Proper Job secures National Lottery funding

Proper Job secures National Lottery funding

Proper Job Resource Centre CIO, based in Chagford, have been successful in their bid for £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund. The funding will go towards their community workshops and events.

Proper Job will co-ordinate a series of at least 30 workshops and events over the next 12 months, engaging local people to promote and encourage sustainable behaviours, especially to reduce waste. Events will include children’s workshops, skill-share events, repair workshops and composting talks. Proper Job already run educational events, engaging 660 beneficiaries last year, but with the help of the Community Fund will be expanding to offer more workshops in the West Devon area.

Proper Job’s aim is to bring people together and build resilience through the cost-of-living crisis by increasing awareness and promoting the benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling. They also seek to conserve the local natural environment through education and promoting sustainable behaviours to reduce waste, increase biodiversity and reduce carbon emissions.

The project will benefit a range of different demographics by hosting inter-generational skill-share events. At least 10 of the workshops and events will be targeted towards families with children. Proper Job can help to educate and inspire children to reduce their waste and care about the environment therefore supporting them and their families at the earliest stage possible to have positive waste behaviours for life.

Proper Job are proud to have a large group of supporters, volunteers (ranging from the ages of 10-90), regular customers and workshop providers, engaging with at least 15,500 beneficiaries each year at the reuse centre and shop.

Upcoming events include a summer holiday junk modelling workshop, sewing repair, electrical repair, community film screening and talk and community litter picking.

For more information on Proper Job upcoming events visit their website www.proper-job.org or find them on Facebook and Insta @properjobreuse