The Community Furniture Store on Mount View Business Park is growing with a major relaunch of the store’s offering today.
Community Furniture Store is a registered charity that collects unwanted furniture and household goods donated by residents of Scarborough District who no longer want them and then sell the items at low prices. People on means tested benefits get an additional discount of 30% on the already low prices. The goods are sold in order to help cover operational costs.
The team will be reopening an expanded store in Scarborough today featuring a larger sales floor and a streamlined layout.
Manager, Alice Pimm, explains
“Our purpose is simply to help local people have affordable, good quality, furniture in their homes. We collect items from all around the Scarborough area, including Whitby, and even collect as far as Bridlington and inland towards Malton. We offer a huge choice of household items from sofas and chairs to tables, desks and beds; we also offer white goods and occasionally one-off items. We recently had a bath donated!”
Rebecca Blues is the Chief Officer of a group of three charities who are based in Scarborough, Selby & York and she says
“The team in Scarborough have worked extremely hard over the past few months to improve the store and provide a great choice for everyone. Our service is even more necessary today given the impact of the rapid increases in the cost of living. Furniture poverty is already a national scandal with many families not able to provide a decent home environment. We can make sure that families have proper beds to sleep on, and tables to eat their food from.”
Graham Mitchell, Chair of Trustees, adds
“Following our investment in obtaining extra space we will now be able to offer a better shopping experience and an even greater choice from our stock of furniture & household items on our hugely expanded sales floor. Whilst our prime objective is to help people in need, we are open to anyone who wants a bargain as we need to generate an income in order to cover the charity’s operational costs.”
“Because of the extra space, we are also able to offer more work experience places in our furniture workshop, which has relocated to another unit on the same site, and we will be increasing volunteering opportunities soon when we expand collection and delivery services.”
Graham also adds
“We rely on donations of furniture from people and businesses in order to provide a great range of goods on the shop floor. We collect items free of charge, but they must be fit for others to use. By asking us to collect unwanted items you will not only be preventing items from going to landfill but also directly helping local people to have better homes”.
The charity closed the store on Wednesday to make preparations for the reopening at 09:30 this morning (Saturday 10th September)
Alice adds
“This is not just a chance to see what all our hard work over the last few months has created in-store, but also a chance to get to know us and what we do for the community.”
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