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
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
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