About us

Welcome to FrowResource. As of April 1st 2025 FrowResource is a fully registered charity created to support the community of Forest Row in achieving zero-waste by using visionary yet tried and tested progressive recycling strategies to rethink our consumption, our relationship with things we no longer need and our relationship with the planet.

Simply put FrowResource will process donations of specific types of unwanted material and will promote entrepreneurial and educational activities to support the reduction, recycling, recovering, up-cycling, re-using, repairing and re-gifting of unwanted materials that have not yet reached their end of life and can be usable in some form.  

For the village, FrowResource will fill most of the gap left by the tip closure, enable residents to responsibly remove unwanted materials that have probably been accumulating in their homes, by giving them a local option for managing unwanted materials.

Additionally, the inclusion of a community shop will fill the gap left by the closure of the very successful Charity Shop in the village.  

FrowResource will lead by example to create a community where residents will not only tread lightly with their waste footprint, develop skills and opportunities in the village and also promote the wellbeing of the planet through their enterprise.  

By learning from others already on this journey FrowResource will strive to become a leader that promotes its success and offers its model for replication in other communities both nationally and internationally.  

The critical aims of this venture for the community:

  1. To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by the promotion of waste reduction through reuse and reclamation of recycled products and materials which would otherwise be deemed to have reached the end of their useful life

  2. To raise awareness and advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by encouraging best practice in the recycling and management of waste

  3. To promote the advancement of community development through volunteering and community capacity building.

The volunteer Trustees  of FrowResource CIO are in the process of increasing but currently comprise Kate Taylor-Smith, Patricia Patterson-Vanegas and Phil Rogers.

To contact Frow Resource please email admin@frowresource.org.uk

Registered charity number: 1211308