Creation Recycling in South Yorkshire

	About Us By taking part in our ‘Blue Box’ and Green Bag recycling scheme you can actively help us create employment, boost the local economy and safeguard our environment for the future. Because we are a not-for-profit venture every penny we make from re-selling recycled goods gets ploughed back into the project, building a successful and prosperous community business, run by local people for local people.
	Creation Recycling Ltd is an innovative social enterprise created as a result of a feasibility study undertaken by the Valley Community Partnership into options for kerbside recycling. One outcome of the study was that the Valley area, on its own, would not provide sufficient economies of scale for the project to be economically viable or sustainable and therefore 3 different community partnerships have lent their support to the project which has seen Creation working across a wider area of benefit i.e. 11,549 households or 10% of the Borough of Rotherham.

Creation currently offers a weekly kerbside collection service of dry recyclables (glass, cans, textiles and mixed paper and card) to 11,549 households in the most disadvantaged and hard to reach communities in Rotherham.

In addition to their collection service Creation also operate a materials handling and processing facility, which takes all the recyclable materials collected by RMBC in the remaining 90% of the Borough.

Creation is currently financed for a 2-year action research period, which will lead to self sustainability by year 3. Funding comes from a variety of sources including SRB6, Objective 1 and Lottery CRED funding. Year 1 funding had a high capital investment of approximately £250k and revenue costs of £350K but generated sales income of approximately £150k. The current running costs for the initial kerbside collection and materials processing is estimated at £400k per annum.

Creation employs a total of 15 staff (including 1 apprentice) and offers volunteer/training placements to a variety of people including young people, asylum seekers and people with learning difficulties. We offer an exciting programme of education and awareness raising to local schools as part of their citizenship curriculum. Creation has already achieved Investors in People standard.

Creation delivers services on behalf of the Local Authority in disadvantaged areas, contributing to neighbourhood management and enabling the Local Authority to achieve stretched statutory targets. Through adoption of the proximity principle, Creation sources as much of their own requirements as possible, employ local people and involve the local community thereby increasing on multiplying the economic impact of the project.

Creation Recycling Ltd has very strong environmental and social aims, which we are achieving, but the bottom line is – we are a business and we aim to be a very successful one.

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