YOOZ Youth and Volunteer Training project (GB-SC-SC022910-FR-0022401)
Funding Organization
£40,000
Recipient Organization
To employ a new full-time Training and Development Manager who will be responsible for designing, and carrying out, in-house structured training programmes for young people aged 18 -25 years from Bellshill and the surrounding areas.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 60000 |
| Amount Awarded | 40000 |
| Award Date | 2012-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | S01004678 |
| Grant Programme: Title | William Grant Youth Opportunities Fund (CLOSED) |
| Last Modified | 2024-02-12T10:04:00Z |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 24 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2014-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2012-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | SC280339 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Active4All was set up in 2005 with the main objective "to relieve persons in the UK and anywhere in the world who are, disadvantaged or deprived, or who have been suffering from a mental disorder or disability, or persons who wish or require support to attain or achieve individual development." (Active4All Memorandum of Association) Our charity also aims to raise funds to build the first ever custom-built state of the art sport and activity centre for excellence for disabled and able-bodied individuals in the UK. Since its conception, nearly nine years ago, Active4All has evolved and expanded to comprise a much broader set of aims and objectives, which are realised mostly under the name Yooz Ltd. Yooz Ltd is the trading name for Active4All and was set up in 2009 to raise funds for the charity. The company has grown into an exciting social enterprise that focuses on the environment, education and increasing peoples? employability. We are currently operating from a warehouse in Bellshill, in one of Scotland?s most deprived areas; diverting waste from landfill by providing a collection service for construction companies, schools, councils and other businesses. We aim to reuse 85% and recycle 15% of what passes through our doors; selling mainly to small builders and the DIY market across the central belt of Scotland. We have also started to buy and sell new timber; increasing our market potential and reputation as a supplier of DIY goods. Our objectives include: establishing a Scottish based manufacturing plant to process waste plastics and wood into a range of products for sale, to set up a production process to process waste industrial plastics, for sale back to manufacturers of plastic goods; to build on existing experience and capacity to re-use additional types of more waste materials Our social aims include, to provide workplace opportunities for individuals that are disengaged, disadvantaged and / or marginalised within our communities. We have a particular focus on young people, the long term unemployed and those suffering from physical or mental ill health. Increased employability is a large focus for many of our people, however throughout their time with us we work with them to achieve: Increased resilience; self-esteem & confidence; community involvement; respect for others, the community & environment. In the last year, we have provided over 85 placements ? from hands-on warehousing, stock control, driving, forklift driving skills through to administrative and customer service experience. We aim to take on more placements year on year; in order to heighten our social impact and give more people in our community the chance of a brighter future. All of our products are either sold to the community at a low cost or donated free of charge, with the aim of improving peoples' living conditions and facilities while educating them about the importance of recycling and environmental protection. We recently won Best Green Business at Lanarkshire Business Excellence Awards 2014 and have been shortlisted in the Environmental Project of the Year category of STV's Finding Scotland's Real Heroes 2014. 
Our product range policy is to sell materials for the use that they were originally made. The aim of Zero Waste Scotland is to attempt to keep waste material for use higher up the heirarchy of waste disposal - ie that materials be used for original purpose (re-use). The opposite end of this would be for materials to be sent to landfill, and the next level up is for the material to be sent for 'energy from waste ' schemes. Energy from waste could be likened to the incineration of waste to create energy in the form of heat or electricity. The range of products we sell are as follows: - construction materials, new and unused, for use for its original purpose - construction materials used and for sale as original purpose - waste materials for sale for other uses; eg wood from waste pallets - furniture, recovered as waste and for sale per original purpose - furniture manufactured from waste materials for sale to the public - waste plastic used to manufacture new products We aim to introduce new manufactured products, introducing Waste Wood derived goods as a new product range, and waste plastic based new products. The introduction of wood products manufactured from waste woods will allow us to expand our range of wood products through adding value to wood which would otherwise be used for energy from waste schemes. To meet customer demand, we also buy in new timber for sale, and to prove our trials of concrete slabs, buy in slabs from another producer. We offer a waste collection service to businesses and the domestic market throughout the central belt of Scotland. We cover a broad area from Dundee to Perth and down to Edinburgh; East and West Lothian; Stirling and Falkirk; Glasgow and Lanarkshire; and across to Inverclyde and Ayrshire. Charges for collection are raised, based on the value of the material being collected and the collection distance. We offer a delivery service for goods and products we sell, again covering the above area. Delivery charges are made based on mileage involved. We have 10 trucks and vans which can handle loads of up to 3 tons at a time. Larger loads are handled by haulage companies. |