News

Our main targets for 2010 are as follows:

• To get funding towards a new collection/delivery vehicle to help increase the amount of Collections/Deliveries that we can do.
• Increase furniture beneficiaries – by 15% from 77 people per month to 89 people per month.
• Increase home collections – by 15% from 89 collections per month to 102 collections per month.
• To get funding for a small office space to provide warmth, shelter and somewhere to eat - We want to introduce a new Warehouse Volunteer team which will provide more opportunities for people to train in warehousing and gain work experience. We will need this office space to meet Health and Safety requirements. This will also increase our capacity to collect and deliver more furniture into the future.
• To get funding towards a new stock control system
• We have been consulting with our beneficiaries, asking them what other services we could provide and have been networking with other organisations to explore partnership working to deliver other services.
  

Our results for 2009 are as follows:

• 927 individuals and families in need have been helped with low cost furniture (699 for 2009). 33% increase in the same period last year. This includes people who are:
• Homeless   - Fleeing Domestic Violence   - Leaving Care   - Registered Disabled
• 3012 furniture items were reused and provided to people in need instead of going to landfill sites. (2682 for the same period last year). 12% increase on last year.
• 15 young people, on work experience placements, have received extensive on job training in either areas of warehousing; or office administration & customer service skills.
• 4 people have found employment who were previously volunteering or on work experience placements.
• 170 agencies registered so that their clients could use Revive’s services and are able to refer their clients to Revive (11 new agencies in 2009).
• We reused 73.5 Tons of furniture, which equates to saving 206 Tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions.
• 3206 items of furniture have been collected free of charge from local residents (2873 for the same period last year). 7% increase on last year.