Supporting Homeless Rehabilitating Offenders Rebuilding Lives

Together we’re
Recycling Lives

Changing lives through offender rehabilitation, residential support and food redistribution

  • 2022 Year in Review

    2022 Year in Review

    Read about new additions to our work and the achievements of our programme participants from the last year.

    Year In Review
  • Hiring - join Recycling Lives Charity's team

    Join our team - We're hiring

    We have vacancies to join our food redistribution team.

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  • Together we’re changing lives

    Together we’re changing lives

    We’re rehabilitating offenders - to reduce reoffending, reunite families and improve employment rates

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  • Together we’re changing lives

    Together we’re changing lives

    We’re supporting men facing homelessness - to reduce welfare dependency and develop independence

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  • Together we’re changing lives

    Together we’re changing lives

    We’re providing food to schools and charities - to support communities and tackle food poverty

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Recycling Lives works
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Partnerships

Working with partners across all sectors we help prisons, businesses and charities to create lasting change:

  • Working with communities to reduce crime, homelessness and poverty
  • Partnering with prisons to reduce reoffending by supporting offenders
  • Working with businesses to demonstrate their values through recruitment
  • Supporting charities to reduce running costs by providing quality food
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Rebuilding lives
  • “The structure Recycling Lives has in place, coaching and mentoring offenders, is invaluable.”
    Governor, HMP Dovegate
  • “I’ve never had people looking out for me in the way Recycling Lives does.”
    Chris, ex-offender
  • “The food from Recycling Lives has helped to reduce costs meaning money can be directed into patient care.”
    Manager, Pendleside Hospice
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Our Values

  • Person-centred

    We always put the best interests of the people and communities we support first

  • Collaborative

    We form trusted partnerships across all sectors to deliver on our aims

  • Sustainable

    We deliver financially-sound programmes that create lasting change

  • Proactive

    We are entrepreneurial, fast-paced and responsive to change

Demonstrating value

We create savings for communities and the taxpayer worth millions every year

  • Savings in the criminal justice system for central
    government by rehabilitating offenders
  • Savings on welfare payments for local government by
    supporting men experiencing homelessness
  • Savings on food and running costs for communities and
    charities by redistributing food
Read our latest Impact Report here

Latest news

Update: Prison workshop numbers

Since opening our first HMP Academy in 2012, we’ve worked hard to grow our programme and impact, working in prisons…

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We’re hiring: vacancies, March 2023

We have two exciting vacancies to join our Food Redistribution team:   Vacancy: Driver/Warehouse Operative (full-time). Team: Food Redistribution. Location: Preston, Lancashire. This opportunity…

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BBC Breakfast film from Recycling Lives Charity

A team from BBC Breakfast spent the morning filming from our community cafe and workshop, to talk about the effects…

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