Our Concept

Supporting, Inspiring, Employing

The Recycling Lives POD

Each Recycling Lives (RL) centre is equipped with a range of facilities to be used by a wide variety of activities. Each benefits from space for residential accommodation; office accommodation: retail and space for industrial operations and training.

Recycling collections and reducing landfill

Recycling Lives will offer opportunities to its residents to develop new skills and undertake work experience in the challenging arena of waste and recycling, uniquely meeting two needs, the reduction of waste and the development of employment and employability.

Encouraging entrepreneurs: in Preston

The smallest and most deprived wards have a lower proportion of micro-businesses and a higher proportion of small, medium and large businesses. Self-employment without full-time employees averages half in Preston’s deprived wards than elsewhere. When compared with the national, regional and city-based self-employment rates, these wards have real difficulties in promoting and sustaining entrepreneurship within their communities. The national average for self-employment is 8.32%, regionally it is 7.10%, and in Preston as a whole it is 6.12%. In St Georges however it falls to 3.55%, Deepdale 3.96%, Town Centre 4.65%.

Stimulating the economy

The first Recycling Lives is in Preston, our home city. Our concept is multi-tasked to respond to several needs, homelessness, deprivation, entrepreneurship and waste management. Each Local Authority area is different, each Local Authority Ward is different. Recycling Lives responds to local needs and local circumstances.

Serving the homeless

“I also want to see hostels as places of change, offering more than temporary accommodation. We need to end the 'revolving door' of homelessness and help people use time spent in hostels for training and acquiring new skills.”

Rt Hon Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State, 14 November 2006