EMERGE has been recognised in the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.
EMERGE has been recognised in the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. The Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme that approves members based on seven characteristics of good employment: Secure work Flexible work Pay Engagement and Voice...
Reclaimed Wood Workshop for Community Allotment Volunteers
Community cohesion and mobility are at the heart of Touch Wood’s focus, and we’re proud to have recently collaborated with Willmott Dixon to build a reclaimed wood workshop for Rochdale-based charity, Petrus. This workshop serves as a new base for Petrus Incredible...
Touch Wood Reclaim Wood from Eurovision 2023
We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to reclaim wood from the staging of Eurovision 2023. We have transformed the wood into a range of limited edition bespoke handmade products and gifts available to purchase from our Etsy. Every item created from the wood is...
Volunteers’ Week 2023
Volunteers' Week takes place 1-7 June every year. It’s our opportunity to recognise and celebrate the fantastic contribution that volunteers make to our organisation. We strive to make volunteering at Touch Wood as fun and rewarding as possible. Volunteers actively...
EMERGE Turns 25!
This year at EMERGE, we’re proudly celebrating our 25th anniversary. The EMERGE Group (our full name is East Manchester Environment & Resources Group Emerge) consists of FareShare Greater Manchester, Give and Gain, EMERGE Recycling and Touch Wood. Together we work...
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Which is more environmentally friendly? A real tree? An artificial one? How about one made from reclaimed wood? Each year there is debate online, with various sources citing different outcomes, favouring an opposing side of the argument. We’re going to try and address...
Building back better thanks to The National Lottery
We are thrilled to announce that the Social Enterprise Support Fund, distributed by Resonance, has given a £40,000 grant to Touch Wood to help the team ‘Building Back Better’ through and beyond COVID. As such, we are employing a Business Development consultant, and...
The more we take, the more we give
Spotted our new livery? With this simple strapline, the funky new design summarises what drives our social enterprise model aspirations. In a nutshell, the more material EMERGE Recycling can source for reuse…
Boosting Touch Wood!
One Manchester, a leading housing and community services provider in the region, takes social innovation seriously. Anton Shultz, Social Investment Manager at One Manchester, explains…
Food Matters!
EMERGE is thrilled to be working in an exciting new partnership with award winning food waste solutions specialists, Keenan Recycling, from bonny Scotland! A family business, Claire (pictured here with our Director, Lucy) and Grant Keenan are Scotland's biggest food...