– Scottish Parliament written question – answered at on 9 December 2008.
Elaine Murray
Labour
Question S3W-18373
To ask the Scottish Executive which community recycling projects have received support since the announcement on 24 January 2008 of £2.5 million of government funding over three years for community recycling.
Richard Lochhead
Scottish National Party
The community recycling projects that have received funding since January 2008 are set out in the following table. The actual funding being made available by the Scottish Government under the INCREASE III Programme for community recycling projects is in fact £7.5 million over the period 2008-09 – 2010-11.
| Organisation | Town | Name of Project | Award |
| Alloa Community Enterprises Ltd | Alloa, Clackmannanshire | Enterprise Development | £180,000.00 |
| Blythswood Care | Evanton, Highland | Re-use and Recycling Partnership | £91,440.00 |
| Friends of the Earth Scotland Ltd | Edinburgh | Communities Reducing Excess Waste (CREW) | £203,198.44 |
| Golspie Recycling and Environmental Action Network | Golspie, Highland | GREAN Development Project | £242,063.00 |
| Highland Real Nappy Project | Grantown-on-Spey, Highland | Real Nappies for Highland Babies | £176,787.00 |
| Sustain Dundee | Dundee | Dundee Real Nappy Campaign | £53,630.45 |
| The Wise Group | Glasgow | Getting Glasgow Waste Wise | £299,065.00 |
| Aberdeen Forward | Aberdeen | Grampian Real Nappy Project | £108,912.14 |
| Changeworks | Edinburgh | Edinburgh and Lothians Real Nappy Project | £165,911.00 |
| Compost Doctors Scotland | Stirling | Compost Doctors Scotland | £133,000.00 |
| Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association | Edinburgh | Green Caretakers On-Site Household Composting Service | £32,490.00 |
| Edinburgh Cyrenians | Edinburgh | Cyrenians Waste Collection Services | £189,458.00 |
| Employability Orkney (Restart Orkney) | Orkney | Restart Orkney - Enterprise Development | £74,700.00 |
| Fallin Community Services | Fallin, Stirling | Polmaise Community Reuse Centre | £105,500.00 |
| Forth Environment Link | Stirling | Forth Valley Waste Minimisation Programme | £74,579.00 |
| Glasgow Furniture Initiative | Glasgow | GFI: The Next Steps | £225,000.00 |
| Glasgow Wood Recycling | Glasgow | Glasgow Wood Recycling Expansion & Enterprise | £91,991.00 |
| Good Green Fun CIC | Stirling | Good Green Fun Move to Self Sufficiency | £41,706.00 |
| Instant Neighbour | Aberdeen | The Aberdeen Instant Neighbour Workshop | £138,525.00 |
| Intowork (Bits and Bobs) | Edinburgh | Community Scrapstore | £84,500.00 |
| Moray Waste Busters Limited | Forres, Moray | Completion of Site Development | £37,142.00 |
| Perth and Kinross Real Nappy Network | Perth | Perth and Kinross Real Nappy Scheme | £57,190.00 |
| Recycle to Cycle (The Bike Station) | Edinburgh | The Bike Station | £133,000.00 |
| RePaint Scotland | Glasgow | RePaint Scotland | £299,503.00 |
| Ross-Shire Waste Action Network Ltd | Dingwall, Highland | RoWAN: Towards Waste-free Communities Project | £299,534.00 |
| Tiree Environmental Action and Recycling Group | Tiree | Mobile Waste Agri-Plastic Recycling Service for Tiree | £9,810.00 |
Yes2 people think so
No3 people think not
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