# The Furniture Lodge

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC045138
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Sept. 30, 2014
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC045138


## Contact

- **Address:** 34 MacDonald, Stonehaven
- **Postcode:** AB39 2LY



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Save usable furniture and household goods from landfill. Encourage re-use. Create a social enterprise. We collect goods from donors to our shop/store and deliver to purchasers with our van. Provide work experience for volunteers.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** The organisation&#x27;s purposes are: 1.The advancement of environmental protection by establishing a community social enterprise which will raise awareness of and provide local solutions to waste reduction, recycling and re-use issues. This enterprise will seek to reduce the amount of reusable items currently being sent to landfill while promoting an awareness of waste reduction, recycling and re-use issues. It also aims to educate the public as to the benefits of donating or buying reusable items which would otherwise end up in landfill 2. The relief of those in need by providing work and training opportunities for disadvantaged members of the local community, alongside paid employment, volunteering and retraining opportunities.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeenshire
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







