We were so excited to get the opportunity through our mural project to get the mural at our Bakers Avenue site repainted, the last one had been there for 25 years! Local artists Lawrence Rose and Alice Cunningham consulted staff and volunteers at Forest Recycling Project about their design ideas before finalising design and painting. [...]
September 19, 2012
Our next Give or Take event will be on the 6th October at The Petchey Academy. Please come along and Give reusable goods you no longer need and Take some you do! We will be excepting donations from 11am and both accepting donations and allowing people to take things away between 12-3pm. Hackney Timebank will [...]
August 23, 2012
A huge thanks to the artists from The Bread Collective for completing the mural at our paint project on Saturday. With help from some of the FRP staff team and volunteers they did a fantastic job which really illustrates what can be done with some paint and some people power in just one day!…Come down [...]
July 23, 2012
We have a number of exciting volunteering opportunities enabling you to join a vibrant team, and be involved in a successful and ever-expanding community project, where you can learn new skills while benefiting local people and the wider environment. We are looking for people who are enthusiastic, flexible and reliable, with good communication and customer [...]
July 19, 2012
We were very happy to be asked to work with 1st Avenue community group in Newham to design and create a mural for the container on their urban garden site. On Saturday 30th June there was a great launch event during which we painted the mural and had a chance to meet all the inspiring people who have worked so [...]
July 2, 2012
Furnishing the Future wins MJ and National Recycling awards (June/July 2012) FRP is delighted to have been recognised for our part in the ‘Furnishing the Future’ initiative with Waltham Forest, Ascham Homes and ReStore Community Projects; in June/July 2012, the scheme has won the following two awards: The MJ (Municipal Journal) Achievement Award 2012: Innovative [...]
September 19, 2012