A social enterprise project in Exeter is looking for support to establish an alternative technology eduction centre for the South West.
A1 Positive Recycling Project, which is a non-profit enterprise, wants to build up a positive management team to help lead the future development of the project.
It is also hoping to find space in a vacant city centre property as a base for the project.
Neil Wintrip is the CEO and director for A1 which he started 15 years ago as an IT technician upgrading and repairing computers and providing environmental cleaning services. A1 is now specialising in local data destruction, computer and mobile phone recycling, ink and toner cartridge sales and recycling, The Project aim’s to reduce the Co2 carbon footprint for it’s client base in Exeter.
In May 2005 Neil received an Un Ltd level 1 Millennium award and a Co-op Community Dividend grant.
Neil said the planned alternative technology education centre would be aimed at training, educating and empowering adults with learning difficulties.
He said he was looking for dynamic and committed individuals who could offer practical hands-on support and sound business or community advice to help run a pilot project and to become part of the management board on the A1 management team in Exeter.
Neil is looking for the following in Exeter there are two types of partnership as follows: -
Informal partners are those who help with the working up of A1 Positive Recycling and may be involved in the delivery (e.g. members of a project steering group, or informal advisors) Such partners may be drawn from the voluntary, statutory or commercial sector, where mutual objectives are being met, or the specific partner has a mission to support A1 Positives community and management groups.
Formal Partners are partnership organisations that are working directly with A1 Positive Recycling to deliver manage the project. Such partners may be drawn from the voluntary, statutory or commercial sector. In this case there will be an identifiable contribution in terms of service delivery management. Some of these contributions may attract remuneration for services, e.g. bookkeeping, payroll, administration and management, and service delivery. However, it would be expected that such services would be provided on a not-for-profit and voluntary basis.
Neil is looking for ‘dynamic and committed individuals’ who can offer practical-hands-on-help and sound business community advice to act as board members on the positive management team = Together, Each, Accomplishes, More.
For further information and to arrange an interview call: (01392) 202779 / 07849462499
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