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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Books and Furniture arrive in Sierra Leone
29 September 2009
Green-Works have been working with CODEP on the Big Read project in the Waterloo region of Sierra Leone to ensure each school has a library and there is at least 2 books per child.Green-Works have been donating secure metal cabinates and storage units which will safely house the books ensuring they don't get wet or burnt.
Books have been donated from all across the UK and many have been collected by the Build on Books organisation which is a non-profit association supporting literacy projects in Sierra Leone.
You can now watch as the furniture arrives with over 30,000 books which are then distributed to schools across the region and hear from the people involved including the children - who are very excited!
Green-Works Facts
GreenWorks 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
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
GreenWorks was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
GreenWorks is a trading name of London Re-use Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of LCRN
(London Community Resource Network)
Charity Number 1118616
Registered Company 07114380