Brighter Future Workshop provides mobility equipment repair and training. Read more about their recycling work.
Photo: Paul and Andrew at Brighter Future Workshop
!!NEWS FLASH!!: Brighter Future Workshop awarded title of 'Best UK Social Enterprise' (3 December 2009)
Peter Cousins, Manager of Brighter Future Workshop, comments: “We at Brighter Future Workshop (BFW) are delighted to be acknowledged as the top enterprise in the UK. Winning this prestigious award will greatly enhance our public awareness and will lead to more people with disabilities becoming aware of BFW and the services we provide for the community.
I think the judges may have selected us as we stand out from the crowd. BFW has a clear vision for change by reducing or stopping the vast amount of mobility equipment that ends up in landfill sites, e.g. wheel-chairs, power chairs, scooters, rise and recline chairs, beds etc. by recycling it. We source donated end of life mobility equipment from individuals, mobility shops and NHS equipment centres. Our qualified engineers and safety manager ensure the equipment we recycle is fit purpose and safe for reuse. In the last four years we have recycled and repaired over 3,800 pieces of equipment with an estimated value of £211,000 that would have ended up in a landfill site to local needy disabled people to gain or regain their mobility helping them play a fuller role in society.
BFW also provides the means of recycling disabled people; we take young disadvantaged disabled who have e.g. physical, medical, learning or emotional problems (who have been thrown on life’s scrap heap) into our workshop, to assist our technicians to recycle the equipment.
Our project provides equality for people with various types of disabilities and those who have previously suffered from exclusion; we address these barriers to social integration, by offering recycled equipment and training to otherwise isolated individuals. This holistic approach was born out of the need that identified mobility equipment going to landfill, and the amount of young unemployed deprived disabled who are socially and economically excluded.”
Photo: Peter Cousins, MBE, and Jackie Tittle of Brighter Future Workshop show off their award, alongside partners Derek Tittle and Kathleen Cousins.
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