Warwick Volunteers

Volunteers

Campus Rooms Clearance

(We are hoping to bring alot of changes to "Campus Rooms Clearance" so - keep in touch! )

Each year, a significant volume of saleable goods and food is left behind by undergraduate and postgraduate students and without intervention, the majority of this is incinerated

For the past two years, Warwick Volunteers -in partnership with Oxfam and Warwick Accommodation- has been building the capacity necessary to:

  • Reduce the environmental impact of this waste
  • Recycle as much unsaleable stock as possible
  • Recover stock of significant value to support a range of local charities and help Oxfam's work in overcoming poverty and suffering. The project also allies with local homeless and refugees' charities to redirect food and other goods. Thus far, we have supported Oxfam, the Coventry Peace House, the Coventry Refugee Centre, Second Chance, the Turn Around Project, Age Concern charity shops, Coventry Homeless projects (Norton House, Coventry Cyrenians, Jesus Army), Kairos and many other.
Time Commitment:
Rooms Clearances take place on the Saturday of Week 10, during each academic term. You can volunteer for however long you can manage; from one hour to the whole day! Any help you can give is massively appreciated.
 
Training and support:

Health and Safety Training is given and gloves are supplied.

Important note:

For the purposes of transparency, all goods retrieved are sold for charitiable purposes, recycled or disposed off, in line with Warwick Accommodation policy.

 

Upcoming Volunteering Opportunities:


Volunteers are needed to help with collecting and sorting donations for the Campus Rooms Clearance on:

Saturday 19th March 11am-4pm
If you would like to get involved please Sign Up Here
Page contact: Warwick Volunteers Last revised: Tue 14 Jun 2011
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