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Give It Don’t Bin It: For Students Living Off-campus

Donate your unwanted items… A single bag of donations could be worth as much as £14 Did you know you can easily donate your unwanted items to charity? There are 5 British Heart Foundation Collection Banks located off-campus in and around Fallowfield. You can donate your clothes, books, electricals, accessories, DVDs and CDs at anyContinue reading “Give It Don’t Bin It: For Students Living Off-campus”

Give It Don’t Bin It: For Students Living Off-campus

Donate your unwanted items… A single bag of donations could be worth as much as £14 Did you know you can easily donate your unwanted items to charity? There is over 15 British Heart Foundation Collection Banks located off-campus in and around Fallowfield. You can donate your clothes, books, electricals, accessories, DVDs and CDs atContinue reading “Give It Don’t Bin It: For Students Living Off-campus”

British Heart Foundation Supporters Day

Staff from across DSE (Residential & Sport Services along with SDCE) visited the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, to understand how monies raised from the Give It Don’t Bin It campaign are invested by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Give It Don’t Bin It (GIDBI) is an end of year reuse/recycling scheme which encourages students toContinue reading “British Heart Foundation Supporters Day”

Give It Don’t Bin It So Far…

Since 2012 your donations have raised the equivalent of £1.3 million for the British Heart Foundation. Last year students… Donated 211 tonnes of items which could have raised up to £376,005 to help support lifesaving research. The equivalent of 4000 meals was also donated to Manchester Central Foodbank. This funded… 52 Heartstart schemes 530 defibrilatorsContinue reading “Give It Don’t Bin It So Far…”

Bag Packing Day

‘Give It Don’t Bin It‘ is a student move-out collection and recycling campaign. Every year thousands of students move out and we are encouraging them to make their move count by donating unwanted items. This is a partnership campaign between Manchester Student Homes, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester and Manchester City Council which raisesContinue reading “Bag Packing Day”

Chartered Institute of Waste Management Awards 2017

The Give It, Don’t Bin It project which was run in partnership with The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester City Council and the British Heart Foundation was handed the Best Reuse and Waste Prevention Project award by the Chartered Institute of Waste Management. The project helped encourage the city’s student community to donateContinue reading “Chartered Institute of Waste Management Awards 2017”

Give It Don’t Bin It – 2017

Manchester Student Homes (MSH) has been working with the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester City Council in delivering the Give It Don’t Bin It campaign in support of the British Heart Foundation and Manchester Central Foodbank. The campaign aims to recycle and reuse unwanted items of clothing and food from studentsContinue reading “Give It Don’t Bin It – 2017”

Guardian University Awards

Manchester Student Homes were runners-up at The Guardian University Awards last night. Up for the Sustainability Award, Manchester Student Homes was nominated for its role in British Heart Foundation’s ‘Give it…Don’t bin it’ campaign. Working closely with colleagues from The University of Manchester, Manchester City Council and British Heart Foundation, Manchester Student Homes helped raise £230,000Continue reading “Guardian University Awards”