Recycling Lives Charity
Rehabilitating offenders
Recycling Lives Services secures WEEE from local authorities and other sources which Recycling Lives Charity coordinates the recycling of in HMP Prison Academies around the UK. These academies pay prisoners a decent wage, engage them in meaningful work and support them to develop skills, confidence and resilience.
Our charity partnership also helps us run our ROTL (Release on Temporary License) programme where offenders reaching the end of their sentence can work in our recycling operations. This again provides meaningful work, skills and is a critical step to securing full time employment on release.
All our services to offenders are backed up by wrap around support delivered by the charity which helps with mental health problems, maintaining abstinence and working with social services to help with reintegration into society.
Together this work reduces reoffending to typically below 5% for these programmes (compared to national average of 50%+ within 1 year of release). This saves the taxpayer a significant sum but more vitally changes lives for the better.
Reducing homelessness
Our main head-office building co-houses a residential block which is run by Recycling Lives Charity. This unit houses, mentors and trains men experiencing homelessness by delivering a proven support programme.
It has an excellent track-record of helping its residents into independent living with a full-time job often within Recycling Lives businesses or other employers.
Tackling Food Poverty
We support Recycling Live Charity’s partnership with FareShare which helps feed communities across Lancashire and Cumbria. This helps reduce food waste and divert it to those in vulnerable communities.
This initiative delivers over 3 million meals every year, helping hundreds of charitable groups feed up to 20,000 people every week.