environmental activities. You can visit some of the schemes an find out what they do to help the environment. Just check if there is one near you by looking on our Do You Need Paint? page.

Live Better: Community RePaint

Painting an Earth Day Mural
You could get your local community group involved in painting a mural to celebrate Earth Day. You could use paint from your local Community RePaint scheme to do this. You will save paint from going to landfill, raise environmental awareness and will be engaging with you local community – what could be better?

Relaunch for Community RePaint Weymouth

They are hosted by charity Twice As Nice Furniture Reuse Scheme, in partnership with Aster Communities and Synergy Housing – all are welcome! Why not pop down there and see if you can grab a bargain?

Community RePaint Weymouth
Twice as Nice
Gary Urwin
20-22 Albany Road
Weymouth
Somerset
DT4 9TH
07885 807669
Gary.urwin@astercommunities.co.uk
http://www.astercommunities.co.uk/renting-your-home/twice-as-nice/

East London Art Trail Event

Paintasia will focus on the evolution of paint and its effect on the environment from its production to its consumption.
We will be holding a number of events over the next fortnight
starting with a free showing of the critically acclaimed documentary
Waste Lands on the 30th May.
All events will be held at the
Paint Place Shop at Bakers Avenue

 

Look forward to seeing you at the event!

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2c Bakers Avenue, Walthamstow, E17 9AW
02085393856
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Volunteer Week

Every day there are groups across the UK doing just that – by making the most of the low-cost paint available through Community RePaint the UK’s paint reuse network.

One such scheme is in the West Midlands; Community RePaint Black Country is hosted by The Schools and Community Arts Resource Facility (SCARF) and run by volunteers. This innovative arts resource facility supplies quality art and craft resources to the community, which have been sourced from the waste products of local businesses. These materials have been saved from being thrown away and are being reused.

A partnership approach helped put new life back into the Newhampton Arts Centre (NAC), a charity that offers creative opportunities to the local community in Wolverhampton. Community RePaint Black Country provided volunteer group, Friends of NAC, with 45 litres of emulsion, undercoat and gloss paint to give the premises a much needed lift. Staff volunteers from Midcounties Co-operative joined together with the ‘Friends’, to give their time to redecorate the NAC.

Amanda Bevan from Friends of NAC and Women of Wolverhampton said “Isn’t it fantastic how something as simple as paint can bring together the people, charities, a national company and social enterprises of a community together?”

“By re-using paint to support volunteers and their projects Community RePaint can help to bring a splash of colour to communities across the country,” said Community RePaint Network Manager, Martin Pearse. “Purchasing paint for your project at a significantly reduced price means your funds go further, and you’re helping to protect the planet by preventing perfectly good paint from ending up in landfill or heat treatment.”

Community RePaint is a network of more than 75 schemes that collect surplus, reusable paint and re-distribute it to individuals, families and communities in need, improving the wellbeing of people and the appearance of places across the UK.

In 2014, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 446,650 litres of leftover paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 302,256 litres to community groups and individuals. Many of the schemes rely on volunteers to help with the running of their organisations and projects; 508 volunteers support the Community RePaint network.

If your community hall, sports centre or project needs paint, or if you are a family or individual on a low income, get in touch with your nearest Community RePaint scheme by clicking on: http://www.communityrepaint.org.uk/need-paint/ and entering your postcode or call: 0845 180 0501 for more information.

Dulux manufacturer calls for action on waste paint

The call for action has emerged as part of a wider ranging petition, which urges UK policymakers to ‘create a new and bold national policy to increase the use of renewable or other low-carbon energy sources, in order to cut C02 emissions and turn recycling paint into a viable business activity’.

AkzoNobel want the UK government to incentivise UK manufacturers to invest in on-site renewable materials and improve energy efficiency, accompanied by a policy of ‘positive discrimination’ which favours green procurement by government departments.

The Dulux paint manufacturer have access to research which says that  approximately 55 million litres of paint and 90 million paint cans are sent to landfill or incinerated annually. Developing a ‘closed-loop’ recycling system that would allow unwanted paint to be reprocessed into new paint products is a realistic progression for the paint industry and waste management.

AkzoNobel believe that this system will only be possible if the UK adopts a ‘more joined-up approach to waste management’, consolidated at the national level, ‘as is the cast in most other European countries’.

AzkoNobel’s Global Sustainability Manager David Cornish said: “The waste management infrastructure in the UK is peculiarly fragmented, compared with many other European countries. In order to gain access to this waste paint, we might have to make agreements with 433 different authorities in the UK. That makes it impossible to offer consistent advice to consumers on recycling waste paint.

“The current totally devolved model means that progress in this area is much harder to achieve in the UK than in other countries. Standardisation would save costs, reducing the barriers for recycling some materials and would speed up progress towards a circular economy.”

There is mounting pressure on the new Conservative government to focus on growing the green economy. The heads of more than 80 major businesses have published an open letter in the Financial Times calling on David Cameron to seek a strong climate deal in Paris, set an ‘ambitious’ carbon budget for 2028-2032, and ‘establish a long-term framework for investment in the low-carbon economy’.

The Resource Association (RA), moreover, last month called on David Cameron to adapt his ideas for ‘blue-collar Conservatism’ into ‘green-collar Conservatism for the green economy’. The RA are among seven trade associations that wrote to Resource Minister Rory Stewart, offering ‘help [to] turn [England’s stalling waste management] situation around’.

Read the AkzoNobel Submission to the Manufacturing Commission.

Small Charity Week 2015

Here at Community RePaint, we are grateful to all of our schemes who are hosted by registered small charities. These include charity shops, scrapstores, furniture reuse organisations, food banks and environmental charities. They help their local community through Community RePaint, by providing local community groups and individuals with paint, which can be used to brighten up a home or premises, for a mural – or even a paint fight!

For more information on Small Charity Week, please click this link.

Recycle Week 2015: Recycling around the home

By collecting unwanted, surplus paint and re-distributing it to individuals, families and communities in need, the Community RePaint Network is improving the wellbeing of people and the appearance of places across the UK. Recycling domestic paint not only helps the environment, but also gets it onto the walls of people who really need it in your local community.

“By supporting projects like this, Community RePaint can help to bring a splash of colour to communities across the country whilst encouraging the re-use of a valuable resource,” said Community RePaint Network Manager, Martin Pearse. “Purchasing paint for your project – or home – from a Community RePaint scheme at a significantly reduced price means your funds go much further, and it also helps to protect the planet by preventing perfectly good paint from ending up in landfill.”

In 2014, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 446,650 litres of leftover paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 302,256 litres to individuals and community groups. That’s enough paint to fill 28 concrete mixer lorries, which would otherwise have gone to waste!

If you are decorating a community hall, sports centre or church, get in touch with your nearest Community RePaint scheme by  entering your postcode into the Do You Need Paint? page.

If you are a family or individual on a low income you can also receive paint for improving your home from your local Community RePaint scheme, find your nearest Community RePaint scheme by entering your postcode into the Do You Need Paint? page or call: 0845 180 0501 for more information.

Watch the Recycle Now film on items around the home that you can recycle – you may not have thought about how much there is to recycle around the home before!

New Craft Store for Community RePaint Black Country

SCARF – The School and Community Arts Resources Facility – is launching a new recycling craft centre at City of Wolverhampton College’s Paget Road Campus on June 25.

The craft pack store will sell art and craft kits put together from the waste products of local businesses, suitable for creative projects for all ages. These include materials such as plastic, fabric, tiles, foam blocks, feathers, ribbons and tubes.

The not-for-profit social enterprise will give students a live experience of working in a successful business. They will have the opportunity to get involved in many areas of the company, including marketing; customer services; product design and development as well as supporting the running creative workshops.

The store will be the second centre for SCARF, who already have a base at Eastfield Primary School, Colliery Road.

Manager Krystyna Sochacki, has been employed by the college for nine years as an Art and Design lecturer and assessor and also works as a lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. She said: “I’m excited to be partnering SCARF and the college to support opportunities and training for students, giving them valuable experiences and skill sets for the future.

“SCARF is heavily used by schools, colleges, universities, community groups and families across the Midlands, so it will be a wonderful opportunity to have a second site to broaden accessibility to provisions.

“We look forward to exciting times ahead!”

Curriculum Manager for Creative Arts Michael Dixon says about the project “It’s a pleasure to be working with SCARF in their new venture, giving our students the opportunity to gain valuable insight and work experience in Community Arts.”

SCARF is Wolverhampton’s ethical arts and crafts supplier. For 10 years it has been up-cycling good-quality materials from businesses, to be reused in arts and education across the Midlands.

The launch takes place in collaboration with the End of Year Art and Design Show on the evening of 25th June 2015.

The new premises will not have Community RePaint paint available, as yet, but will promote the paint at the original scheme:

Community RePaint Black Country
SCARF Enterprises
Kryssy Sochacki
Eastfield Community Site
Colliery Road
Wolverhampton
WV1 2QY
01902 558603
info@scarf4art.co.uk
http://www.scarf4art.co.uk/
Open in school term Tue 2pm-6pm, Wed 1pm-5pm

Community RePaint Cambridgeshire help revamp for Natwest RugbyForce weekend

RugbyForce, a nationwide community volunteer programme, helps local rugby clubs to improve their facilities. Every year the Natwest RugbyForce Weekend encourages volunteers and users of their local rugby clubhouses to get together for some fun-filled DIY and make a positive difference to club facilities, ready for the season ahead. From grassroots to the RBS 6 Nations Championship, NatWest, part of the RBS Group, is proud to support rugby at every level. Last year, they helped over 400 local clubs across the UK to get a makeover.

At the heart of NatWest RugbyForce is the goal of making clubs a more sustainable business and securing their future in the long-term. That’s where Community RePaint come in! Clubhouses who need to repaint the club social area or changing facilities can approach their local Community RePaint scheme for paint. In this way the rugby clubhouses can save money by getting their paint at a fraction of full price, and help the environment by using paint that would otherwise have gone to waste.

Last weekend, community spirit shone through as March sports pavilion got a major revamp with the help of local businesses – including CCORRN, who host Community RePaint Cambridgeshire and donated paint for the revamp.

March Bears Natwest Rugby Force weekend.

Elm Road field sports pavilion got a much needed makeover thanks to the efforts of volunteers from Fenland sports clubs and businesses.

March Bears Natwest Rugby Force weekend.

For the Natwest Rugby Force weekend, March Bears members were joined by volunteers from March Rangers and March AC to carry out the work. The fixtures and fitting were removed and the internal walls repaired as the pavilion received a complete revamp inside and out. The surrounding area also got some attention, as bushes were manicured and cleared out.

A host of businesses contributed to the successful community event – CCORRN Community Repaint donated paint, Trade Link Window Solutions sponsored all the new windows and doors. Nathan Fuller, Garden Clearance, Hedge Cutting and Field Maintenance, cleared out bushes and Godden’s Carpets and Furnishings will be putting new flooring in the changing rooms.

March Bears president Barry Feetham said: “I would like to thank all the local companies who have sponsored this community project – Trade Link Window Solutions, CCORRN Community RePaint, Nathan Fuller, Garden Clearance, Hedge Cutting and Field Maintenance, and Godden’s Carpets and Furnishings.

“The sports pavilion had slowly deteriorated over a number of years and despite the efforts of a group of hard core volunteers to keep it looking tidy, the task of keeping the pavilion clean and tidy should now be a lot easier.

“Again many thanks to each and every one of the team of volunteers who gave up their weekend to make the transformation happen.”

It’s great news to hear

For more information and to register for the NatWest RugbyForce programme, please visit www.rfu.com/natwestrugbyforce

Read the original article in the Cambs Times here.