Supporting Homeless Rehabilitating Offenders Rebuilding Lives

Together we’re
Recycling Lives

Changing lives through offender rehabilitation, residential support and food redistribution

  • Meet our new Chief Executive

    We have welcomed a new Chief Executive to our team. Victoria Blakeman is now leading our programmes as we work to increase our impact locally and nationally.

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  • Join our team - view our latest vacancies

    We have three vacancies available, to join the operational teams responsible for our food redistribution and offender rehabilitation programmes.

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  • Support our work

    Support our work

    Help us to change lives - donate to our work or find out how to partner with our rehabilitation and food redistribution programmes

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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
Recycling Lives works

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
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
Read Our Case Studies

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

New Chief Executive joins Recycling Lives Charity

Recycling Lives Charity & Social Enterprise has welcomed a new Chief Executive to its team. Victoria Blakeman will lead our…

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We’re hiring – latest vacancies (Summer 2025)

We have three exciting vacancies to join our team:   Role: Food Redistribution Warehouse Operative (part-time). Location: Preston, Lancashire. We’re…

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Supper’s Up soup kitchen celebrates 1 year and 15,000 meals served

Supper’s Up has marked its first year of serving ‘dinner, community and opportunity’ in central Preston Our newest support programme…

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