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

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

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

A Recycling Lives’ resident who was a “model” trainee has progressed into full-time work with a new employer partner. Fleet…

Food-focussed charities across Lancashire will be able to feed, support and train more people this year thanks to donations of…

A business donation totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds is ensuring we can deliver millions of meals to communities across…

A record number of community groups were supported by our food redistribution team in 2024. Across Lancashire and Cumbria, 150…

Volunteers who have jointly given 39 years of their time to our Food Redistribution Centre have been celebrated with long…

Sky News has highlighted our work as part of a broadcast on changes to the way women offenders are dealt…

Supper’s Up served up a hot meal with extra warmth to mark World Kindness Day on November 13th. Our weekly…

Our Food Redistribution Centre is always looking for new volunteers to join its team. The Preston-based centre has hugely increased…

Two royal representatives have visited Recycling Lives Charity this week. The High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire each took…

Lizzie is our newest Key Worker, supporting men working in Recycling Lives or prison-led workshops in HMPs Hatfield, Humber and…

A growing business is already planning to extend its ex-offender employment programme. JN Civils has partnered with our rehabilitation programmes…

Our funding partnership delivering donations and even more meals to groups across Cumbria has been extended for a second year….

£24.2m – that’s the value we create at Recycling Lives Charity. We’re proud to share this record figure in our…

Dozens more men set to be supported by Recycling Lives Charity’s rehabilitation work We have expanded our prisons programme, opening…

They say the most valuable thing you can give is your time – which is certainly true for our volunteer…

January 2024 “We acknowledge the recent difficulties encountered by aspects of Recycling Lives Ltd’s operations, and our sympathies go out…

Our chief executive, Alasdair Jackson, has been honoured with an OBE in the 2024 New Year Honours list Mr Jackson…

A donation to our work will help charitable groups across Cumbria to deliver more food to communities in need. The…

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

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

Training and skills are being boosted for our participants as an accredited instructor has joined our team. Keith Black is…

Long-running champions for our Charity have extended and expanded their support for our work. Jewson Partnership Solutions (JPS) have committed…

A celebrity supporter is helping our food redistribution work by appearing in a series of promotional films. Comedian Jon Richardson…

We need more stock. Demand for our food redistribution work has soared in recent weeks, as more and more people…

Social enterprise leaders have named our work as being amongst the best in Lancashire. Selnet (Social Enterprise Lancashire Network) handed…

New figures show the scale of the cost-of-living crisis on the communities our food redistribution work supports. Rising food and…

Our food redistribution work is on the road to more growth thanks to the addition of a new asset –…

Our new Training Kitchen is now up and running. The Kitchen will be delivering eight-week cookery courses, teaching people kitchen…

Katrina is our Deputy Residential Manager, working alongside Neil to support men completing the Six Stage Programme. As well as…

Work is underway to add an accredited training kitchen to our community café. Funding from FareShare UK is allowing us…

Dozens more offenders are being supported by our rehabilitation programme thanks to support from The National Lottery Fund. We are…

March made for a record month at our Food Redistribution Centre, with more than a quarter of a million meals…

UPDATE, 2022: Laura is now manager of the Food Redistribution Centre Laura is our new CFM Coordinator – responsible for…

Financial and employment support from a partner business is helping our work to reduce reoffending and tackle homelessness. PPS Equipment…

An independent evaluation has found that for every £1 invested in our programmes, we create £8.44 value. The figure has…

A sponsor partnership for our rehabilitation work has been extended after a successful first year. VINCI Facilities and Building Solutions…

A bike recycle scheme is helping our work to ‘recycle’ lives. Cycles Recycled CIC have donated bikes to participants of…

A charitable donation is supporting our residential programme as it tackles homelessness and unemployment. The contribution from insurance brokers David…

Our work recycling waste electricals and preventing surplus food from going to waste has been recognised with a regional award….

Gaining skills and securing work has been made easier for our residents thanks to a generous donation. Donaldson Timber Engineering…

Paul, one of our HMP Academy Managers, explains his role – overseeing operations and delivering personalised support for men in…

We’re buzzing after developing a very different new partnership – making a £7,000 donation to The Bee Centre. We’ve sponsored…

Faye, our Specialist Support Coordinator, reflects on her role and the range of support that helps people to better manage…

Our work has been shared with communities across the country in two primetime TV slots. Our impact in tackling reoffending,…

The Queen has given her royal seal of approval to our work, praising efforts to help communities throughout the pandemic….

Jamie Boulton, our new CFM Coordinator, reflects on the successes, challenges and lessons of his first three months in post:…

Skill, commitment and good fun – these are the key ingredients our volunteers bring to the Food Redistribution Centre. This…

Ben Moloney, one of our Housing & Employability Coordinators, explains his role – building trust, rewiring brains, and earning his…

A new team member is ensuring we deliver the very best, and most appropriate, care to our participants. The new…

One of our generous team members is set to cycle the length of Lancashire to raise funds for our charity…

A digital donation is helping the men and women we support to secure jobs and stay connected. Cadent Foundation has…

A national donation has allowed us to almost double the amount of chilled and frozen goods taken into our Food…

Diversification and dedication. These have been critical for continuing to create opportunities for ex-offenders throughout the pandemic and lockdowns: Job…

Staying home has become much more appealing for our residents. The men living in our residential facility have a high…

Surviving lockdown was a matter of ‘make and break’ for our rehabilitation and recycling programme. When prisons were forced to…

Our busiest ever year in the Food Redistribution Centre has been made more manageable thanks to a generation cash donation….

Our head of rehabilitation has been praised as “outstanding”. Barry Flanagan was named Outstanding Individual at the Criminal Justice Alliance’s…