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Ten Green Bottles
Location: Powys
Loan Amount: £40,000
Date: June 2009
A social enterprise in Powys, it creates innovative ways of re-using waste glass, and helps those excluded from the workplace through work placements, volunteering and qualifications. It received funding totalling £40,000 for new equipment and improving business skills.
Lorraine Powers, Managing Director of Ten Green Bottles:
"Charity Bank is different, and has given us the tools to become a sustainable business – it has helped us to fly and take our project to the next level. It has been an elegant and seamless process."