Social Value

Recent donations

Plan B supports food banks in all of the locations in which we work, and we have donated over 31,000 items of food to local community projects.

Through our Random Acts of Kindness initiative, staff at our Great Yarmouth head office pooled their individual budgets to deliver £625 each to two local projects. One of the projects was The Well in Gorleston, which provided a ‘Big Christmas Breakfast’ for their community and the other was the GYNet Community project, which was able to spread a lot of joy to their clients, too.

Social Value in Action – The Lighthouse Project

Our team recently attended a volunteering day with The Lighthouse Project, our chosen charity partner on the Essex County Council HWRC Materials Recycling and Treatment contract. The charity refurbishes pre-loved furniture and electrical appliances for local people in need, helping essential items stay in circulation through the Emergency Living Fund. On the day, our Materials Lead worked alongside the team preparing large domestic appliances for resale, cleaning and carrying out minor repairs to ensure they were ready for collection, a hands-on experience that reinforced our commitment to reuse, sustainability and delivering meaningful social value within the community.

Bridgend Community Fund – Now Open

We manage the waste collection services and Household Waste Recycling Centres in Bridgend on behalf of Bridgend County Borough Council (BCBC). As part of our commitment to directly supporting the Bridgend Community, we have created a dedicated community fund of £10,000 per year to provide grants to local initiatives. The fund is intended to support initiatives in the following eight areas and applicants must demonstrate how their initiative will support at least one of these funding themes: