Other Furniture Reuse Organisations

• Tree of Life in Wythenshawe operates a high quality furniture project as well as being a community centre. 0161 437 7623. info@treeoflifecentre.org.uk

• Mustard Tree is a Christian Charity for the homeless in Manchester. They provide food, clothes, advocacy, translation, basic household equipment and furniture. 0161 228 7331.

• Furniture Re-use Network has a directory of furniture reuse projects in the UK.

If you have bulky items that we cannot take then your local council can dispose of them for you. Some councils may charge for this service.

• Emerge Recycling is a not for profit community business specialising in performing recycling collections for household and office waste throughout Manchester.

• Fairfield Materials Management is a social enterprise operating in Manchester who divert thousands of tonnes of fruit and veg waste away from landfill, and convert it into a meat-free, vegan friendly compost!

• Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL) enables people to live more sustainably by visiting them at home and giving simple, practical advice. They also put people in touch with each other so that they can find local solutions to local problems. AfSL is a not-for-profit organisation, and currently provides these services in Chorlton, Hulme and Old Trafford. 0845 456 4468.

• The Community Recycling Network is a national body that represents and promotes the 3Rs (reducing, reusing and recycling) voluntary/community sector.

• Firmstart (Mcr) Ltd provide affordable managed workspace & meeting facilities based at St Wilfrid's Enterprise Centre [converted church], off Royce Road, Hulme M15 5BJ. 0161 227 9889

• Hulme Community Garden Centre works in the community to promote gardening, sustainability, organic horticulture, & biodiversity, and provides volunteering opportunities, training, community projects, as well as running a nursery which sells plants (everything for the garden), with excellent expert advice at hand; a great place just to visit.

• Wesley staff who cycle, use and recommend Edinburgh Cycles on Oxford Road as a really good local bike shop, and it has some fantastic bikes. But with our cycle project we signpost customers there as it is a cooperative and shares a lot of our environmental values - and, indeed, provides us with some second-hand bikes & parts; we can rescue, recycle & reuse/put together bikes so that they are road legal, working, safe etc., but recommend Edinburgh for good, cheap servicing and great customer care & advice for the longer-term.

• The Phone Co-op are ethical telephone and broadband providers. 0845 458 9070

• Recycle IT are a not-for-profit organisation that recycles & reuses computer equipment, and provides training, work experience & jobs.

• Climate Care organises carbon offsetting (turning carbon consumption into environmental projects).

• Green Energy are the best energy-suppliers for greener (renewably sourced) power for homes & businesses (and supply Wesley).

• Tree Aid is a charity that works to promote poverty relief, self-sufficiency, environmental benefit, and biodiversity & land-reclamation.
  

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