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Thurrock Mayor Charlie Curtis launched the start of sales of our new Bike recycling Scheme on Friday 29th September, David Lawrence TRUP Manager said its was great that the Mayor found time to come down and launch this for us. I am very pleased that at long last we have got this new scheme up and running. It is estimated that there are 13 million bikes sitting in sheds and garages, 2G Ride Recycle is  asking everyone to bring unwanted bikes down to us at our base in East Tilbury, please check yours and see if you have an

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  Great news - we are launching the sale of cycles on Thursday 29th September when the Mayor of Thurrock Councillor Curtis will officially ride off on our first bike for sale. Dave Lawrence, Operations Manager for TRUP, said it been great to get the cycles in, our volunteer bike mechanics have done a great job getting over 20 ready for sale. We can’t wait now to see the first lot of bikes going through to people who will get some pleasure out of them.      Along with this we have started our publicity campaign “We can’t all ride in the Tour de

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  We are pleased to launch 2G Ride Recycle which will provide low cost cycling for the Thurrock area. David Lawrence TRUP Manger said   “We will use the same principles that underpin our existing work using donated unwanted items as the raw material in this case bikes and refurbish and sell them at low cost back into the community, and use these activities for training and volunteering.”   “We are pleased to be partnering with Sustrans Thurrock who have agreed to provide training and some tools which has enabled us to launch this new scheme, we are

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     Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon became patron of the The Re-Use Partnership this month   She said when visiting the local charity on Monday 17th January  2011how please she was to have been asked and how important is was to the Thurrock and surrounding community that we were here.     Tony Benson TRUPs chairman said we were delighted when Baroness Smith agreed to become patron and how rewarding it was to be reorganised as doing such great work for the communityRead more >>

  Both Ben and Donavan and the team from Princess Trust Newham say a big thank you for Comunity Repaint Thurrock allowing them paint to complete thier latest project Read more >>

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark, which identifies us as trading for social and environmental purposes. The Social Enterprise Mark is the brand for social enterprises and was launched 1st February, 2010. The Mark identifies businesses which meet defined criteria for social enterprise, and consumers will recognise that businesses displaying the Mark are trading to benefit people and planet. We join other ethical businesses that have been recognised by being awarded the Mark such as the Eden Project, Hill Holt Wood, Bristol Wood Recycling Project

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Fed up with the intermittent and speed of BTs Broadband Service, we have decided to take action. We have one chance to do something about this.  In the next five years BT is rolling out superfast fibre optic broadband across the UK. The Tilbury exchange is not on the announced roll out plan, but the “The Race to Infinity” competition” will give us the opportunity to fast track our area to the front of the queue. The five areas with the largest percentage of votes by December 31st 2010 will win the chance to bring superfast broadband to their area. BT will also

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RePainting Our Communities 2009 In 2009 the Community RePaint network collected 313235 litres of paint and redistributed 209493 litres to nearly 14,000 beneficiaries, including community groups, schools, youth groups and families and individuals in social need. What’s more; by preventing this paint from going to landfill our 63 schemes have saved 545 tonnes of CO2, which is equivalent to taking 185 cars off our roads. This was made possible thanks to the hard work and commitment of over 150 staff and 360 volunteers, along with 171 training placements. Thank you for your support!Read more >>

Mick More, Assistant Scout Leader Of Tilbury Sea Scouts. Tilbury Sea Scouts would like to say  a big thank you, for the kind donation of kitchen units and appaliances that you kindly donated to our group. Tilbury Sea Scouts currently have over 70 Children involved within the group between the ages of 6 to 14, that will enjoy the use of these items. Again thank you very muc h, this donation is greatly appreciated by us all.  Mick Moore    Read more >>