Kids Recycling Fun Day

Project Description

The Kids Recycling Fun Day was a one day event held on the 27^th October at the Corn Exchange aimed at encouraging children and parents to take responsibility for their litter & waste and to encourage them to increase their recycling efforts. The event took place in October to coincide with the first ever national recycling week, “The Big Recycle."

The event showed children and parents of North Dorset what happens to recycling and how they can reduce their waste to make a cleaner, greener Dorset. Included in the event were stalls on re-usable energy, composting, using recycled products, making use of locally resourced products.  Over 300 people attended the event was received very positively by all of those who attended.

Amount Awarded

£1000 towards capital costs of event.

Amount Levered

£1000 from North Dorset’s recycling budget provided matched funding.

Liveability Perfromance Indicators

The project clearly supported the cleaner and greener element of the ODPM agenda for cleaner, safer, greener.

Map showing location of Project

You can click here to go to location of Project Number 6.

Photographs

Lessons Learnt

• Needs to be more inclusive for older children, particularly 11 – 14 year olds.
• More recycled products on sale at events
• Food needs to be provided for all day events