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The Essex-based contractor donates its end-of-life scaffolding boards to the Forest Recycling Project, a social enterprise charity that runs a Green Champions carpentry course for marginalized adults to learn new skills.

Participants use materials such as old scaffolding boards to make a broad range of products such as garden planters, bird and bat boxes and table tops and shelves.

Edmond Carolan, Director at ENJ Scaffolding, said: “We do a lot with our end-of-life boards, from cutting them down into usable sizes and sole boards and selling them to businesses that up-scale them into furniture. We also give them away free of charge to schools, garden centres and charities such as Forest Recycling Project, which really resonates with everyone at ENJ. They do tremendous work for people in the local community for their mental health and emotional wellbeing, which plays a big part in everyone’s life, especially at the moment.”

Greg Dickson, Project Manager and Volunteer Mentor at the Forest Recycling Project, said: “ENJ Scaffolding has been one of our largest donors over the last year. They have been extremely generous and have gone out of their way to help us.”

“Their donations make such a positive impact to our operations.” For more on the Forest Recycling Project visit www.frpuk.org

NATIONAL ACCESS AND SCAFFOLDING CONFEDERATION NASC.ORG.UK