What We Do
Recycling Lives provides an opportunity for deprived people in our society to seek an alternative future.
We give them the opportunity to make positive changes for themselves.

Recycling Lives provides an opportunity for deprived people in our society to seek an alternative future.
We give them the opportunity to make positive changes for themselves.
Our Residents are people who have been through difficult times and are ready to make a change for the better. Residents might be ex-armed forces personnel, formerly homeless or unemployed people or ex-offenders. We believe that everyone deserves a second chance, and we don’t discriminate as long as Residents are ready and willing to take the support we offer them and work their way back to independent living. By offering …
The Recycling Lives social welfare charity is pleased to have as its patron the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, Lord Charles Shuttleworth.

Training and education is a fundamental part of the journey of Recycling Lives Residents, in order to provide opportunities for real jobs in the future...

Recycling Lives and our Partners give Residents the opportunity to gain essential work place experience with voluntary, vocational work placements...

Our ambition for all of our Residents is that they become financially independent and have a home of their own.

The commitment and enthusiasm of our Residents is a fundamental part of ensuring that the Recycling Lives Charity remains sustainable...

Recycling Lives take part in community events that contribute to the local area, raise money for the charity and build our profile within the community...

Many of our Residents have been alienated by their community and, in some cases, even by their own families. It is not uncommon to discover that the first real community they have experienced is their friends and colleagues at the Recycling Lives Centre.