Supporting innovation in community-based recycling

At Resource Media we actively promote social and environmental issues, and six years ago set up the Resource Awards to identify, promote and reward the achievements of community-based and not-for-profit recycling projects.
The awards take place at the CRN annual conference, which traditionally attracts the largest audience among the community sector, in addition to government officials, industry and local authority representatives. This year’s conference and awards will be held in London on 4 June and will see the sum of £10,000 given away to winning organizations – £2,500 to each project. Schemes are able to spend their prize money as a stand-alone amount or use it as match funding in order to gain extra funding. Over the years, winning projects have reiterated the long-term value gained from winning a national award – not just in terms of the prize money, but also in boosting credibility among their communities; when working with local authorities, and in the case of those that employ volunteers, in making the volunteers feel they are working for something worthwhile. For these reasons, and with the underlying aim of promoting and encouraging the best of the community sector, we would like to offer the chance to win to the widest possible number of groups.

This year, thanks to the generosity and support of our sponsors, we are offering five categories:

• Novelis Community Recycling Project of the Year
• Yell Best Partnership Project
• Biffa Climate Conscious Award
• Berryman Kerbside Project of the Year


• Individual Contribution to the Community Waste Sector (this is a non-financial award.
  The winner receives a year’s subscription to Resource magazine and recycled glass award.)

Nomination forms can be downloaded by pressing the buttons above

• presentation of a £2,500 cheque
• a recycled glass award
• high-profile project coverage in Resource magazine