Just to clarify a few of the above points about The Community Furniture Project (Newbury):
We are a registered charity (no. 1082243), also running the Community Re-use Centre at New Greenham Park, the Community Furniture Project (Basingstoke) and the Growing Together Project at Kingsclere.
As well as running the furniture projects, we offer support and accredited training in practical skills to over 300 volunteers and trainees a year. We have volunteers from all backgrounds, many of them requiring high levels of support due to disabilities, learning difficulties, mental health issues or young people with behavioural issues. The income derived from our furniture sales only covers 60% of the cost of all the services we offer - we are not a profit making business.
Unfortunately, we are not able to accept some items that are kindly offered to us. This is for a variety of reasons, including: - Trading Standards regulations, which say we are unable to pass on any items of unholstered furniture (sofas, mattresses etc) that do not have a specified label stating they meet fire safety regulations - items need to be in good clean condition to pass on - although we repair items when we can, we do not always have the time, skills or tools to do so, particularly in the case of large items of unholstered furniture. - we sometimes have a lack of storage space where we have a surfeit of particularly large items eg sideboards
We do always do our best to take items where we can (and through this divert over 644 tonnes of furniture, household and electrical items from landfill!)
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