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Accepted from AfC because recognition such as The Queens Award seem to raise it above the normal local recycling company. However, there is danger of confusing the commercial company with the charity of the same name, Recycling Lives UK, and there may be a little work needed to disentangle the two. Sionk (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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Edit request: lead update, founding history, leadership and recognition (COI declared)

Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. Some or all of the changes may be promotional in tone.

Conflict of interest declaration: I am Steven Jackson OBE, the founder of Recycling Lives. I have made a full conflict of interest disclosure on my user page at User:Maperouze. Per WP:COI I am not editing the article directly. I am posting the proposed updates below for independent editors to consider. Every proposed change is supported by independent secondary sources and by the public record at Companies House.

The current article is materially out of date. The most significant issues are:

It still describes me as the company's "current chief executive". I stepped down as Chairman of the group in October 2020 and exited the group fully in 2020, selling all my shares in the commercial entities and resigning as trustee and member of the charity. I have had no role with the brand since.
It gives a turnover figure of approximately £25 million and an employee count of around 200, both of which had grown substantially by 2018–2019.
It omits the company's third and fourth Queen's Awards for Enterprise, the EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year award (2019), the 2018 Three Hills Capital Partners investment, and the 2020 leadership transition.
The founding chronology can be tightened with reference to Companies House: the charity entity (Recycling Lives Charity, Companies House 05781363) was incorporated on 13 April 2006; the integrated social-enterprise model that the press most commonly dates to 2008 was the consolidation of the charity with the commercial recycling business.

Proposed change 1: Lead paragraph

Current text:

"Recycling Lives Limited is a British recycling and waste management company headquartered in Preston, Lancashire... [Steven Jackson, OBE and current chief executive, founded the company]."

Proposed text:

"Recycling Lives is a British social-enterprise group combining a commercial recycling and waste management business with a registered charity supporting ex-offenders and people experiencing homelessness, headquartered in Preston, Lancashire. The group's charity entity, Recycling Lives Charity, was incorporated on 13 April 2006,^[1] and the integrated social-enterprise model under which the commercial business funded the charity's work was launched in 2008. The group was founded by Steven Terence Jackson OBE, who exited the group fully in 2020. By 2018 the group reported sales of £75 million and pre-tax profits of £7.3 million,^[2] employing approximately 400 staff across 19 sites nationally, of whom around 40 per cent were ex-offenders.^[2]^[3] Recycling Lives has received four Queen's Awards for Enterprise across the Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity categories, and its founder was named EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019.^[4]"

Proposed change 2: New "Recognition" section

Add a new section after "Charity":

==Recognition==

Recycling Lives has received four Queen's Awards for Enterprise:

2010 — Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development^[5]
2014 — Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development^[5]
2018 — Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade^[5]
2019 — Queen's Award for Enterprise: Promoting Opportunity through Social Mobility^[5]

The group's founder, Steven Terence Jackson, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to employment and the community in Lancashire,^[6]^[7] and was named EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year in November 2019, going on to represent the United Kingdom at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year final in Monaco in 2020.^[2]^[4]

Proposed change 3: New "Investment, founder exit and leadership transition" subsection

Add to the company history section:

===Investment, founder exit and leadership transition (2018–2020)===

In late 2018, the private equity firm Three Hills Capital Partners invested more than £50 million for a 21 per cent stake in Recycling Lives.^[2] In October 2020, founder Steven Jackson stepped down as Chairman and chief executive William Fletcher MBE also departed; Andrew Hodgson, formerly head of finance for manufacturing at BAE Systems Samlesbury, was appointed executive chairman.^[3]^[8] Jackson exited the group fully in 2020, selling all of his shares in the commercial entities and resigning as trustee and member of the charity.

References to add

<ref name="FT2019">{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Sarah |title=Recycling Lives founder wins EY entrepreneur award |url=https://www.ft.com/content/fe2c7c2e-d89d-11e9-9c26-419d783e10e8 |work=Financial Times |date=8 November 2019 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="BBC2012">{{cite news |title=New Year Honours: MBE for stabbed nurse Jane Clough's mother |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-20859652 |work=BBC News |date=29 December 2012 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="LetsRecycle2013">{{cite news |title=OBE for Recycling Lives founder Steve Jackson |url=https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/obe-for-recycling-lives-founder-steve-jackson/ |work=letsrecycle.com |date=2 January 2013 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="LEP2020">{{cite news |title=Chairman Steve stands aside at award-winning Preston recycling business |url=https://www.lep.co.uk/business/chairman-steve-stands-aside-at-award-winning-preston-recycling-business-3007726 |work=Lancashire Evening Post |date=19 October 2020 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="LBV2020">{{cite news |title=Steven Jackson steps down as chairman of Recycling Lives |url=https://www.lancashirebusinessview.co.uk/latest-news-and-features/steven-jackson-steps-down-as-chairman-of-recycling-lives |work=Lancashire Business View |date=October 2020 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="BusinessLancs2019">{{cite news |title=Recycling Lives' founder named UK's Entrepreneur of the Year |url=https://www.businesslancashire.co.uk/2019/11/11/recycling-lives-founder-named-uks-entrepreneur-of-the-year/ |work=Business Lancashire |date=11 November 2019 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="Downtown2019">{{cite news |title=Recycling Lives wins fourth Queen's Award |url=https://downtowninbusiness.com/news/members-news/2019/04/24/recycling-lives-wins-fourth-queens-award/ |work=Downtown in Business |date=24 April 2019 |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

<ref name="CH05781363">{{cite web |title=Recycling Lives Charity, company number 05781363 |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05781363 |publisher=Companies House |access-date=21 May 2026}}</ref>

I am happy to respond to questions about any of these proposed changes here on the Talk page. Thanks to any reviewing editor for considering. Maperouze (talk) 10:04, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Maperouze:, I will allow another editor to review your third request, but the first two are promotional. The first has tone issues as it is written in a manner that promotes the charity. The second is a list of awards that are industry or governmental awards. We try to avoid these for company pages. --CNMall41 (talk) 20:20, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Partly done: Third request was partially implemented by me. History is edited without a standalone subsection as not needed, honorifics are not included and it is unclear whether Andrew Hodgson was formerly executive chairman or appointed as executive chairman now. Unsourced statement excluded.

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Edit request: lead update, founding history, leadership and recognition (COI declared)

Proposed change 1: Lead paragraph

Proposed change 2: New "Recognition" section

Proposed change 3: New "Investment, founder exit and leadership transition" subsection

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