The ABLE Project: New Website goes live

The ABLE Project

The Green Business Network (GBN) is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation delivering environmental advice and projects mainly in Yorkshire. It has attracted national interest through innovative schemes - such as The ABLE Project - that combine social inclusion, environmental protection / enhancement and economic achievement all at the same time. Through ABLE and its successors, GBN is tackling derelict, underused and neglected public land, hand-in-hand with underachieving young people.

20080424

New Website goes live

Please note: since the end of 2007, this Blog has been a legacy site. The project now has its own dedicate website which can be found at www.theableproject.org.uk.

The information on this legacy site still remains a valuable archive, topical and relevant to the ten year story of ABLE's development, but not all of the links may be current and up to date.

At the time of writing (April 2008) we have now exceeded the new milestone of 3,000 attendances at the project and won a prestigious Award from the UK Public Health Association.

Overview

The ABLE Project (Wakefield) is a closed loop recycling scheme, also known as “cardboard to caviar”. In 2004, it relocated from Kirklees onto 34 acres of brownfield land at Calder Vale WWTW (see thumbnail above - click to enlarge). The site now comprises a unique fish farm social enterprise (supported by The Coalfields Regeneration Trust), co-located with a modern, meaningful and multifunctional greenspace (funded by Biffaward).

This blog provides an overview of the considerable acclaim which ABLE has received, together with key facts about the project.

In 2006, with the assistance of Recycling Action Yorkshire, the GBN proposed a follow-on scheme "CLONES". Using Calder Vale as the hub, "CLONES" will establish a cluster of best practise sites by replicating the environmentally sustainable ‘ABLE Principles’. These sites will be actively networked to ensure “joined up thinking” and symbiosis.

The ABLE Project

20080424

New Website goes live

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