Welcome to Richmond Furniture Scheme. Your local furniture recycling charity based in Twickenham, where you can find good value for money and quality second-hand furniture! Richmond Furniture Scheme is a small charitable organisation set up to help people in need by collecting donated furniture in good condition from the Richmond borough area and reusing it. A small charge is made to those people that are referred.
But to ensure that all donated furniture is reused, and to help make the Scheme more self-sufficient, the Scheme is open to sell furniture to all people residing in the Richmond Borough.
67 GoodGymers have supported Richmond Furniture Scheme with 42 tasks.
Saturday 15th November
Written by Adam Stephens
Our monthly RFS visit saw 2 GGRs turn out on a rather damp Saturday morning.
We welcomed Evelyn for one of her first Good Gym tasks, and along with Adam was assigned the challenge of clearing another of the side passage ways to provide further storage space.
This proved a highly effective work out, moving items such as a broken ladder, footballs and other heavy objects.
By the end a mysterious door was uncovered, proving that the phrase when one door closes another opens highly appropriate!
Saturday 18th October
Written by Adam Stephens
Four GGers arrived with a paw-sitive mindset for the monthly RFS task of making the yard look tidy.
Chris set about chopping back the ivy and using the trusty magnetic sweeper to remove any loose nails lying around.
Rosie and Monika meanwhile were weeding and clearing the greenery near the fence, while Adam, with his trusty litter picker cleared the litter.
This combined with the aid of a fury friend ensured the yard was looking nice and purr-fect.
Saturday 20th September
Written by Adam Stephens
Good Gym’s monthly visit to the Richmond Furniture Scheme visit saw four GGers tasked with clearing the side and back of the RFS warehouse In other words, making it vine and dandy!
On cloudy, overcast day and armed with loppers and hoes, both Monika and Chris set about clearing the side passage finding items such as a skateboard and an old cup as well as other odds and ends.
While JP and Adam set about clearing the vines and weeds off the passage gate.
Overall a vine old time was had by all!
Saturday 16th August
Written by JP
It was a warm but overcast morning in Twickenham as four of Goodgym’s finest gathered at the Richmond Furniture Scheme for our monthly mission there.
The RFS is a great organisation which repairs and restores donated furniture which is sold on to the public, at discounted rates for those who need a little more help.
We welcomed back a long-lost Vix and an even longer-lost Pippa and everyone got stuck in to the task, which was to move stone slabs from one side of the car park to the other. We decided to make use of one of the trolleys which Harry dragged across and up a deceptive incline to reach the shed where the slabs were to be stacked.
No slab was too heavy for two and we finished the main part of the task in 4 trips. It then remained for us to shovel the soil (as the slabs had been surrounding a flowerbed of sorts) into bags and across to the same destination.
It was a satisfying mission followed by a coffee in Richmond for those going that way. We’re looking forward to being back at the RFS in September.
Saturday 21st June
Written by Adam Stephens
On the longest and hottest day of the year so far, three GoodGymmers turned out for our monthly Richmond Furniture Scheme visit
JP, Sam and Adam, arriving by various means of transport from bike, running to driving, were allocated the task of weeding and clearing out the overgrown yard before bagging and leafing it all behind!
We finished off by helping unload items from the weekends mega skip day
Overall you could say the outside space was improved beyond Beleaf!
See link below for upcoming tasks https://www.goodgym.org/v3/session
Saturday 17th May
Written by Adam Stephens
At this month’s RFS visit, Adam, Chris, JP, Steph and Suze were given the task of causing double bubble trouble toil and trouble!
In other words,recycling bubble rap to be used in the RFS store to wrap up donated brick a brac items.
Additionally, with the help of knifes, we successfully broke down the cardboard boxes they came in.
Fortunately we did not burst anyone’s bubble here.
See link below for upcoming tasks https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions
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