Your Health Hub’s featured charity
Today protecting our environment is a priority for everyone and charity shops have been at the forefront of championing sustainability for years.
Returned
to Glory
The Charity Retail Association, the voice of charity retail reported that each year the charity sector is able to sell or recycle over 90% of donated clothing, over 90% of donated books and 85% of donated electrical goods. This diverts waste away from landfill – 373,000 tonnes each year alone whilst improving recycling and re-use rates. It also reduces C02 emissions by over 7 million tonnes in the process. The Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted celebrates its 40th birthday this year and its overarching aim it to help people live 24
their precious lives well. All hospice care is provided free and, to fund the very special work they do in the local community, the Hospice needs to raise over £5 million pounds each year. Their shops play a vital role in raising this money making over £100,000 a year alone by recycling clothes which cannot be sold. The Hospice’s furniture showroom Returned to Glory goes one step further. By repairing, renovating and upcycling unloved pieces that would otherwise be disposed of, the team of talented volunteers at Returned to Glory transform undesirable items of furniture. Their extensive workshop programme means that anyone can try their hand at their own
