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The Air Ambulance Service Community Impact Recycling Door-to-Door Project

Emma Peake Director of Retail & Trading

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Content

• Community Impact Award – we won!
• What is the Recycling Door-to-Door Project?
• Background
• The Story So Far . . . 2016
• People - It makes a Difference
• Questions?

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Community Impact Award

We were delighted to win the Community Impact Award at this year’s Charity Retail Association Annual Conference. Today, the Air Ambulance Service will give you an overview of how we started our journey, where we are to date…… Exciting times!

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What is the Recycling Door-to- Door Project?

We are all familiar with the collection bags that many of us receive at home. The bags are collected, stock is sorted and distributed as necessary. The Air Ambulance Service identified the need to bring this in- house, and so our venture began . . . .

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Background

• In early 2016, we started putting plans in place to bring

collections in-house.

• This was due to having stock issues with our shops, and the

rapid expansion of the charity shops

• Involved a big recruitment drive, so our Recycling Team got

in touch with the Job Centre & CT Skills for their assistance.

• Working together, we set a series of recruitment processes

including holding NVQ courses and holding selection days.

• First phase resulted in 9 job offers – second phase now 25

employees on board!

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People – It makes a Difference!

• Majority of people employed so far have

been fantastic – giving some of them a real purpose in life.

• Some very heart-warming stories and feel

good factor.

• Working with the Job Centre, the Charity

has offered a variety of NVQ courses to our employees.

• The charity also has some long term

placements on board - work ethic commended.

• In October, we introduced our first reward

and recognition event with a talk from one

• f our paramedics.

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The Story So Far . . . . 2016

• We started by trialling the county of Leicestershire in

February – and analysed data and stock.

• Formal roll-out commenced between March and May with

two teams in place.

• Cover approx. 34,000 houses per week.
• Generating approx. 10 tonnes of stock per week.
• Approx 65-70% of stock goes to our shop, with prime stock

being fast-tracked.

• Stock selling on the internet
• Increase of shop sales

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Thanks for listening! Any questions?