Local Community
V C Cooke helping the local community
Environmental Impacts
Investing In The Community
As an ongoing practice, VC Cooke manage a policy to actively return a % of profits from the public recycling area.
Revenue created from card, paper, glass and metal sales is used for the wellbeing of our community.
Throughout 2010 we volunteered sponsorship to many local charities, giving £5000.support to community regeneration projects such as;
Beccles Lido - no charge provision of skips for removal of construction waste, consultation
Bungay Community Library Garden - donation of graded soil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRW6RHn4puA
Clinks Care Farm, Toft monks - donation of graded topsoil
Bungay Football club - donation to pitch refurbishment
Mutford Football Club - supply of juniors kit
Beccles Carnival - event no charge waste and recycling service
Beccles Duck Race - event no charge waste and recycling service
Southwold Model Railway Exhibition - event no charge waste and recycling service
Beccles Brownies Millennium Rose Garden - donation of graded soil
Loddon Scouts - rebate on drinks can collection
Most recently we sponsored The Beach Radio "Be Safe Be Seen" kids road safety campaign. In the build up to Christmas 2010, we provided free bins and waste collection for the switching on of the Christmas lights in Beccles, Southwold and Halesworth. In addition to this we donated £500 to the Beccles Business Association as a contribution for the celebrity "switching on" by Katy Manning.
Community Partnerships
Following recommendations from Beccles Business Association, Waveney economic regeneration team and a director of The Community Forum social enterprise group VC Cooke were invited to speak at the Waveney Rural Summit 22 October 2010.
Our remit was to discuss "contributing to the rural economy through green iniatives"
The successful day brought commerce, local government and charities together to better understand the benefits of working more closely to improve Quality of Life in this beautiful part of the country.
We enjoyed contributing to this event and have arranged a further meeting to extend our support
Be Safe Be Seen
'Be Safe Be Seen' is a high profile community campaign to keep local children safe on the roads. Over 900 are killed or injured each year in the UK. The figures rise during the dark winter months.
'Be Safe Be Seen' aims to reduce accidents by providing school children with free reflective stickers thus giving greater visibility when walking to and from school. Children love stickers and plaster them accross their bikes, bags and coats. Parents are given some peace of mind that their kids are safe.
'Be Safe Be Seen' is dominating The Beach radio station for an 8 week period. VC Cooke are the sole sponsor of this project by funding 20,000 reflective stickers which are to be distributed via listener requests and visits to local schools and clubs.