A community project run by Harrogate’s Bettys & Taylors celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
The Cone Exchange marked two decades of recycling on Friday.
The idea was sparked by Chris Powell who worked in the Taylors tea production hall at the time.
He was showing a group of children around the factory, when one child saw a cardboard cone being put into a recycling bin and requested to take it home to make a Christmas angel.
From there, the Cone Exchange was born and has since dedicated itself to recycling waste, raising money for charities and bringing the community together.
The project, which is based on the Bettys & Taylors Harrogate site, collects waste from businesses and the wider community to raise money, which is then donated to local charities, including Horticap and Henshaws.
It has also worked with a range of local initiatives, including planting trees with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, as well as providing work experience for people with additional needs.
Mr Powell is now the events and education co-ordinator for the project and has helped over 200 schools, playgroups and community groups teach young people about recycling.
He said:
“From that first spark of the idea for the Cone Exchange, our aim has always been to release the potential of things that others might see as waste, and seeing the ability, not disability, in people.
“By encouraging the reuse and repurposing of items that some might consider ‘trash’ into treasure, we try to capture people’s imaginations and show them how they can make a difference to protect the planet and raise funds for local good causes.
“I don’t think any of us ever imagined how far-reaching our impact would be so it’s lovely to celebrate and thank so many of our key partners and supporters from the last two decades.”
The Cone Exchange has raised over £200,000 in the last decade from talks, events and sales of recycled materials.
Sarah Wells, community manager at Bettys & Taylors, added:
“We have long-standing partnerships with some brilliant local charities and groups and by working together, we create a wider-reaching impact. Not to mention our team of community volunteers who give their time, crafty skills, and ideas, and without whom we couldn’t run the project.
“And finally, this special occasion offers us the opportunity to recognise and thank Chris. His dedication and creative vision for this project, along with his commitment to supporting our local community has been enduring for 20 years and we are delighted to be able to recognise these achievements today.”
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Business Breakfast: Harrogate digital agency embarks on US expansion
Zelst, a Harrogate-based search marketing agency, is expanding to the US after 17-years in business.
The new overseas firm will be based in Dover, Delaware.
The company hopes by the overseas expansion will allow US work and clients to integrate with the UK team more seamlessly.
Director, Peter Van Zelst, said:
“The US economy is a little hotter than ours at present, and it’s a challenge to find highly experienced search and PPC professionals in some areas of the States. We’ve seen a demand for our services, and the different approaches we bring to projects. Establishing a business in the US was the natural next step.
“As one of the north’s longest established and most experienced search marketing agencies, we’re adept at working collaboratively alongside clients and agencies alike, and the East Coast of the US, in particular, is fairly straightforward to service, with its connections and smaller time difference with the UK.”
Harrogate law firm to partner with Yorkshire Dales charity for second year running
LCF Law has entered its second year of partnership with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
The charity supports the people, landscapes, and wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales.
Since the partnership began, the firm has donated £7,500 to the trust – contributing to 500 trees being planted.
Bridie Johnson-Power, from LCF Law, said:
“Our first volunteering project with the Trust involved us helping to maintain the woodland and clear redundant plastic tubes for recycling at Bargh Wood.
“Then more volunteers ventured out into the Dales to join a mixed group of corporate partners planting 400 trees to extend The Hawes woodland.
“Most recently a group of us volunteered for the woodland maintenance day at Swinesett Hill, and despite the torrential rain, we got a lot done!”
Development officer, Richard Hore, from the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust said:
“It’s been great getting to know some of the LCF Law team, all of whom have been so enthusiastic about volunteering and learning more about our work.
“We know they have enjoyed engaging with our partnership and connecting with nature to improve their wellbeing and that of our planet.”
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Business Breakfast: Knaresborough firms to be quizzed on energy bills
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
Knaresborough businesses are to be quizzed about the impact of higher energy bills.
Knaresborough Chamber of Trade & Commerce said at its latest meeting it would undertake a survey of local businesses in the coming weeks.
It will attempt to find out how much their bills are increasing by and how much difference recently announced government plans to support them will make.
Peter Lacey, executive member of the chamber, which has about 60 members, said the online survey was likely to go out in the middle of next week and it is hoped members and non-members will respond to provide a fuller picture of the situation confronting businesses in the town.
Harrogate law firm partners with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
LCF Law staff plant hundreds of trees at their first volunteering day.
Harrogate law firm, LCF Law has entered a partnership with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
LCF Law will help the trust, which looks after the Yorkshire Dales, plant 1,000 trees over the next two years.
Simon Stell, managing partner at LCF Law, said:
“We are hugely committed to working sustainably and offsetting our carbon footprint and we also want to leave a long-term legacy.”
Staff at the law firm, which employs 125 people at offices in Harrogate, Bradford, Leeds and Ilkley, will volunteer for the trust as part of the partnership.
In 2021, the trust planted 31,851 trees.
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