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 >>

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 >>

Social enterprises find local solutions to national problems The services provided by social enterprises – business trading with a social purpose – offer cost-effective and sustainable solutions to national problems. Showing how they do this in the East of England is the focus for a year-long campaign launched by Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) at the Voice10 social enterprise conference in Cardiff on 1st February.  With an upcoming general election, and forced cuts in public spending, politicians across the political spectrum are advocating social enterprise as a

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 So what’s blogging and twittering all about  Im new to this so if I get things wrong or make a gaff, then im sorry and I guess someone will let me know.  Why now, that’s a question I was asked by one of the volunteers the other day when I explained what I was doing, the answer is I went to a meeting in the Old Post Office in Grays the other Thursday and meet some inspirational people, Sarah Arrow and Richard Snell who regally Blogged and Twittered.  Now I had come across these words before, but never thought it was for me, “did i really need to tell the

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 Volunteering, what do I get out of it?  Most people will have volunteered at some stage in their lives whether its being neighbourly and taking in the odd package, (like family that live next to me in Grays do almost every week), taking friends kids to school, walking a dog for someone you know (any offers to walk mine will be gratefully accepted), or being more involved with a cause that is close to your heart.  Some people have busy family lives especially when kids are young and find it hard to give time, but later in life as children grow, or when retirement comes

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Angela is pictured with Dave Lawrence at The Re-Use Partnership (TRUP) on the Bata industrial estate, East Tilbury where she saw the work of the charity which encourages the re-use of furniture and equipment. TRUP boasts “probably Thurrock’s biggest second hand furniture store” with high quality, low cost goods. It’s ‘re-paint’ project provides surplus paint from retail and trade sources. This is available for charities, community groups and at a cost of £1 a litre for individuals or families in need. Angela said, “this is an invaluable service

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