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GreenWorks is dedicated to helping the environment by diverting large quantities of redundant office and educational furniture from landfill with the prime aim of ‘re-use’. As part of the London Re-use Network which is made up of local charities and not for profit organizations that work together to deliver reuse and repair services, GreenWorks collects from very large office blocks to single office suites and provides second hand quality re-use furniture to charities, community and educational groups and small business via the network.

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GreenWorks partners with Ede's to champion re-use

22 March 2012

Ede's is one of the top relocation management service providers in London and we've teamed up to ensure thier clients redundant office furniture is re-used rather than recycled.

So why do we want to team up with a commercial mover like Ede's? 

Ede's is one of the few fully integrated relocation management companies in the industry that is able to offer a comprehensive range of relocation and associated services. As such, they are uniquely positioned to provide an effective relocation planning, management and implementation service to guide your organisation to a successful relocation.

They offer the following range of services from which our clients can select according to their requirements:

Relocation project planning and management; Interiors and Fit Out; IT project planning and management; IT support services; Decommissioning and re-commissioning of IT equipment; Removals; In-house porterage; Packing and unpacking; Crate hire; Furniture installation; Warehouse storage (On-line viewing and ordering);  Archive storage and management; Filing surveys; Asset registration and inventories; Post move furniture disposal (Partnership with London Re-Use); Post move cleaning; Move help desk;

Theirs like GreenWorks approach is to recognize that every customer's business and project is unique and as such our services need to be tailored to best suit not only individual requirements but also the personality of each business.  Ede's aim to offer the necessary solutions to office re-organization and removal needs incorporating our capabilities in project management, removals and IT services as well as offering a range of associated services regardless if they are moving 2 or 2000 staff the service level is always the same.

Of course none of this counts for anything without continually delivering a first class service and they are only too aware that it has taken many successful projects over many years to build up a good reputation in this market.  Customer satisfaction is of the highest importance to Ede's and they take great pride in the customers and industry awards they have received over the years. 

Over the past 15 years Ede's have been winners of the Commercial Mover of the Year Award on six occasions and runners up on a further three.

They operate from a newly built Warehouse and Headquarters in Morden and are able to provide coverage for London and the South East and using their relationships further a field are able to offer a nationwide service.

The warehouse facility is second to none and is complimented by an ‘on line' inventory system, which enables users to view and order their stored goods from their PC.

Ede's has ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 accreditation and British Standard 8522 and is a full member of the British Association of Removers (CMG) and operates a fleet of modern vehicles all with low emission engines all of which are Euro 4 or Euro 5 compliant.

They pride themselves in having a client base that is extensive and contains many household names from Blue chip Companies through to Government and local Authorities by way of example Barclays, Deutsche Bank, CSC, BBC, L. B. Bromley, L.B. Merton, L.B. Sutton, London School of Economics to name a few.

Here is a link to the Ede's website www.edes.com

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GreenWorks Facts

GreenWorks celebrated its 10th birthday in 2010

We were among the first commercial furniture charities to recognise the scale of the 500,000 tonnes of waste being dumped in landfill every year

GreenWorks 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 4 processing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items