The Coastal Recycling Community Fund provides support for local projects that create a positive impact on the local community either in terms of amenities, heritage or environment. Recently £6,000 was awarded to the Tarka Valley Railway to support the work they are doing to extend the railway line from Torrington towards Bideford, with the ultimate […]
BMX is a sport where fractions of seconds count and the most important part of a race lap is the start, get a good one and it sets you up for a great lap. Bideford BMX clubs old gate was not the best, it was slow and antiquated and riders had to adapt their skill […]
In a recent round of funding the Coastal Recycling Community Fund awarded £24,974 to help transform a derelict space in Westward Ho! in to a play area for the local community. The piece of land used to be a play area but sadly as equipment broke it was removed seeing the space slowly become vacant […]
Exeter Chiefs Players Olly Woodburn and Tom Lawday get hands on to help clear shoreline of plastic. Till the Coast is Clear is a Social Enterprise working with businesses such as Coastal Recycling. Its focus is to clear the hard to reach places along our coastlines of plastic and rubbish that otherwise would go un-seen […]
In our latest round of Coastal Community Fund project catch ups we spoke with Roborough Village Hall who received £7,022 towards new audio-visual equipment. Roborough Village Hall is an important hub for this rural villages community who have no public transport and whose nearest major town is over 15 miles away. Several projects have already […]
Ten highly deserving organisations in Devon are celebrating being awarded grants through the Coastal Recycling Community Fund. The successful groups from this round of funding are: Calf Street Park Action Group – Transforming Great Torrington’s main park Tarka Valley Railway C.I.O – Phase 1 track widening 1st Torrington Scout Group – Replacement heating, lighting, windows […]
Devon-based Harrier LLC drives forward environmental performance with Coastal Recycling Harrier LLC, the UK’s leading digital print, photo print and gift products provider, is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its business and has achieved high reduction, reuse and recycling rates since reviewing its environmental policy in 2011. The Devon-based company is a major digital […]
We always like to catch up and hear how money rewarded from the Coastal Community Fund has helped make projects in to a reality. Recently we got to catch up with Exwick Tennis Club and hear how the money from the Community Fund has helped them bring lighting and fencing up to scratch. Exwick Tennis […]
Last week we caught up with Benny Myers one of the Coastal Recycling drivers to find out what a ‘normal’ day looks like and what makes the job. So Benny how long have you been working for Coastal Recycling? I’ve actually been here nearly 6 years, I started working in the yard at Kenbury Wood […]
Recently we caught up with Pat Grimwood-Taylor from St Giles Church to find out how the award of £17,400 from the Coastal Community Fund has been put to use. St Giles Church is situated in a small rural village and the church itself has received band aid maintenance for the last 100 years. With no […]
