Climate Challenge Fund Application Form Applicant Organisation from Q1.1 Swap and Reuse Hub (Edinburgh) Project Name from Q2.1 SHRUB:Swap and Reuse Hub CO2e Project Savings from Q2.6 418 tonnes CO2e Total CCF grant being applied for (maximum £150,000) £107,759 CO2e Lifetime Savings from Q2.6 1023.3 tonnes CO2e Project Start Date 01/04/17 Project Finish Date 31/03/18 Cooperative
-Manage and promote Food Sharing App -Manage food business collections and redistribution -Run weekly open meetings and public free food Wee Spoke - 2/week bike repair drop-in workshops - 1/week ‘Bikes For Refugees’ workshop - 1/week workshop in collaboration with Crisis SwapShop -Guthrie St. SwapShop open 20 hours/week -Welcome and induct new volunteer intake. -Sort and assign non tradable goods for recycling with partner organisations. -Manage monthly Swapshop working Film Screenings - 2 screenings at the SHRUB - 1 outside screening with local partners Budget Expenditure (see CCF 5 Application Finance for figures): -Advertise new jobs the recruitment and HR budget and processing payrolls. Staff remaining in post will be paid their salaries from April. Spending on food for volunteers with volunteer engagement fund. Spending on promoting and managing the food sharing app. - Utility payments from Rent & Utilities Budget Membership Lapsed members are targeted in a marketing campaign to encourage them to renew membership. - Resources required for renovation of workshop space: cutting table/ stowaway tables/chairs/shelving/ storage boxes/paint - Bike Workshops require experienced facilitators, relevant and a sufficient stock of bike parts. -Swapshop: experienced volunteers to facilitate project delivery -Transport materials for recycling partners May 2017 - Handover materials for new staff
The legacy of the Swap and Reuse Hub will continue long after this funding period. We anticipate our legacy to include; creating significant behaviour change and upskilling the local community sharing our experiences with other communities around Scotland and beyond promoting and facilitating reuse creating a new swapping economy strengthening links between students and local residents embedding the SHRUB in the community where it is widely known and valued cutting carbon and diverting from landfill acting as an incubator for new ideas and new ways of creating a world without waste providing a space for others with shared goals to use The ongoing impact of SHRUB activities After this period of CCF funding, we will continue to transform the behaviours and attitudes of thousands of community members from consumerism to reusing and recovering the value of discarded material goods and promoting a Circular Economy. Volunteers and members will learn skills and gain personal empowerment to take action in their communities, potentially for the rest of their lives. Others who engage with our project will learn about embodied carbon and behaviours that could last for a number of years. Skills such as practical repairs, carbon accounting, fundraising, meeting facilitation and digital communications will combine with experience of creativity and innovation, collaborative working and sustainability in practice and new behaviours around waste reduction, reuse, repair and recycling. Participants will take what they have learned into the rest of their lives, influencing through social networks the behaviours of their friends and neighbours. The SHRUB has a streak of radical innovation ingrained into its DNA. We were the UK’s first student-led registered cooperative, and also the student-led group to tackle the immense waste of resources on campus using a systematic, effective, large-scale, and replicable model. This model has already been replicated nationally through advice and advocacy where we have advised affiliates of Edinburgh University and the University of Essex amongst others. Funding in 2017/18 will help us to engrain our own learning in other communities across Scotland and beyond, building a critical mass of people and communities building a world without waste. The connections made between people in this project will strengthen the community centred around the cooperative, with an increased capacity to build on their knowledge of sustainability and low carbon behaviour in the future. Our Food Sharing app, expected to reach approximately 3,000 people