No. 4 September 1998
For the attention of:
Good Ideas Spread Fast!
Modeled on our own wood recycling scheme, the London Woodbank has now been born in Greenwich. Set up by carpenter Debbie Evershed after she read about us in the Evening Argus and spent the day at our site at Stanmer, the London Woodbank is, like us, a not-for-profit venture, committed to finding a use for the massive amount of timber currently wasted in the London area.
Based on part of a 89-acre farm owned by the Woodland
Farm Trust, in Shooters Hill south east London, the London Woodbank has
already saved several tonnes of wood by taking delivery of some enormous
wooden theatre sets discarded by West End theatres at the end of runs.
Until now these sets have been landfilled. We intend to work closely together
and aim to set up some sort of federation of wood recyclers to pool information
and offer advice on setting up further schemes.
| The
Happy Band
Many thanks to our growing team of volunteers, particularly Andrew, Alex, Ali, Doug, Matthew, Ben, Travis, David, Richard, Jeff, Julie, Chris, Simon??. and Ann who managed to get us some great office furniture. Pallets We are currently trying to find a more environmentally sustainable use for 100s of broken pallets from Brighton?s municipal market. The pallets - previously landfilled - are now being turned into picket fences, raised beds for allotments, and also cut up into firewood and kindling for use on winter fires. What we?re about · The Brighton and Hove Wood Recycling Project has been set up to reclaim and re-use some of the 1000?s of tonnes of timber currently land-filled in the Brighton & Hove area every year. · We aim to create a financially self - supporting voluntary body that is of genuine environmental and social benefit to the local community. Any "profit" we make will be given in grants and loans to other local environmental projects. |
Our
first grant!
A big Thank You to BriHCEP who have given us £180 to buy a jig-saw - invaluable in preparing our customers? requirements. A series of grant applications is now planned to help us expand. Schools Several schools in the Brighton and Hove area will be buying wood from us next term for their CDT (woodwork!) classes, saving schools money, saving resources and giving kids an insight into recycling. Many Thanks to Skil Skil - the inventor of the circular saw - (now part of Bosch) have kindly donated a circular saw, which has already proved its worth by helping to rip through 800 old pallets (see opposite) that were being dumped. Wood recycling: our vision We have produced a four-page report on our activities to date and our vision of how the project will develop in the next two to five years. For your free copy (but donations gratefully received!), call the office. |