Sustainable Blacon are looking for people who may be interested in working in a voluntary or paid position on an exciting new venture ‘Recycle Your Cycle’.
With support from Cycle Chester, we hope to put unused bicycles back into use across Blacon.
There may be hundreds of unused bicycles across Blacon in household garages, sheds or lofts, which are the wrong size (old children’s bikes?), need repair or are no longer required. We would like to get them back into use after repair by us and either returned to the owner for a nominal repair cost, or by donating them into a community scheme where they could be made available for low cost purchase, loan, swap or rental. To learn more or get involved please contact Sustainable Blacon on 01244 380 150.
Blacon Furniture Project collects quality used furniture from the local area, which it sells at an affordable price via its retail outlet. It thus satisfies a local householder need while providing paid employment and volunteering opportunities in the area. So far the project has supported over 3250 homes.
To maximise Blacon's potential as an exemplary 'sustainable urban community', Sustainable Blacon has also been able to influence projects managed by others, in particular:
Blacon Parade redevelopment: as part of this forthcoming redevelopment project, we propose to install a unique energy facility combining energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
Energy efficiency improvements in the 3 Chester and District Housing Trust (CDHT) tower blocks in Blacon; where the external walls are being thermally clad in a project part financed by British Gas.
