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Season's Greetings and a peaceful and prosperous New Year to all.  

Veolia and ReStore furnished for success

An enterprising partnership between Haringey Council’s recycling and waste management provider Veolia Environmental Services and furniture reuse scheme ReStore Community Projects has been officially launched today (Thursday 24 November).

The partnership will see Veolia initially divert to ReStore up to 30 collections of good quality reusable or recyclable items of furniture a week from Haringey residents who request their free collection via the Veolia Haringey Contact Centre.

ReStore then sell on the items from their site in Tottenham back to the community, using a two-tier pricing structure that makes items very affordable for those from low-income families.

Speaking at the event, Councillor Nilgun Canver, Haringey Council’s Cabinet Member for the Environment, said: “It is a great pleasure to officially launch the great partnership between ReStore, Veolia and Haringey Council.  ReStore is a very positive scheme for the residents of Haringey; not only does it support families in hardship, but it also promotes sustainability and reuse, helping us become a more sustainable Haringey. I look forward to the partnership developing.”

Fabrice Bouchon, Veolia’ regional manager, commented: “At Veolia we feel it is very important to engage with community organisations and with ReStore we have found a mutually beneficial relationship.  Not only do we help them in terms of diverting and delivering items to them, but we also offer our staff the opportunity to spend a paid half a day volunteering with ReStore, as part of our company’s commitment to its staff to allow them all the opportunity to give something back to their community in this way.”

ReStore’s general manager, Nadeem Razvi, added: “Our partnership with Veolia will enable us to expand our role in the local community enabling us to support more residents through volunteering opportunities and a greater number of items available to buy.”

Guardian Public Service Awards

ReStore Community Projects and the Forest Recycling Project (in partnership with LB Waltham Forest), have been shortlisted under the Housing and Regeneration category for the Guardian Public Service Awards - for their Ascham Homes partnership. The results will be released on the 22nd November, so keep your fingers crossed.
From the Guardian.

Saturday Openings

We are trialling Saturday openings so during October and November we will be open between 10am and 3pm

Photos of Sale Items

To see photos of some of the many items in our 1 month 50% off sale...go to our web site : http://www.restorecommunityprojects.org/news_blog.php#whats_in_store
and check out whats in store.

New website launches

We're delighted to announce the launch of our brand new web site this morning!

Located at: http://www.restorecommunityprojects.org/index.php

The website was designed and created for us by Bay Interactive in California, and we'd like to thank them for their support and assistance.

Our ambition for the web site was that it presents, in a clear, simple and concise manner, what ReStore does, with whom, and how to access our services. We are excited about the opportunity to use social media to highlight our activites and be able to reach more people; this blog will be updated regularly, so keep coming back and take a look at what we're up to.

To commerate the launch of the web site we are having a 50% off selected items sale for the next 30 days....Many great reuse items of furniture are now available at half price...and remember, our "normal" sale price is incredibly low anyway.

I and the team look forward to welcoming you to the Project in the near future.

NR

ReStore

We’re rather excited here at ReStore as this year we are celebrating 21 years of the project being open, we have helped 1000’s of people over the years and we are looking forward to continue at what we do best.

We have just launched this new website and to celebrate the launch and the 21 years of being open we have decided to have a month long sale starting on the Monday19^th September to Wednesday 19^th October 2011 (onselected items)

Premier Sustain & ReStore partnership increasing furniture reuse.

ReStore are becoming one of Premier Sustain’s key charity and social enterprise partners, helping them deliver sustainable office clearance services for their clients.

Premier Sustain, a division of Premier Moves, has developed in response to the growing needs for environmentally sound and socially responsible office clearance services.  Premier Sustain help clients avoid sending unwanted furniture to landfill through a range of services including: furniture refurbishment, furniture resale and donation through the “Giving Back Project”.    Furniture from a range of clients and project has already been delivered and gratefully received by ReStore.

About Us

ReStore Community Projects is a registered charity which recycles and reuses domestic furniture and appliances for the benefit of people in need.

Our key objectives are:

• To provide good quality low cost furniture and appliances
• To provide training and employment opportunities, in particular those who are or have been homeless or those with other social needs
• To help the environment through the reuse and recycling of furniture & appliances