EMERGE Touch Wood

Looking for a job which would have a real impact? Check this out 👇

We helped rewild the grounds of Fairfield Hospital in Bury 🌿 Plants, insects and birds have benefitted alongside patients, staff and visitors to the hospital.
Read the full story here:
🔗 touchwood.org.uk/rewilding-fairfield-hospital
#rewilding #greenhealthcare #touchwood

Touch Wood Volunteer Spotlight – Ben Fairhurst | Touch Wood Touch Wood Volunteer Spotlight – Ben Fairhurst at Touch Wood, for waste wood recycling services.

Volunteering at Touch Wood isn’t just fulfilling—it’s a springboard. Just ask Ben Fairhurst. 👏
Now on an apprenticeship with Wigan Council!
Full story 👇
www.touchwood.org.uk/touch-wood-v...
#SkillsInAction #TouchWood #Volunteering #CareerDevelopment #VolunteerSpotlight #CareerInWoodwork

Timber triumph as Touchwood gets new base A Manchester-based social enterprise has received a brand-new facility to boost its training and recycling efforts. Touchwood, which repurposes unwanted timber… | North West | Construction | Charity |...

This development really will be a "Timber Triumph"! We can't wait until it's finished and helping add value to everything we do here, training volunteers, creating pathways to employment into construction & supporting the housing growth ambitions of Greater Manchester!

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@emergerecycling.bsky.social & Touch Wood are proud to be a community cooperative (aka Community Benefit Society). Owned by our 130 members who are committed to building a fairer, more sustainable economy & environment.
Join us 👉https://www.emergerecycling.co.uk/share-offer/
#IYC2025 #CoopFortnight

Check out this brilliant upcycling project using unwanted pallets created by our talented Touch Wood team. Get in touch if you would like some bespoke indoor or outdoor furniture making! 📞0161 223 8200 or email info@touchwood.org.uk

As a shareholder, how will your investment be used?
* With marketing & sales campaigns, to promote the real 3Rs, through @emergerecycling.bsky.social services, across GM & Liverpool
* Make our shop more accessible so clients can access more wood. Check out our plans 👇
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#SHARE2EMERGE

🌳 Why reclaimed wood? It’s seasoned, stable and full of character.
🔨 We have a wide range of timber in our workshop just waiting for your Bank Holiday DIY project this weekend.
☎️0161 223 8200
#DIYWithTouchWood #ReclaimedWood #Sustainability #DIY #TouchWood #EcoFriendly #Upcycling #ZeroWaste

Here at Touch Wood we are proud to be a certified #LivingWageEmployer, and celebrate over three years of accreditation.

What does this mean?
• We are publicly committed to #FairPay
• We are certified by @livingwageuk.bsky.social
• We give annual pay increases linked to the cost of living

SPRING INTO VOLUNTEERING! Volunteer with FareShare! FareShare Greater Manchester needs volunteer drivers to help get much-needed food to charities and community groups across Greater Manchester. If you can regularly spare a few hours a week, are aged 25 or over, with a clean driver's licence (or maximum of 3 points), we'd love to hear from you! For more information, please email voladmin@emergemanchester.co.uk or call 0161 223 8200 (option 6).

SPRING INTO VOLUNTEERING!
Volunteer with FareShare!
@faresharegm.bsky.social needs volunteer drivers to help get food to community groups.
If you're aged 25+, with a clean driver's licence (or max 3 points), we'd love to hear from you!
E: voladmin@emergemanchester.co.uk
T: 0161 223 8200 (option 6)

🌳At Touch Wood, we believe every piece of wood has a story — and reclaiming wood gives it a second chapter. Every time you choose reclaimed, you’re not just building something beautiful & you’re helping build a more sustainable future. Join us in making conscious choices. www.touchwood.org.uk

It was a thrill to produce the awards for this event using reclaimed wood and celebrating the brilliance of community impact organisations! Congratulations to all the finalists! #SustainableTrohpy #CommunityImpact

☀️Get Your Garden Ready for Summer! It’s the perfect time to update your outdoor space.
🌷Our handcrafted garden furniture & planters, made from reclaimed wood, bring beauty, sustainability, and character to your garden. Let’s make your outdoor space green in more ways than one! #Sustainability

Reclaimed, reimagined, returned: from tree protectors to planters for Dunham Massey | Touch Wood Reclaimed, reimagined, returned: from tree protectors to planters for Dunham Massey at Touch Wood, for waste wood recycling services.

♻️ A full-circle story from Dunham Massey 🌳
Read how tree protectors from the
@nationaltrust.bsky.social Dunham Massey estate were used to build planters for an education project back there👇 touchwood.org.uk/reclaimed-re...
#CircularEconomy #ReclaimedWood #AccessibleGardening

🌿 Wondering what to do next weekend? Why not join us for our next EMERGE & Touch Wood Gardening Club and Open Day?
♻Come along and find out more about what we do here as we put the Real 3Rs into practice. 10-2:30 on Saturday 15th March
#Real3Rs #Sustainability #EMERGERecycling #TouchWood

Did you know we have apprenticeships here at Touch Wood? Want to find out more about what we do? Please check out our latest blog post: www.touchwood.org.uk/national-app...
#NAW2025 #Apprenticeships

We’re thrilled to be supporting National Apprenticeship Week! We’re shining a spotlight on our inspirational apprentices at Touch Wood.
Apprenticeships offer learning on the job and skills for life. We are proud to have apprentices working with us here at Touch Wood.
#NAW2025

📣Call out to Community Shareholders - why not join us for our Gardening Club and Open Day on Saturday? 10am - 1 for raised bed building and filling then homemade soup lunch & open day from 1 until 3pm.🌷🌼

Another great podcast episode from our sister organisation in the EMERGE Collective, FareShare Greater Manchester. Please give it a listen to hear how corporate partnerships are helping to support vital work saving good-to-eat surplus food from going to waste and fighting food insecurity.

🗓New year, new plans? Why not start #sustainable and kick start the year by giving old timber a new lease of life? From corporate wellbeing spaces to bug hotels, bird boxes and planters for your own garden, we can help you make your outside space a great place to be! #Manchester #Local #Ethical

How do we employ the real 3Rs in Touch Wood?
Join us as a community shareholder and support the work we do at Touch Wood.

See the full details about the share offer here 👇
www.emergerecycling.co.uk/share-offer/

#Real3Rs #RealRecycling #WoodRecycling #WoodReuse #LandfillReduction #Share2EMERGE

🍏Are you passionate about reducing food waste and food poverty & looking for a new challenge for the New Year? Our busy warehouse team is hiring a Food Allocations Coordinator. For a full job description 👇
www.faresharegm.org.uk/careers/
#Careers #CharityWork #CommunityImpact

Since the last EMERGE share offer in 2022, Touch Wood has rescued 1280 tonnes of wood from construction & other sites. Help us make an even bigger impact by investing in the 2nd @emergerecycling.bsky.social share offer 👇
www.emergerecycling.co.uk/share-offer/
#touchwood #recycling #shareoffer

♻️Since 2022 we’ve helped avoid at least 3,114 tonnes of CO2 emissions by recycling & reusing valuable resources. Help us increase the amount of valuable resources we divert from landfill & incineration, by investing in our second share offer👇
emergerecycling.co.uk/share-offer/
#EcoFriendly

We heard recently that we’ve been granted £5000 to improve the outside space at our HQ from the #TRUCommunityFund. Recently, we hosted a visit from @thetrupgrade.bsky.social who came to see the area that'll be improved. We'll be building raised beds for fruit and veg & bird boxes for the garden.