There are lots of other places where people can access low cost and sometimes free furniture, we would always encourage people to try all the options below. The Furniture Recycling Project cannot furnish a whole house, it can provide up to three essential items only.
- Family and friends – do they have items they no longer need that are gathering dust in a garage?
- Facebook Marketplace
- Gumtree
- Freecycle
- Renewal NW - Stockport: An independent Christian charity, working with the long-term unemployed to break down barriers to employment
- British Heart Foundation – Stockport: Offering a vast range of pre-loved furniture, electricals and homeware.
- Stockport Credit Union - Providing immediate low-cost loans for essential items such as white goods.
- Clean Start - Trafford: Addresses wider social and economic issues, re-investing profits back into the community.
- Tree of Life – Wythenshawe: Providing valuable services to the community, from a furniture re-use shop to health and wellbeing sessions.
- The Mustard Tree – Manchester: A low-cost furniture distribution service, with vintage furniture, clothing, and white goods on sale too.
- Buttle Trust: Providing items for young people that their parents cannot necessarily afford.
- Children in Need – COVID 19 Grants: Grants for organisations working with young people in the community.
- Glasspool Trust grants for young people in crisis: Providing timely, one-off grants to individuals, couples, and families for everyday items.
