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Hello, and welcome to the third update on the latest with IT ReUse! There has been a pause on these of late as a result of some internal restructuring, and the rollout of our new website you are reading this on. More on the first of those below… As I did in the first and…

Hello, and welcome to another update on the Community Furniture Store! It’s been two weeks since our last, and we have some exciting things to share. As some of you may have seen, our very own Tom appeared on Jonathan Cowap’s midday BBC Radio York show. Skip ahead to 1:14:48 to hear about our IT Project…

Hi everyone, Below will be the first of what should be a weekly look inside CFS and the latest on what the organisation is doing. This is following the creation of a similar newsletter for our IT project IT ReUse.  The aim will be to bring you closer to our work and to the staff…

Hi, and welcome to the second edition of: ‘What’s new with IT ReUse’ – a regular series of blog posts designed to keep you up to date with the latest IT ReUse news. As I did in our first post, and will continue to do, I start by thanking our volunteers for their time and…

Hi, and welcome to the first of what will (hopefully) be a regular series of blog posts designed to keep you up to date with the latest IT ReUse news. First of all, we want to give a big ‘thank you’ to each and every volunteer who has given their time to the project in…

Victoria Charles of YorkMix radio presented her show from CFS Selby on 22nd July, and from CFS York on 27th.  Both shows were highly enjoyable for staff and volunteers as well as some surprised customers.  They also helped get out the message about the work each charity does in the community, as well as selling…

CFS Selby were pleased to host Victoria Charles’ morning show on YorkMix Radio earlier today.  As well as a wide range of music Victoria featured interviews with Cookie, the store manager, and some of the volunteers working in the store highlighting the work the charity does in the local community.  Victoria will be presenting her…

Community Furniture Store in York is helping more people get online by refurbishing unwanted IT equipment.  This is then made available free of charge to people referred City of York Council.  CYC also supports people with training and internet connectivity. You can now donate unwated devices at locations across the city.     Community Furniture…

The NHS run Project Choice has named Community Furniture Store (Ryedale) as their Mentor of the Year. Project Choice is a work based programme which supports young people (16-25 years) who have learning disabilities, difficulties or autism with the social and work based skills needed to enable them to become work ready and help them…

The Ryedale Community Furniture Store (based in Scarborough) has secured £20k of funding from the Sirius Minerals Foundation for the development of its workshop project.  The workshop provides training and support for local people who are facing difficulties finding work.  This includes people who are long term unemployed, people with an offending history, and people…