Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.
Green-Works celebrates its 10th Birthday
17 June 2010
Yes, we are 10 years old this month. No, it hasnt always been easy but reuse and changing peoples disposal habits has never been easy.Over the past 10 years we have saved 55,000 tonnes of carbon by our customers not purchasing new office furniture but going the green reuse route. We have helped over 800 young people into jobs. We have collected several prestigious awards along the way - most notibly the Qeens Award in 2008 and the Social Enterprise mark in 2010.
On the 17th June we had our franchisees and partners together for a small party to celebrate this landmark acheivement. We even baked a Green-Works cake and teamed up with the renound Ace Cafe for an environmental exhibition on the same day where world beating companies put on show their latest green products.
A fantastic day was had by all but there might have been just a few pain killers used the next day - but party we did!
Green-Works Facts
Green-Works celebrated its 10th birthday in 2010
We were the first to recognise the scale of the commerical furniutre problem with towards 500,000 tonnes of commercial furniture being dumped in landfill every year by companies
Green-Works has helped over 5,500 charities and organisations providing low cost furniture
We have donated over 70 jam packed containers of valauable educational and office furniture across the developing world
Our volunteers programme has save the state over £500K in social benefit
We have 5 proceesing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items
Green-Works was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
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