Member E-news 11th January 2012

In This Issue

Happy New Year

Free Training Events

2012 Local Election Alert

Credit Union News

ReBOOT

Pastic Baler For Sale

ZWS Waste Prevention Fund

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Happy New Year

We hope everyone had a peaceful break despite the storms and it’s back to work now with thoughts turning to the year ahead: 2012 will see Scottish Local Council Elections, the London Olympics, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, US Presidential Elections, continued global economic uncertainties, more unpredictable weather events, and apparently the end of the world on December 21st 2012 if you believe some doomsayers!

The CRNS is certainly expecting a busy year ahead and will continue to work with its membership and the wider 3rd Sector to lobby for a strong and vibrant reuse and resource sector here in Scotland. We look forward to working with you.

Free Training Events

Register Your Interest Now For These Free 2012 Training Events

Health & Safety, Your Organisation & You

This half-day workshop will be of value to all recycling and reuse organisations who take their H&S responsibilities seriously. It is designed to be a refresher workshop for those with H&S duties (staff or Board) and will specifically cover the issues relevant to your reuse and recycling activities.

Whether you are new to H&S issues and are keen to learn or you are knowledgeable but are interested in a refresher session then this free workshop will be worth attending.

‘Health & Safety, Your Organisation & You’ will be running on the following dates:

Mon 23rd Jan (AM)     Dundee


Mon 30th Jan (AM)     Edinburgh


Tues Feb 7th  (AM)     Glasgow


Tues Feb 14th (AM)    Inverness

Understanding The Carbon Agenda

Community reuse & recycling organisations in Scotland make a valuable contribution towards waste diversion and carbon reduction targets. This half-day workshop will look at ways of measuring the environmental impact of your reuse and recycling activities using the ‘Carbon Metric’ . If you have always wanted to measure your organisation’s carbon impact and understand why it is becoming increasingly important to do so then this workshop is for you.

‘Understanding the Carbon Agenda’ will be running on the following dates:


Mon 30th Jan (PM)      Edinburgh


Tues Feb 7th   (PM)     Glasgow


Tues Feb 14th (PM)     Inverness

For more details on these two free training events and a booking form please contact Matt Lewis in the CRNS office: matt@crns.org.uk

(Places are limited to 2 per organisation)

2012 Local Election Alert

Membership Views Sought

Scottish Local Elections are scheduled for the 3rd May 2012 and, as a member of CRNS you represent significant community interests.  CRNS will be drafting a manifesto to send to all candidates to tell them what our members offer to local authorities and communities.  

Amanda Cornish will be putting out a more formal request for feed-back, but in the meantime should there be any policy issues you would like CRNS to include in its manifesto – please let Amanda know.

Amanda Cornish, CRNS Development Manager: amanda@crns.org.uk

Credit Union News

New Law for Credit Unions

Changes to the Credit Unions Act have come into force that will allow Credit unions to change their rules to allow them to provide services to new groups and develop new services and partnerships. Credit unions are now free to extend their reach and work with organisations such as housing providers, employers and charities to bring financial services to new groups of people. 

Credit unions will also be able to choose to provide services to community groups, social enterprises and businesses, helping organisations that need financial services and attracting investment into communities.

For more information check out this article.

ReBOOT

IT Recycling Project Activity

Highland communities and deserving children are to receive a belated Christmas present thanks to an innovative £300,000 project to recycle old computers. ReBOOT, the Forres based social enterprise is working with Fujitsu and Highland Council to repair and redistribute over 3500 computers to good causes.

More info can be found in this news article.

Plastics Baler For Sale

Tender Opportunity for Dell Plastics Baler

Wilson Auctions of Dalry have been instructed by Stirling Council to sell by Tender their fully functioning Dell SC 20 Plastics Baler. The closing date for the receipt of Tenders is the 26th January and viewing of the baler is available from the 16th to the 18th January at Wilsons Auctions.

For more details go to the Wilsons Auctions website.   Or contact Robert Chambers at robertchambers@wilsonsauctions.com

ZWS Waste Prevention Fund (NFP001)

31st January 2012 Closing Date for Applications

This fund is a Scotland-wide call for innovative projects of all types that have the potential to significantly reduce primary resource use, reduce waste or transform end-of-life recovery for products in the market place, and demonstrate clear benefit to the Scottish economy.

For more information go to the ZWS funding website.

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