Become a Champion

Champions

International Resources and Recycling Institute (IRRI) is a crusading, cause-based environmental charity which is now looking for organisations sympathetic to its cause. If your organisation is sympathetic, then you can join IRRI now. IRRI is making membership available to organisations like yours, and is calling you its Champions. This signifies the support you are providing to IRRI’s cause. It shows that you champion the same cause.

What is IRRI’s cause?

IRRI’s cause is the world’s resources.

Wherever you look today, you hear a story of despair. The world is running out. The world is running out of food, the world is running out of water, the world is running out of energy, and now the world is running out of money.

IRRI is active in seeking innovations that will help accelerate the theory and practice of resource use. IRRI believes there are solutions to be found, that we will only find them by working together, in collaboration, not in confrontation, and that we will find them if we believe positively that they are there to be found, rather than allow the prophets of doom to convince us that we are all too late.

So IRRI exists to link the public and private sectors to the academic sector on an international basis in partnerships that address new and unexplored routes towards more effective and equitable resource use.

IRRI is crusading for more balanced resource use for all of us.

What is IRRI doing?

IRRI is an institute which engages in European partnerships exploring new ideas and thinking in a variety of projects concerned with renewable energy, water management and recycling. IRRI has now started to apply its knowledge in a series of activities which give practical life to its learning and expertise gained from its projects. Hence IRRI’s actions are:

1. International Partnership projects, in which IRRI engages on innovation within different resource use issues. Subjects vary, but all relate to aspects of water, waste, recycling, energy, food, green technology and the green economy. These projects tend to be dominated by knowledge exchange and knowledge development, and hence have a greater theoretical content, although the theoretical development always has a practical context.
2. Practical Application of IRRI initiatives at grass roots level. IRRI is using its unusual achievements in European partnerships to do something new and exciting in the community:

• Learning
• Demonstration
• Innovation

Under the Learning heading, IRRI is establishing a series of training and events programmes that help organisations and individuals transform theory into practice. This provides learning and understanding through programmes built on the knowledge and experience of the IRRI project work.

Under the Demonstration heading, IRRI undertakes demonstration projects that transform theory into practice. IRRI’s project work to date has developed a strong foundation in the use of water, energy and waste. Now demonstration projects are bringing these to life.

Under the Innovation heading, IRRI helps organisations in the Green economy transform innovation theory into practice. IRRI has already worked with a variety of innovations which are now being given a practical commercial basis.

In order to reflect the different types of action, IRRI has created a centre, the Applied Resources Centre (ARC).

ARC applies the knowledge gained in the Institute to practical initiatives in the community. ARC builds the bridge from theory into practice. These activities are provided with a branding that distinguishes them from core IRRI activities.

Why become an IRRI Champion?

Your support will allow us to multiply our own resources that we can then apply to some of the world’s most serious resource issues. We aim to combine public and private monies to increase the scope, depth and impact of what we do.

Your support will allow you to participate in the actions that we undertake, those actions that might match the objectives of your organisation.

Your support will enhance the benefits that the community derives from the actions of IRRI.

You support will also provide you with the opportunity to show the world that you support this cause and these actions. You will be offered the chance to sponsor activities that suit the specific profile of your organisation

What does it cost to become a Champion?

General support - If you would like to be a general supporter of IRRI and ARC, there are three levels of contribution per annum. We leave it to you to decide how much you can afford. These three levels are £500, £1000 and £2000.

Specific support - As mentioned above, if you would like to support one of our specific brands or activities, or a specific project, the level of financial sponsorship is for discussion, each project being different. There will however be a minimum of £5,000 contribution.

Participation - Participation in certain events, such as the International Study Visits, is available at the prices specified in each case.

In order to apply to become a Champion of International Resources and Recycling Institute, complete and return this form, with payment in one of the methods indicated, to the above address or it can be scanned and submitted electronically to info@irri.org.uk.

Link to IRRI Champions Form document.

IRRI Champions Form