The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) has announced the 24 winners of this year’s Scholarship Programme.
Funded by compliance providers Wastepack and Electrolink, the programme enables local authority waste and recycling officers to learn about local authority waste practices at the two-day LARAC Conference (15-16 October) at the East Midlands Conference Centre, attend the LARAC Celebration Awards for free, and take part in a seminar with LARAC Executive members the evening before.
LARAC Chief Executive Officer Lee Marshall said the eleventh programme was oversubscribed, with the standard of entries being ‘very high’.
He added: “It is great that Wastepack and Electrolink have supported the Scholarship Programme for another year, and this has allowed 24 local authority officers to attend the LARAC Conference for the first time.
“Each year the scholars bring energy and ideas to the conference and leave having said how much the experience has been of value to them.”
The 2014 scholars will write about their experiences of the LARAC Conference in the winter edition of the Loop magazine.
The winners are:
- Amy Bridgford, Oxford City Council
- Richard Brooks, Lincolnshire County Council
- Robert Cameron, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
- Julie Cannings, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
- Ann-Marie Cox, Fermanagh District Council
- Claire Davies, Suffolk County Council
- Simone Dolby, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Andrew Drinkell, North East Lincolnshire Council
- Brian Drummond, Gateshead Council
- Graeme Fyvie, Aberdeenshire Council
- Alice George, Cardiff City Council
- Samantha Gibbons, West London West Authority
- Gemma Green, South Bucks District Council
- Stephen Grimes, Armagh Council
- Laura Harmer, North East Lincolnshire Council
- Shaun Jackson, Rushcliffe Borough Council
- Clair Moore, North Lincolnshire Council
- Thea Radburn, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
- Charlotte Ross, Cardiff City Council
- Charlotte Secker, North Hertfordshire District Council
- Emma Selfe, Aberdeenshire Council
- Matt Smith, Cheshire West and Chester Council
- Anthony Veal, Westminster City Council
- Chris Wilson, Gateshead Council
Find out more about the LARAC Conference 2014.
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