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From the Redditch Advertiser dated 27 July 2010

A LEADING eco pioneer from Redditch has made it into the West Midlands Top 50 Green Leaders league.

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From Northumberland Gazette dated 19 April 2010

Seahouses and Alnwick Freegle gives individuals, businesses and organisations like charities, schools or community groups a way to recycle unwanted household, office and other items, using an internet forum.

Freegle’s aims are to reduce waste by re-using things, to save resources and ease the burden on landfills by giving them free of charge to other members.

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From South Wales Argus, dated 4 April 2010

A CWMBRAN environmentalist helped recruit more than 2,000 people to a green website after being spurred into action when his wife was diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer.

Brian Godwin, 70, became a moderator for Freegle Torfaen when his wife was diagnosed with the illness more than two years ago. A CWMBRAN environmentalist helped recruit more than 2,000 people to a green website after being spurred into action when his wife was diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer.

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From Torfaen County Borough Council Website, March 2010

“Freegle has become my relief valve,” said Mr Godwin. “I was devastated when my wife was diagnosed with cancer – Freegle gives me a chance to focus on and think about something else during the day rather than get depressed about everything else that is happening.

“As well as Freegle, I’m also doing by bit to persuade local people to support recycling initiatives and I’m proud to be living in a county borough which has such excellent green credentials.”

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From The Bishop Press, community newspaper for Bishop Auckland, Issue number 24 dated 20 February 2010.

The group, which is run entirely by volunteers, is part of the Freegle scheme, which encourages people to give useful items to others rather than throw them away. Users of the scheme sign up to an online mailing list, which allows them to advertise items that they wish to give away as well as making it possible to make requests for certain items.

All items must be given free of charge and “no strings attached”. Looking on the website today, a wide array of items were being given away; there was a freezerand a pair of Mothercare dungarees. A TV had been given away just the other day.

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From About My Area on 15 March 2010

You can Freegle them. “Free what?” Freegle is an online message board for local people to request things they need or offer things they don’t. The aim is to reduce waste going to landfill by re-using things. Nationwide, Freegle has over a million members and Bedford Freegle, which started in 2005, has just turned 5 with current membership standing at 12,341. It is moderated by volunteers according to very simple rules and any item offered has to be free – no pets or animals are allowed.

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