FREE support to recycling and re-use enterprises offered by WRAP
Revised information about the support WRAP can offer SMEs (commercial businesses and third sector organisations) is available on the WRAP website and can be found here: http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/business-support-recycling-and-re-use.
WRAP can provide business support services can help:
• expand capacity;
• improve business efficiency and output quality; and
• access finance through business planning and strategy development.
Key areas include:
• Marketing and Sales
• Operations
• Management support
This support is specifically aimed at SMEs (Small and Medium sized Entreprises) and re-use enterprises operating in the third sector. The definition of an SME is a business with fewer than 250 employees and either a total turnover of less than £42 million or a balance sheet total (net worth) of less than £36 million. SMEs with outside investors may still be eligible for support provided that no more than 25% of the business is owned by a company of larger size than an SME.
Third sector re-use enterprises
Third sector re-use enterprises are eligible for business support services provided that they are involved with the re-use or repair of one or more of the following materials:
• WEEE;
• textiles (clothes but also home textiles such as carpets and curtains);
• furniture (office and domestic); and
• food (re-distribution for human consumption).
• Other materials, for example paint and mattresses, may be considered subject to agreement.
Support to consortia of re-use enterprises, working in collaboration or in conjunction with local authorities or commercial companies, is in scope provided organisations are involved with the re-use or repair of one or more of the materials listed above.
Commercial businesses
There are two types of business activity that are eligible for business support services:-
a) Reprocessing or collection business operating in (or a start-up business planning to operate in) the UK recycling sector and recycling one or more of the following materials: food waste; glass; mixed plastics; textiles (carpets, clothes and mattresses), WEEE or wood (lower grade). The waste that you are recycling must mainly be derived from the UK's waste stream.
b) A company operating in the UK re-using or repairing one or more of the following materials: WEEE, textiles (clothes but also home textiles such as carpets and curtains), furniture (office and domestic).
Additional information about grant support can be found here: http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/grant-support-re-use-and-repair
Please note that this applies to England only. Organisations in Wales should contact WRAP Cymru and organisations in Scotland should contact Zero Waste Scotland.
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