More Than Furniture 08

CRNS 5th Annual Furniture Reuse Conference
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Opera School, RSAMD, Glasgow

Programme

Sophy Copland, Chief Executive of Instant Neighbour Aberdeen, will chair this year's conference which will provide a range of strong speakers from within Scotland and around the the world who will challenge, inform and inspire projects to become Bigger, Better, Bolder.

Keynote Speaker

Eric Lombardi, Executive Director, Eco-cycle
Resource Recovery Parks and Zero Waste

Eric is the Executive Director of Eco-cycle in Bolder, Colorado and Chair of the Grassroots Recycling Network. Eco-cycle is the largest community recycling organisation in the USA. Some of the topics Eric will cover include:

  • Activities of the Centre for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM)
  • Business Recycling Collections
  • What we can learn from the US model
  • Zero Waste

09.00 - 10.00 Registration
Arrival, registration and refreshments

10.00 - 10.15 WELCOME AND SETTING THE SCENE
Sophy Copland, Conference Chair & Chief Executive, Instant Neighbour

10.15 - 10.55 SESSION 1 - BIGGER
Managing Growth - James Dunbar, Chief Executive, Highland New Start

CRNS Support for the Sector - Linsay Chalmers, Development Officer, CRNS

11.00 - 11.35 GOOD PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Topics for discussion include Island and rural reuse, maximising efficiency in your organisation, INCREASE, marketing, managing trainees and CA site reuse. Round 1 workshops

11.35 - 12.00 Refreshments and Networking

12.00 - 12.40 SESSION 2 - BETTER
Resource Recovery Parks & Zero Waste - Eric Lombardi, Executive Director, Eco-cycle (USA) 

12.40 - 13.15 GOOD PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Topics for discussion include Island and rural reuse, maximising efficiency in your organisation, INCREASE, marketing, managing trainees and CA site reuse. Round 2 workshops

13.15 - 14.15 Lunch and Networking

14.15 - 14.55 CASE STUDIES - SUPPORTING PEOPLE
Emma Galloway, Enterprise & Development Manager, Bethany Christain Trust
Pat Clark, Factory Manager, Maxie Richards Foundation
Silv Ingram, Development Manager, Castle Furniture Project

14.55 - 15.15 SESSION 3 - BOLDER
Marketing and the Sector - Anna Beswick, Assistant Campaigns Manager, SWAG

15.15 - 15.50 GOOD PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Topics for discussion include Island and rural reuse, maximising efficiency in your organisation, INCREASE, marketing, managing trainees and CA site reuse. Round 3 workshops

15.50 - 16.00 Summary and close