Donating furniture to good causes


How we’re breathing a fresh lease of life into used furniture, and donating it to good causes in the UK and New Zealand


UK: Our hugely successful donation initiative, the Giving Back Project, works to donate redundant furniture from clearance projects that would otherwise go to waste, and support charities and other not-for-profit organisations, allowing them to focus resources on frontline services. It ensures that items that still have social value remain in use for as long as possible, helping those in need whilst avoiding creating additional administration for clients that want to see their redundant assets remain in use.


The Giving Back project by numbers: Total CO2


Total items donated in 2022


5,631 e


saved in 2022


226 90


Number of benefitting organizations: 330 charities, including YMCA, Scouts, The Brain Tumour Charity, Haven House Children’s Hospice, St Mungo’s and Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.


Since 2015 Crown Workspace in the UK has donated 33,295 items of furniture diverting 443 tons away from landfill into reuse.


New Zealand: FIL Furniture, a division of Crown FIL Workspace New Zealand, which specialises in the sale and hiring of quality, affordable and environmentally ethical office furniture – has repurposed old furniture, before donating it to schools, community clubs, and many other charitable organisations in Wellington.


Donations include:


• Tables and chairs to the Te Kakano o te Aroha church in Wellington


• Whiteboards and chairs to the Pukerua Bay School


• Furniture items to the Kapiti Squash Club and Dyer St School


Total weight


diverted into reuse (tons) in 2022


• Chairs and fridges to the Netball Kapiti and Paraparaumu Beach Tennis


These donations, while helping community groups with furniture that might otherwise have come at substantial cost, also help towards FIL Furniture’s aim of zero per cent of building clearance items going to landfill.


Singapore: In Singapore, the team collected new, used and recycled shoes for an organization called Soles4Souls. These shoes will be donated to those less fortunate and homeless people around the world.


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