EMERGE has received funding to develop extra capacity to support and train EMERGE FareShare volunteers. We aim to develop a more robust and structured programme to improve the employability skills of local adults. We are therefore wanting to recruit an experienced volunteer coordinator with a track record of developing and delivering basic training.
The role will be 3 days per week until the end of March 2011.
Salary: £17,000 pro rata
Job purpose:
To recruit, train and coordinate volunteers through a structured work placement and training programme.
To arrange the placement of volunteers with the aim of improving their employability skills.
To develop and deliver in-house induction and training sessions for volunteers and coordinate external accredited training.
To provide Information, Advice and Guidance sessions to support volunteers during their time at EMERGE FareShare and to help them progress to further volunteering, training or employment.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
To develop and maintain links with local communities and organisations in order to recruit volunteers.
To develop and maintain links with local and regional training and accreditation providers.
To develop the skills of the volunteers and manage their performance. This will include:
- Providing basic training and ongoing support
- Organising specific external training
- Monitoring and performance management with monthly reviews and end of placement exit interviews
- Evaluating the success of internal and external training and adapt as necessary
- Assisting the REAL Skills Volunteer Coordinator and the FareShare Manager with positive ongoing communications
- Supporting the REAL Skills Volunteer Coordinator to place volunteers with further volunteering, training or employment
- Developing and maintaining good working relationships and referral pathways with other relevant organisations
Please email shaheen@emergemanchester.co.uk for an application pack.
Greetings,
I found out some amazing facts today regarding disposable nappies which, if I’m honest, really shocked me!
Did you know that 3 billion disposable nappies are used in Britain every year - that's 8 million nappies a day! And each of these takes between 200-500 years to dispose!
To reduce the amount of nappies going into landfill sites and offer a great alternative, Manchester City Council have launched a ‘free Real Nappy Trial.’ By doing this, they are hoping to encourage parents to stop using disposables- which can save them money and trees!
It’s a month long free trial offering parents 100% pure cotton, re-usable nappies, which they deliver to your doorstep each week AND collect the dirty ones!
After the free trial, the usual weekly cost is just £9.00 and your baby gets the luxurious comfort of REAL nappies, which are also chemical free
To find out more and download the request form, click here...
LL
Greetings,
Manchester Airport has unveiled their first sustainability report- revealing how it intends to become “carbon neutral by 2015.”
This has caused a backlash from green campaigners as these intentions fail to cover emissions from aircrafts jetting to and from the airport- which bosses say is the responsibility of the airlines.
Manchester Friends of the Earth said the report fails to point out that, taking into account aircraft movements; the airport produces ‘the same amount of CO2 as the whole of Uganda.’
However, the airport is confident that introducing energy efficient lighting, 125 recycling bins across the site and extending nearby wildlife area by 100 hectares, is enough to achieve their goal.
The report also reveals that the airport has become Britain’s first recycling ‘super zone,’ and details their commitments to sustainable growth and limiting its impact on the environment and its neighbours.
Although Manchester Airport have been criticised by green campaigners, they can only attempt to reduce carbon within their own sites and can’t take aircrafts out of the sky! To me it seems that they are trying their best to cut waste and reduce their energy consumption which, I personally think, is an encouraging step to a better environment.
Every change, no matter how small, is a positive one.
LL
Greetings,
Recently, I came across a great way to monitor and reduce food waste in the home! It’s called the ‘Food Diary Challenge!’ It’s a two week diary in which you record what food you buy, what you use and what you throw away! In this way you identify where you are wasting food and why this is…
For example, buy one get one free deals could be a problem: do you actually use all the food, or are you just tempted by the bargain?
Taking part and completing the Diary Challenge is a great way to spot where you can reduce the amount of food waste in your home, plus you can also find top tips on how to use your leftovers for other meal ideas…
Gemma Thompson, a Manchester resident, recorded this tip after completing the challenge… “If you have any stale bread, grate it and freeze it, as the crumbs can be used as breadcrumbs.” Alternatively, you can cut the bread into chunks and fry them up to use as croutons, easy!
Once you have completed the challenge, you can see where and how you can prevent food waste… You can also pick up some handy tips and lovely recipes so why not give it a try? Click the following link and start your 2 week Food Diary Challenge now!
Good Luck
LL.
After six weeks of consiously slimming their bins, the 13 schools registered from across Manchester have now come to the end of the Zero Waste competition. Here are a few facts and figures for you to digest:
Before the competition, the 13 schools were creating 4.95 tonnes of waste between them each week.
By the end of Zero Waste Week, this had been reduced to 4.09 tonnes per week. This equals a weekly CO2e saving of over two tonnes.
According to WRAP, the national average waste per pupil per year is 45kg in a primary school and 22kg in a secondary. This table show how much our schools managed to reduce their waste per pupil per year:
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Before |
After |
| In total |
46.36 |
38.41 |
| Manley Park Juniors |
22.67 |
21.22 |
| Varna Street Primary |
28.48 |
22.44 |
| Sacred Heart Primary |
38.87 |
23.53 |
| Chapel Street Primary |
41.03 |
28.53 |
| Irk Valley Primary |
29.03 |
29.03 |
| Holy Trinity Primary |
42.38 |
35.76 |
| Chorlton Park Primary |
50.56 |
35.97 |
| Webster Primary |
59.16 |
41.66 |
| St Edmunds Primary |
53.38 |
45.5 |
| St Kenitgern's Primary |
47.32 |
48.55 |
| Manchester Health Academy |
60.64 |
52.8 |
| Button Lane Primary |
57.32 |
54.14 |
| Manley Park Infants |
71.9 |
60.24 |
A really big thank you to all our sponsors (in photo from left: Bridgewater Hall, Corus, Viridor, Bike Right!, Challenge 4 Change, Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative, EMERGE 3Rs) who contributed such great prizes and congratulations to all the schools which together made such a difference. Keep it up!
'East' magazine have just posted up an interview with me about the learning garden project here at New Smithfield Market. There are some lovely pictures of the garden in glorious sunshine as well as lots of information on the project so far and plans for the future.
To read the full article (and to look at some great pictures) click here.
Ben
21st-27th June Recycle Week
Check out www.recyclenow.com/recycle_week/index.html for information about how to recycle electrical items, their focus for the week. A great source of information for Home and Staff Waste.
Calling all Zero Waste Week Schools to get involved with CABE's Green Day!
CABE (the Commission for Architechture and the Built Environment) runs an event called Green Day. It's an initiative that helps to make schools sustainable. It will inspire pupils and colleagues in your school to learn about climate change and how it relates to the buildings and spaces around them. If you go to their website, http://www.cabe.org.uk/education/green-day you can download a pack of information about how you can get involved.
We are what we do is supporting Green Day this year, and there are great resources on their webpage too.
Thursday 17th June is Team Green Britain Day. Check out the webpage to see what you can do to get involved.
Dear All,
We would like to thank everyone who came along to the Question Time event on food and sustainability yesterday. Also, many thanks to everyone who helped us spread the word about the event. We could not have done this without your help.
We hope you had a great evening and both the event and discussion lived up to your expectations.
We apologise again that only a small fraction of questions and topics submitted by the audience could be addressed by the panel, however we do hope you found the debate insightful.
We have had an amazing response to the event and have already received a lot of great feedback from both audience members and participating businesses. Just hours before the event, people kept calling us to put their names on the guest list and to submit further questions. It is great to see that there are so many people – both young and old, students and professionals – who are passionate about the environment and about leading a (more) sustainable lifestyle.
We hope to make this event an annual tradition, as we feel that certain issues, such as food and sustainability, do not get the attention they deserve from both the public and the media, and are often downplayed and labeled as short-term fads. Also, this type of event empowers students, professionals as well as people from the wider community to have their questions on a particular topic that are important to them answered by a panel of experts they may not have access to otherwise.
Also, if you attended this event and you wish to tell us about what you liked and what could be improved, please download our feedback form and email the completed form to Mareen.
All the best,
the EMERGE team!
Registered Schools' Waste League Table*:
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total waste/pupil/year |
| Manley Park Juniors |
22.67 |
| Varna Street Primary |
28.48 |
| Irk Valley |
29.03 |
| Sacred Heart Primary |
38.87 |
| Chapel St Primary |
41.03 |
| Holy Trinity |
42.38 |
| St Kentigen's |
47.32 |
| Chorlton Park Primary |
50.56 |
| Button Lane |
57.32 |
| Webster Primary |
59.16 |
| Manchester Health Academy |
60.64 |
| Manley Park Infants |
71.9 |
| St Edmunds |
96.89 |
According to WRAP, the average amount of waste for a primary school per pupil per year is 45kg and secondary schools 22kg. So there is work to be done!
*This is a rough measurement, but we think reasonably accurate, based on conversations with cleaners, caretakers and weighing bags of rubbish, taking photos of bins and taking into account the number of 1100 litre bins on site.
Schools signed up to the Zero Waste challenge can now down load lesson plans and assembly plans by clicking here.
You will find resources for your pupils for KS2 and KS3, and these could be adapted for a higher or lower age group, or used with an eco-group.
National Curriculum links are provided at the end of each lesson plan.
Contact Vicki or Birgitte on 0161 223 8200 or email realskills@emergemanchester.co.uk
For more information about Zero Waste Week, click here.
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This Friday (the 11th) there will be a work day at the EMERGE learning garden between 10 and 2. We are aiming to build four raised beds and fill them up ready for planting. Please wear suitable clothing, sturdy shoes and bring a packed lunch. For more information please email ben@emergemanchester.co.uk or call 0161 223 8200.
Saturday 29th May 11am - 2pm
The EMERGE local food works project will be hosting an open day at the learning garden at New Smithfield market on Saturday the 29th of May between 11am and 2pm. There will be food related films being screened, family friendly workshops to take part in and free, healthy nibbles to enjoy. This will also be a chance to find out more about our ideas for the local food works project, suggest ideas of your own and find out how you can get involved.
* Workshops will start at 11:30.
* Films will start at 12:00.
This event is open for everyone to attend and is free.
We hope to see you there!
For more information please contact:
Ben Lear
ben@emergemanchester.co.uk
0161 2238200
The polytunnel for the 'grow-your-own' garden is almost done!
Thanks to the helping hands of the volunteers who helped set up the tunnel in altogether three set-up sessions, the polytunnel is almost ready to stage its first workshops and welcome its first guests. Soon East Manchester residents will have the chance to cut their carbon footprint and to tackle climate change from the comfort of their own home or garden.
The only thing that's left to do is to add the doors, as they are still missing at the moment. Thanks to Original Organics, we've even got our own wormery now which will help us run the garden in a very environmentally-friendly way and which will provide high-quality soil for the plants.
The workshops are very likely to start in mid-May, but first there will be an amazing launch ceremony at the beginning of the month. In this context, Manchester residents are more than welcome to join us when we officially open the doors (which will hopefully be part of the polytunnel by then) of the East Manchester 'grow-your-own' garden. We're definitely looking forward to seeing you there and we'll let you know about the exact date and time soon!
Also, anyone who is interested in attending the workshops, please get in touch with Ben via email or call 0161 223 8200.
First of all, many thanks to everyone who volunteered their time on the weekend to help us set up the polytunnel for the learning garden!
The weather was absolutely brilliant and we managed to put up the entire metal frame on Saturday. However, we're still not quite done and we'd welcome all volunteers to support us on Friday this week (April 16th) in phase two of the learning garden set-up. So far, our polytunnel looks a little bare, as it has not got any doors or a polythene cover and therefore we need your help.
Sessions will take place from 10 to 4 and your help will be very much appreciated! For further information, please contact Ben (ben@emergemanchester.co.uk) or give us a call 0161 223 8200.
EMERGE Food will soon be launching the exciting new Learning Garden project. We need volunteers to help erect the polytunnel on New Smithfield Market on Sat 10th and Sun 11th April. Work sessions will be between 10 and 4. No experience necessary although if you do know how to put a polytunnel up we would especially appreciate your input. You must be physically fit in order to help out as the activity involves a lot of manual work. You will need to bring your lunch but we can provide refreshments. Please wear comfortable, warm clothing, waterproofs and steel toe caps if possible. We can provide gloves. For further information please contact ben@emergemanchester.co.uk or call 0161 223 8200.
The drivers at EMERGE 3Rs have recently acquired their NVQ Level 2 certification in Environmental Conservation and Community Recycling, which confirms what we knew all along: they are brilliant at their job and extraordinarily competent!
In a small ceremony that took place on Tuesday 9 February 2010, EMERGE Director Lucy Danger and Steph Jackson from EMS (Environmental Monitoring Services) handed out the certificates and congratulated the drivers. EMS had provided the training for our drivers, which allowed them to assess their abilities and gain new skills.
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Altogether, nine drivers were awarded with the NVQ certification during the ceremony, which was organised at the EMERGE location at New Smithfield Market. At present, a number of our team members are involved in training, for instance completing ILM courses, in order to learn new things and become experts in their fields. EMERGE actively encourages its staff and volunteers to keep on learning and updating their skills, enabling them to reach their full potential and allowing us to provide the best service possible to our customers. In the near future, we will also offer in-house training for our volunteers and members of staff who wish to learn enhance their knowledge and abilities. NVQs, or National Vocational Qualifications, are work-based awards that can be obtained in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Candidates who wish to acquire their NVQ qualification need to complete the programme, which offers a mix of training and assessments. The drivers at EMERGE started training for the NVQ in Environmental Conservation and Community Recycling at the end of last year. The Environmental Conservation is most suitable for people working in, and respectively seeking to gain, employment in conservation and similar voluntary sectors. The Community Recycling scheme mainly focuses on skills needed in the area of recycling and waste management.
EMERGE is a selling a 7.5t Renault Midlum purpose-built recycling truck - with front and back sections, as well as 6 stillages. For Sale or Rent (at £747pm).
• Bought new in April 2007 for £38,000
• 32,000 km on the clock
• Full service history
• MOT runs until June 2010
Contact Sebastien on 0161 2238200 or operations@emergemanchester.co.uk
Welcome to our new website! This is only part of our online presence - you can also find us on twitter - twitter.com/emergerecycling and our Chief Exec has a blog all about recycling, which can be found at: recycling-3rs.blogspot.com/ and we also have a facebook page, which can be viewed by clicking here if you have a facebook account. Also, if you just want to send us a query via the website, you can fill in the contact form here. So, there are lots of ways to contact us, and we would really love to hear from you!
In light of Christmas cheer, some of Manchester’s largest companies have donated staff to make sure none went without a good meal on Christmas day.
On 22 December, FareShare North-West welcomed volunteers from Cargill’s, Sodexho, Kellogg’s and JD Williams into its depot to help sort a staggering 30 tonnes of food destined for the plates of those most in need over the festive period.
The food was donated through the Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal, in conjunction with the National Farmers’ Union. Once sorted, it was distributed free of charge to nominated charities and other groups and cooked to provide warm meals for the homeless and those in poverty across the region.
FareShare North-West currently supplies 43 groups in Manchester. These, in turn, help an average of 1,300 clients every day – from the unemployed and those on low incomes, to school breakfast clubs and people facing homelessness or problems with addiction. With over six million people in the UK struggling on low incomes and charities fighting to maintain high levels of service while fulfilling ever-greater demands, a free supply of food can be a lifeline for organisations and the individuals they serve.
Angela Shannon, Support Worker at the Cornerstone Day Centre in Moss Side, which provides food for up to 150 clients every day, said: “Many of these people would face malnutrition if they were unable to secure food from Cornerstone on a daily basis. FareShare’s unfailing support has proved vital to our purpose in the past and will almost certainly prove vital to our continued work in the future.”
A third of all waste produced in the UK comes from the food sector. Nationally, FareShare has agreements with most of the major supermarkets, including Asda, M&S, Sainsbury and manufacturers such as Pataks and Nestle. However, demand frequently outstrips supply, and Fareshare North-West actively seeks new partnerships to bolster its supplies.
Project Manager Paul Beswick said: “Since we began operations in August 2008, we’ve redistributed over 200 tonnes of fit for purpose food from the food industry, but earlier in the year our stock levels were at rock bottom. If any food manufacturers or retailers out there would like to talk about working in partnership, we can guarantee that their surplus food will be put to good use!”
Aside from the corporate volunteers assisting on 22 December, the scheme has provided work experience and training opportunities for 38 volunteers, many of whom lack formal qualifications or have experienced long term unemployment. It also runs public cookery demonstrations around East Manchester to promote healthy eating and living.
Editor’s notes:
- FareShare North West is run by EMERGE Food, a new initiative of the East Manchester-based sustainable waste management social enterprise EMERGE 3Rs. EMERGE secured the franchise to establish a FareShare distribution hub in early 2008 and began operations in August 2008.
- FareShare is the national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and related life-skills training to a network of 450 community organisations working with disadvantaged people across the UK
- FareShare’s National Impact Survey showed that nearly a fifth (17%) of clients surveyed had gone up to a week without a meal, while 33% who rely on projects for their main meal often have nowhere else to eat.
For more information, or for high resolution images, please contact:
Paul Beswick
Project Development Manager
FareShare North West
0161 223 8200
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