The Furniture Station

Sainsbury’s charities of the year 2011/2012

editor — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:00:35 +0000

It has almost been a year since Sainsbury’s Hazel Grove chose The Furniture Station charity to work alongside The Wellspring as Sainsbury’s charities of the year 2011/2012. Amongst many local spectators, The Furniture Station joined the Sainsbury race showing their support at Stockport School in February, in which Sainsbury’s CEO himself Mr Justin King also ran.

Photographed from left is The Wellspring’s Fundraiser Peter Hodskinson, Sainsbury’ CEO Justin King, and Joanne Watson, our Fundraiser here at Furniture Station.

It has been a great year to work with Sainsbury’s and along side The Wellspring. Sainsbury’s have supported continuous fundraising for the Furniture Station with our very appealing (and demanding!) trolley tokens on sale at customer service, bag packing opportunities and collection boxes raising funds at tills.

Croftons Solicitors support the Furniture Station once again

editor — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:25:13 +0000

Croftons Solicitors have kindly supported the purchase and installation of a new PC for the Project Manager’s desk. With the previous PC being over 10 years old, it was time to be out with the old and in with the new, and assist the Furniture Station’s Project Manager, Alan Gunnion to manage the work of the Furniture Station more efficiently.

Jeff Palmer, Partner at Croftons Solicitors said “In an evolving world of technology, we are glad that we have been able to help The Furniture Station with the cost of updating their PC to enable them to continue in their fantastic work of helping others in the local community”

TTS Networks Limited worked alongside Croftons Solicitors with the gesture by kindly installing the PC & updating the software at the offices. Croftons Solicitors, being a long-term supporter of the Furniture Station’s work financially supported the purchase. This is not the first time TTS Networks and Croftons Solicitors have assisted the Furniture Station; The fundraiser’s computer was also replaced mid-2011 with the assistance of Croftons Solicitors & TTS Networks.

The Furniture Station continues to work alongside local organisations and businesses, in working together for the benefit of the community.

Funding for Cots and Beds Project

editor — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:28:36 +0000

The Furniture Station have updated their profile at The Big Give with the latest projects for 2012. You can now read more about our specific projects we are working with by clicking here .

The project we are currently launching is to help fund our latest bed and cot demand. It is due to health and safety reasons that we are limited to the number of beds we can accept from donors, and can only supply new cots. With a high demand for such essential items, there is a waiting list for those which do come in. We therefore need to seek funding to purchase new beds and cots for our clients. It costs just £65. 00 to purchase a single bed and £99. 00 for a double bed, cots are £110. Our minimum target for funding these items until December 31st is £7,000.

Case Study of Project: A new Start

‘I moved from the hostel to my new flat. All I felt like doing was curling up and sleeping. The Furniture Station arrived and not only did they bring me a new bed but a pack of bedding too. The feeling of clean sheets on a new bed will stay with me for a long time. I felt I’d been given a bit of a head start with a bit of help and comfort – I don’t honestly think I’d have stayed at my flat with no bed and bedding. Thanks to the Furniture Station I was given the start I needed.’ Sue, Stockport

Collecting up to Macclesfield to meet demand

editor — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:22:25 +0000

The Furniture Station is re-launching their campaign to encourage people from more local areas to call up to donate their unwanted furniture & electrical goods as to throwing them away and prevent them from ending up in landfill.

The Furniture Station collects unwanted furniture & electrical items from Stockport and outer areas.

Several years ago, the charity increased the collecting area to as far as Macclesfield, including areas of Tytherington, Poynton, Alderely Edge, Wilmslow, Prestbury and Adlington.

It is now re-lauching the awareness of collecting in these out of areas to encourage further donations of furniture & electrical items to meet the high demand in providing for families & individuals in need.

Any one wanting to donate their items to be collected free of charge from any of these areas can call 0161 456 0717 or request a collection through clicking here.

Bag Packing raises £296.87

editor — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:50:41 +0000

Thanks to a local youth club and volunteering adults, The Furniture Station raised almost £300 on Saturday 28th January with local friends generously taking a few hours out of their weekend to raise money for the charity by offering to pack customers bags at Hazel Grove Sainsbury’s. Including Hazel Grove Baptist Church’s youth group, almost 20 individuals joined the afternoon for 3 hours in the bag packing afternoon. Well done!

Recycle for Greater Manchester Project Launch

editor — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:05:06 +0000

Working in partnership with Recycle for Greater Manchester, The Furniture Station now welcomes collections of unwanted furniture donations at Adswood Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) for re-use to Stockport families and individuals in need.

Last Month, The Furniture Station’s Service Engineer, Phil Edge and Fundraiser Joanne Watson were joined by Councillor Neil Swannick and Councillor Chris Gordon at Adswood Road, to launch the project at the dedicated furniture container, which will now encourage people to re-use for the local community at the Adswood site.

2012 Calendars still on sale, get yours now!

editor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:58:58 +0000

Our 2012 Calendars taken of Stockport Scenery are still on sale; call 0161 483 9010 to order your copy now or email joanne.watson@furniturestation.org.uk . Alternatively calendars are currently available from The Furniture Station Office, Stockport Hat Works and Stockport Gallery at only £5.00 – pop in throughout Januray until the stock lasts!

Sainsbury’s donate Christmas Decorations

editor — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:35:59 +0000

Sainsbury’s Hazel Grove kindly donated a box full of Christmas wall decorations in time for decorating the Furniture Station and Hazel Grove Baptist Church so that our visitors and clients can expect a warm welcome this December.

The decorations are up and around Hazel Grove Baptist Church during December 2011.

Charity Dinner Success

editor — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:55:08 +0000

Friday 2nd December saw The Furniture Station hold their 3rd annual dinner at Edgeley Park this Christmas; amongst 140 guests in raising funds and awareness for the charity.

Croftons solicitors, Stockport College, Stockport Homes, Real Camera Co, HGBC, HGRC, The Wellspring, and many more joined the Furniture Station on the evening in contributing to such a warm atmosphere.

Sixteen Strings, a string quartet from HGBC performed sophisticated melodies, with Acoustic Duo; a local acoustic act singing out classic tunes to dessert. The evening ended with a DJ and got the room dancing to the fun evening.

£1,500 was raised on the night; with entertainment that included a spectacular raffle and silent auction.

It was a pleasure to have special guests The Worshipful the Mayor & Mayoress of Stockport , Cllr Les & Jackie Jones attend yet another one of our functions this year.

Everyone seemed to go away with a smile on their face!

A huge thank you go’s out to all those who attended and volunteered on the evening; without you the night would not have been. It was a pleasure to work with Cheshire Conference Centre, Edgeley Park yet again; thank you for your support.

Bringing Christmas Cheer to Local Families

editor — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:02:19 +0000

The Furniture Station and Stockport Homes Resettlement Services have teamed up with Housebuilder; Stuart Milne Homes to distribute gifts to local families across Stockport; ensuring children within disadvantaged families has a gift to open on Christmas day.

Stuart Milne Homes selected The Furniture Station as their giving Tree charity; where staff, residents and the local community within the Mill Green development are encouraged to donate gifts, toys and hampers in helping some of the community’s most vulnerable, low income families celebrate the festive holiday.

The Mill Green showroom is located at Strines, near Marple where the gifts are currently being collected Thursday -Monday; 10am – 5pm until 19th December.