Richmond Furniture Scheme

👥🤝We're proud to give back to our community. Not only with our furniture but our service!🙌

💚Thank you to all those that leave lovely reviews like this
💚Thank you to all who contribute to RFS!

#Richmond #MakingHomes #ProtectingTheEnvironment #BuildingCommunity #RichmondFurnitureScheme

🗄️ Upcycled engineer’s cabinet
Swipe for it open!

🙌Our volunteer has upcycled RFS items:
“The main carcass from a bedside cupboard, drawers bodies from bed slats, leather handles from an old place mat.“
♻️ Helping save items from landfill!

📣To volunteer, get in touch!
#Upcycling #Volunteer #Charity

Opting for second-hand isn’t just cost-effective, it helps the environment.
One sofa from us at RFS, can save about 52kg of CO2
A significant amount from one purchase!
So, shop with us! RFSonline.co.uk/shop

1 WRAP and DEFRA – the 2016 benefits of reuse study
2 gov.uk/co2-and-vehicle-tax-tools

Our van drivers don’t just deliver, they also provide free collections of unwanted items, diverting items from landfill while sending out affordable furniture♻️
Big thank you to them🌟

🛍️ RFSonline.co.uk/shop
📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
#Richmond #Reuse #Charity #Deliveries #Collections

❓What does RFS aim to do?

👥 2) Build Community
🙌 We’re are pleased by the impact this has on our team

🎯 If our aims align with you, consider getting involved with us:

📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
🌐 RFSonline.co.uk

#Richmond #Charity #Testimonial #BuildingCommunity #Volunteering

❄️🌨️Even during winter our delivery drivers work hard to make collections and deliveries to support the community!

Visit us in store this winter season, shop online or donate 🧣🧤🧦

🛍 rfsonline.co.uk/shop
📞 0208 755 4665
📍 1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS

#Richmond #Charity #Reuse #Delivery

Drop in, email or call us at RFS. We can offer:

🛋️ Affordable furniture/appliances
💷 25% discount if you qualify
🧱 Volunteering opportunities

Shop online: rfsonline.co.uk/shop
Access grants and discounts: rfsonline.co.uk/grants-discounts/
To volunteer, get in touch

#Richmond #Charity #Reuse

❓What does RFS aim to do?

🏡 1) Make Homes
🙌 We’re motivated by the impact this has on our customers.

If this aligns with you, consider donating, shopping or volunteer with us:
📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
🌐 RFSonline.co.uk
#Richmond #MakingHomes #Charity #Reuse #Testimonial

🪑 We're proud to be able to give back to our community
Additionally, to have been donated 139 tonnes of items last year, all diverted from landfill
All thanks to all those that support us!

Shop or volunteer with us:
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
🌐 RFSonline.co.uk
📍 TW2 5LS

#Richmond #Charity #Reuse

A fresh batch of starter kits have come in, available to all our grant customers in need and it’s a great quality kit too!
What are starter kits? Pack of house essentials, given to our grant-referred customers.
How to receive a grant: rfsonline.co.uk/grants
#Richmond #Charity #EndFurniturePoverty

🎨Our volunteer has transformed this cupboard by replacing the handles, repairing and repainting, helping save items from landfill & support our community

📣If you’d like to volunteer with us, please do get in touch.

📞0208 755 4665
📧admin@RFSonline.co.uk
📍1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS

A pallet transformation💚
⚽Billy from Hampton Rangers worked with our volunteer, Michael, to bring the pallets to our workshop space, requesting a rustic looking planter.

Michael and the team then transformed them, ready to be used at the football club. Last slide for the results!✨
#Community #Reuse

🎨Our volunteer has transformed this cupboard by replacing the handles, repairing and repainting, helping save items from landfill & support our community

📣If you’d like to volunteer with us, please do get in touch.

📞0208 755 4665
📧admin@RFSonline.co.uk
📍1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS

We hope everyone had a great holiday season💚

🎄Here are some Christmas ornaments our talented Carousel
Volunteer upcycled from a dolls house

✨If you'd like to volunteer with us to help fight furniture poverty, save furniture from landfill and build community, drop in, email or call us for more info

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🌟It was great to be part of Shepherd’s Star’s Explore programme in November!
RFS walked attendees through the process of upcycling prepared pieces of wood. The outcomes were fantastic🪵

#RichmondFurnitureScheme #MakingHomes #ProtectingTheEnvironment #BuildingCommunity #Charity #Reuse #Richmond

⭐️Join our volunteer, Michael, as he upcycles some leftover wood.
Please do get in touch if you'd like to volunteer with us. Everyone is welcome!

📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
🌐 www.RFSonline.co.uk
📍 1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS

#Richmond #Upcycling #Volunteering

Reuse Network Supporting reuse charities across the UK to help them alleviate poverty, reduce waste and tackle climate change.

#BuyNothingNewDay is on November 28th! @reusenetwork.bsky.social

Support your local #reuse charity and making secondhand your first choice on the 28th.
Find out more and get involved: reuse-network.org.uk/buy-nothing-...

🛍️ www.RFSonline.co.uk/shop

Panel members on stage at yesterday evening's Richmond Sustainability Forum. Simon Westgarth, CEO of Richmond Furniture Scheme, is pictured on the right of the image in a red polo shirt and holding a microphone.

Last night our CEO Simon Westgarth spoke at the Richmond Sustainability Forum 🌍

He spoke about the important work of our charity and how partnership working can grow the circular economy ♻️

Thank you to @richmondcouncil.bsky.social for hosting! 💚

#Sustainability #CircularEconomy #Richmond

A group of Richmond Furniture Scheme team members stood outside in sunny weather. Tim is pictured in the middle, crouching and holding gifts from Richmond Furniture Scheme.

✨ Today we are celebrating Tim, who's heading back to the USA after several years of volunteering with us here at Richmond Furniture Scheme 💚

A huge thank you to Tim for all of his support over the years - he'll be missed 🫶

🟢 #RichmondCommunity #VolunteersMakeADifference #VolunteersRock 🟢

⚠️ We've been working so hard building, crafting and repairing that we're starting to run a bit low on wood! If you have any spare bits of wood or useful timber that you'd be happy to donate, please get in touch 👇

📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
📍 1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS

🌼 We've been busy making planters for next week's RHS Garden Festival at Hampton Court Palace 👑✨

🟢 #RHSHamptonCourtPalaceGardenFestival #RHS #HamptonCourtPalace #RecycledFurniture #RichmondCommunity #RichmondUponThames 🟢

A large skip filled with assorted household waste

A large, fluffy husky toy wearing a high-vis RFS jacket

A mega morning at Heathfield’s Mega Skip event on Saturday ♻️✨

We always enjoy supporting these events and engaging with the community, all while helping to save items from landfill.

And please welcome our new (very fluffy) volunteer! 🐶

🟢 #MegaSkip #WasteReduction #RichmondUponThames 🟢

Volunteers Week graphic. The text reads 'Thank you Team RFS!'. The image features some of our volunteers helping to deliver essentials at Christmas.

🌟 It's #VolunteersWeek! 🌟

Since 1st April, 59 volunteers have given 1,850 hours of their time to RFS, helping with:

🚚 Deliveries and collections
🔨 Repairs and upcycling
👋 Customer support
💞 Building community

We couldn’t do it without you, thank you 🫶

🟢 #RichmondUponThames #VolunteersWeek2025 🟢

We had a fantastic time at @richmondcvs.bsky.social's volunteer recruitment fair last week 🤩

Our stand featured miniature furniture and a replica mini Vanessa created by our volunteers here at RFS ✨

🟢 #RichmondUponThames #RichmondCommunity #Volunteering 🟢

🛍️ Anyone can shop with us by visiting our
Twickenham warehouse or our online store ➡️
www.rfsonline.co.uk/shop

📞 0208 755 4665
📧 admin@RFSonline.co.uk
🌐 www.RFSonline.co.uk
📍 1a Fortescue Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5LS
🗓️ Monday - Friday 9.30am - 4pm ~ Saturday 10am - 4pm

Graphic with the text 'We're now helping 400 more households a year!'. Light green background with two white sparkles and the RFS logo in the top right corner.

💚 Our service has expanded into Hounslow, helping
residents in crisis who have been given grants through
Hounslow Council’s Discretionary Local Crisis
Payments.

We're delighted to be working with @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social to ensure that people in the borough can get the furniture that they need.

🌟 We’ve been awarded £5,000 from @richmondcouncil.bsky.social's Active Richmond Fund! 🌟

The grant will go towards providing Starter Kits of household and kitchen essentials to people in need.

Thanks to this support, even more residents will be able to cook healthy meals at home 🍽️

✨ At Richmond Furniture Scheme, we’re not just #MakingHomes for people!

🐞🐦 Our volunteers have been busy building bug hotels and bird houses using recycled materials to help local wildlife thrive and make our community greener 💚

🟢 #RichmondUponThames #RichmondCommunity #NatureLovers 🟢

🌟 We're in need of sofas, wardrobes & chests of drawers! 🌟

Upgrading your furniture soon? Don’t send it to landfill - donate it to us instead 🫶💚

🚚 Free collection available (please allow a few weeks) or drop off at our Twickenham warehouse.

Click here to donate ➡️ donatefurniture.rfsonline.co.uk

Simo, CEO of Richmond Furniture Scheme, is pictured here after completing the London Landmarks Half Marathon. He is wearing a bright yellow shirt for The Hygiene Bank with a medal around his neck, and other runners can be seen behind him

🙌 Well done to Simon (our CEO) for completing the London Landmarks Half Marathon last weekend in 1 hour, 54 minutes and 31 seconds! 🏃✨

Simon was running for The Hygiene Bank and Richmond Furniture Scheme.

🌟Help us to hit our target and donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/rfs-172...