Welcome to Red2Green's website
Red2Green is a registered charity
which runs projects across Cambridgeshire providing leisure, educational
and work opportunities
for over 600 people with a wide range of disabilities, including mental health problems, learning
disabilities, sensory impairments, physical disability and social communication disorders.
For email and telephone contact details for individual projects, click here or telephone our main number, 01223 811662, for further information.
Latest news from Red2Green
Red2Green seeks volunteer eBay enthusiasts
Red2Green seeks eBay enthusiasts to help in its new shop at 297 Histon
Road. Rachel Newell, manager of the Cambridge Online Auction Shop,
said: "We've a whole range of positions available from listing items on
eBay to wrapping and dispatching. So whether you're an eBay nut,
recycling buff, have retail experience or just fancy helping out in the
shop, then we'd love to hear from you".
Click here for more information on volunteering at Red2Green's shop.
Red2Green offers IT and retail qualifications at new shop
Red2Green has opened a thriving new shop at 297 Histon Road, Cambridge, to
encourage people to buy and sell reused and recycled household and office
items. Reboot, Red2Green's computer refurbishing project, has set up its
workshop at the new site, and also opened is the Cambridge Online Auction
Shop, where people can deposit items they want auctioned on eBay. The joint
venture, with Cambridge Regional College, means that learners can now take
qualifications preparing them for work in the retail and IT industries.
Click here for the press release.
Memorial Fund Opens
The Grace Peeling Memorial Fund has been launched to support our clients with Asperger Syndrome
by providing small grants and setting up a lending library. Grace volunteered for Red2Green in the
early days and this fund is a permanent memorial to her.
Click here for more information about the Grace Peeling Memorial Fund.
Red2Green's Tenth Anniversary Ball
'Friends of Red2Green' are pleased to announce details of a glittering
ball to celebrate our 10th anniversary. This black tie event is at Girton College
in Cambridge, on Saturday 2 February 2008 from 7.00 p.m..
The evening is being organised by friends from Napp Pharmaceuticals and there will be a piper, live band (Vice Versa), big balloon race, raffle, buffet and much more. It looks set to be a very memorable evening.
Tenth Anniversary Ball: click here for the flyer (PDF).
Biotechnology company, Genzyme, helps Red2Green’s trainees prepare for work
Ten young people in Cambridgeshire will move a step further towards
employment thanks to a huge £1000 cheque presented today (20 November) to
Tor Docherty, Red2Green’s Chief Executive. The donation comes from Genzyme,
a leading biotechnology company with laboratories in the city, and will fund
a series of workshops by teaching young adults how to brush up their skills,
present their CV and excel in an interview.
Click here for the press release.
Reboot opens new service to businesses
On National Social Enterprise Day (15 November), Red2Green's Reboot project
is launching a new computer recycling and disposal service to businesses in
and around Cambridgeshire.
Click here for the press release.
Click here for corporate sector recycling information sheet.
Red2Green offers pick of the pansies
Eye-catching pansies, polyanthus and other winter wonders are being offered
for sale by Red2Greenhouse, at its forthcoming open day on Saturday 20
October.
Click here for the press release detailing the weekend.
Andy Hamilton to perform benefit gig for Red2Green (19 November)
Red2Green is pleased to announce that Andy Hamilton, the charity's patron,
is performing a special night of stand up comedy on Monday 19 November at
Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall. Andy promises that the show will be "a
pageant of jokes, stories, personal anecdotes involving prime ministers,
unsubstantiated gossip, quizzes (with cash prizes), occasional abuse,
hypochondria, music, nudity and trampolining"! Red2Green is particularly
pleased that the evening is being supported by Lloyds TSB and Price Bailey.
Click here to download the event flyer (as a PDF).
Leading Cambridgeshire companies start Red2Green's 100 Club rolling
The David Ball Group, David Raynor Farms and Advance Cleaning Services lead
the way in joining Red2Green's new 100 Club, pledging monthly financial
support to further our activities. For the price of a couple of printer
cartridges each month, companies joining the 100 Club could support:
- four people with profound learning disabilities to work as gardeners in the community for a day giving them experience of work and the pride and dignity of helping others
- twenty isolated and vulnerable people to join an education class or club, reconnecting them with our community
- 60 people with severe disabilities to take cookery lessons and engage their senses through smell, touch and taste.
To find out more about the 100 Club, and the benefits to your company, click here.
Health for Life learner wins prestigious award
In June, one of Health for Life's learners, Janet Spencer, won a Learner
Endeavour Award at Cambridge Regional College's Festival of Achievement
2007. A big congratulations from everybody at Red2Green.
Red2Green's Summer Soiree a bubbling success
Red2Green's Summer Soiree on 3rd July was an enormous success, thanks to the
generosity of Genzyme Therapeutics Ltd, Olive Catering Services Ltd and
ERBI, who hosted, catered and co-ordinated the event. Following the
evening, Peter Hains, Red2Green's honorary vice-president, said:
"Thanks to
the generosity of these companies we were able to showcase Red2Green in true
style, showing Cambridge based employers what we can offer them, and how
they can support us."
For more about the soiree, see below.
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