FRP’s vision is of a world in which everyone is able to live sustainably through being knowledgeable and enthusiastic about caring for the environment.
Our mission is to promote low-cost, sustainable living through reusing and recycling goods and possessions. Our activities and services help people find practical, accessible, inclusive, and realistic ways of pursuing this goal, thereby encouraging self-sufficiency and minimising waste.
Our beneficiaries fall into three broad categories:
• People on low incomes who use our services in order to help meet everyday living needs
• Volunteers who, in helping us to deliver our services, benefit through the work experience they gain - from the perspective of their future employability as well as in terms of their overall well-being and self-perception
• The wider community who support FRP’s reuse and recycling goals, and/or discover those goals and increase their knowledge and understanding about reuse and recycling through engaging with us
FRP delivers the following activities:
• The Paint Place – one mof the largest members of the Community Repaint network of paint recycling enterprises. Over 70,000 litres of paint were collected during the 2014-15 business year, with more than 40,000 litres distributed through retail sales and giveaways
• Green Office – a service offering collection and disposal of waste paper (including confidential waste), and selling of recycled paper
• Reclaimed scaffold boards – collection and direct sale of reclaimed scaffold boards to members of the public, and small-scale manufacture and resale of furniture using reclaimed wood products
• Community engagement, activity, including 'Give or Take' events encouraging re-use at a hyper-local level, and partnership projects such as pop-up 'freeshops'
Volunteers are a core element of FRP's business, and we engage more than 80 each year, many of whom directly benefit from their involvement with FRP by gaining employment, starting micro-enterprises, and other gains in overall well-being.
