Newcastle Wood Recycling was launched in September 2014 to contribute to a more sustainable environment and to make a positive social impact on local community development by offering volunteering, training and employment opportunities to marginalised individuals and groups in the community.
NWR aims to provide work experience for people who may struggle to get placed elsewhere. Our volunteering opportunities are targeted at some of the most marginalized groups in society and our aims are to provide people from with the opportunity to gain a range of useful transferable skills through experience and training in a supportive but disciplined environment.
Our core aims are to:
We aim to divert as much wood as possible from the waste stream in the North East and in doing so, to create jobs, training and volunteering opportunities to people in the local community.
We offer a waste wood collection service – a great alternative to a skip. Wood collected is reused or recycled in the most environmentally friendly way, and sold on for DIY material, as unique furniture and garden products or as firewood. This work is very labour intensive which creates opportunities for local people to get involved in a variety of tasks. For example, going out on collections, processing and preparing timber for resale, making wooden products or helping with admin and marketing.
