Restore Community Projects was previously known as the Kings Cross Furniture Project. We started life as an offshoot of the Kings Cross Homelessness Project, taking up a small space in their premises; offering furniture to their clients. As the demand for reuse furniture grew, we became an independent organisation in our own right on 29/3/1996, and moved into our own premises.

We stayed in the area of Kings Cross when the end of 2000, When the redevelopment of Kings Cross meant we had to relocate. We then moved to Tottenham, and to reflect both our new location and the diversification of our activities, we changed our name to ReStore Community Projects. We are a registered charity (no. 1054645) and a company limited by guarantee (no. 3180496). We receive no direct grants from central or local government, but are funded by a combination of self-generated income from the retail sale of our collected items, revenue for providing services to local authorities, and grants from charitable trusts.

ReStore are currently involved in an exciting new project – The London Reuse Network. This is a £8m pan-London reuse and recycling service which has been set up by the London Community Resource Network, and funded by LWaRB (London Waste and Recycling Board). This scheme will promote reuse across London and will fund projects to work together in geographical “clusters” to increase reuse, refurbishment, repair and recycling in London of a wide range of materials.

ReStore are recipients of funding which will enable us to invest in infrastructure and capacity building to set up new refurbishment and recycling processes which in turn will create employment opportunities and greatly increase reuse in North London. We are working closely with our current cluster partners; Barnet Furniture Centre, Forest Recycling, Bright Sparks, St Vincent De Paul and look forward to welcoming more partners in the future. The ability to enhance our capability to take on paid for contract work with local authorities, housing associations and tenant managed organisations will mean that we will in the future, be financially self-sufficient and will no longer have to rely on grant funding.

This innovative scheme will greatly heighten awareness of reuse in London, and will enable us to reach out and help more of London’s socially deprived people as well as providing additional training and volunteer opportunities for local unemployed people. We look forward to participating in the future growth of London’s reuse.

Our future can be summarised in one word – “Partnership”. We look forward to working in partnership with the other members of the North London LRN cluster to invigorate reuse opportunities across North London, and also in partnership with a growing number of housing associations, tenant managed organisations and responsible social landlords to whom we are providing an innovative reuse/disposal service allied with added social value elements based around volunteer training and accessibility for estate residents to enhance their lives and skills. We also continue to work with placement and training agencies to assist in providing volunteers with a work based training experience. As we develop the scope and range of our activities we will be working more closely with many types of organisation and look forward to the continuing benefits these tie-ups will provide.

While we continue to develop paid-for activities as a central part of our strategy to financial security and independence, we are mindful that we do not lose sight of our aims in the exciting days ahead and ensure we continue the mission we have been so successfully undertaking for the last 20 years

Whilst we are able to generate over half of our funds ourselves, because we receive no money from either central or local government we continue to rely on an element of grant funding. We are thus immensely grateful to the following organisations for providing grants, currently, and in the past:

• Awards for All
• Biffaward
• Big Lottery Fund
• Bridge House Estates Trust Fund
• Chapman Charitable Trust
• CRED fund
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
• Four Acre Trust
• Garfield Weston Foundation
• Hadley Trust
• Hampstead Wells & Campden Trust
• Haringey Mentoring Network
• Hyman Charitable Trust

• Lloyds TSB Foundation
• London ReMade
• London Waste Ltd
• LRL
• Milly Apthorp Charitable Trust
• North London Waste Authority
• Henry Smith Charity
• Oppenheimer Charitable Trust
• Sobell Foundation
• Stone Ashdown Foundation
• StreetSmart
• Sunley Foundation
• Waste Partnership Fund

The work that we do not only helps to relieve poverty, but has a major benefit to the environment by saving re-usable items that would otherwise be landfilled or incinerated. This is particularly true for additional activities which we do in addition to our core work.

In the past year we have diverted the following tonnes from landfill:

Tonnage collected from households.........-t
Tonnage collected from Bulky's ...........-t
Tonnage collected from VOID's ............-t
2011-12 Stats January - March

Tonnage collected from households.........14.72t
Tonnage collected from Bulky's ...........41.89t
Tonnage collected from VOID's ............18.11t
2011-12 Stats October - December

Tonnage collected from households.........21.05t
Tonnage collected from Bulky's ...........48.17t
Tonnage collected from VOID's ............11.79t
2011-12 Stats July - September

Tonnage collected from households........21,91t
Tonnage collected from Bulky's ..........31.57t
Tonnage collected from VOID's ...........8.71t
2011-12 Stats April - June

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