Spring clean: Clothes

Every week we are impressed by the commitment of our members to recycling everything they can, from paper to electronics, plastics to garden waste! Alongside filling up your recycling containers each week, there are a number of ways you can get creative with recycling to repurpose your old and unwanted things. With winter behind us […]

More local authorities adopt our community points model.

Jump’s ‘Community Points’ model for incentivising and engaging residents in waste and recycling is being increasingly adopted by local authorities. Torbay Council was the first local authority to adopt our Community Points model for their Torbay Green Points scheme, which was launched to all 66,000 Torbay households in July 2015. Since then, Peterborough City Council, […]

RBS innovation gateway

Successful Gateway innovation, Jump, launched at RBS Trinity Quay this week, spurring employees to come out in force and pledge their commitment to ‘go green’ for Bristol. Jump programme, one of the successful innovations chosen in the RBS Bristol Go Green Innovation Challenge, is an engagement and rewards programme which combines communication, rewards and the […]

Successfully engaging culturally diverse communities

Jump is continuing to expand, with new schemes launching across the UK: from St Helens in the North West, to Torbay in the South West, and Hammersmith & Fulham closer to our London headquarters. Enabling our schemes to succeed in culturally diverse areas can be challenging, particularly when planning and delivering door-to-door campaigns. Key to […]

Challenge yourself!

The New Year is now well under way and perhaps it’s time we all reviewed our resolutions. Are you doing well so far or do you think you could be doing better? In Hammersmith & Fulham, Jump have been providing an extra push to residents of 9,000 estate properties and are challenging them to recycle […]

Jump in.

Employee engagement is more relevant than ever. With millennials choosing their workplace based largely on corporate social responsibility and employee turnover on the rise, the importance of employee engagement cannot be overstated. Research clearly shows that when employee engagement is high, organisations prosper. Higher levels of employee engagement correspond with better performance and productivity, more […]

“Just One Thing” campaign can have a real impact on flats.

I am excited to see Recycle for London’s new ‘Just one thing’ campaign launched this week by the Mayor of London to boost recycling in the capital. Challenging Londoners to think of ‘Just One Thing’ they can do to improve their recycling could work particularly well for residents living in flats. Typically flats recycling rates lag well […]

Recycling rewards with a local focus

Love Peterborough, Love Your Community, a joint project between Peterborough City Council, Amey and Jump (Local Green Points) launched just over a week ago and already hundreds of residents have signed up to take part. The scheme reaches 35,000 homes in the seven wards of Eye, Thorney, Stanground, Hampton, East,Walton, Paston and North Bretton, which […]

Recycle Week 2015: Day 4

Recycling in the lounge  We’re coming to the end of Recycle Week 2015 and we’re onto our final room of the tour: the lounge. If you missed them, check out our posts about recycling in the kitchen and in the bathroom to make sure that you’re recycling all that you can around your home! Letters and […]

Recycle Week 2015: Day 3

Recycle Week 2015 – Recycling in the bathroom Welcome to day 3 of Recycle Week! We hope you’ve found the information we’ve provided you with so far useful – in case you missed it, check out these recycling facts and figures from day 1 and information about recycling in the kitchen from day 2! Today, we’re […]

Recycle Week 2015: Day 2

Recycling in the kitchen  Hands up if you have a recycling bin in your kitchen? Most of us do and most of us know exactly what we can and cannot put in it. Depending on what can be recycled in your area, though, there may be some key items that end up in your normal […]