How often do you skip across the border to the Newport Pagnell tip ( AKA civic amenity site) and stand in awe of the mountains of STUFF we throw away. We are drowning in STUFF. Now I'm not in favour of hoarding either (as one or two of my family members will ruefully report) but there is a huge amount of waste.
The Parish Council has registered Cranfield with PREEN.
They describe themselves as follows:
PREEN is a social enterprise - a business that runs for the benefit of the community and fulfils a social purpose.
We do a number of things but our main project is the Furniture Bank, a community reuse service that provides training, reduces waste and most importantly, supplies low cost furniture and appliances to vulnerable disadvantaged people in Bedfordshire.
To pay for this work we run 2 community reuse shops in Biggleswade and Dunstable which are open to the public. They’ve been described as ‘Aladdin’s Caves’ and stock all kinds of 2nd hand goods.
info@preencic.org 01767 600332
PREEN also take away and repair all those household goods that end up in the tip because no one repairs that sort of stuff anymore.
The Parish Council is identifying dates in September when PREEN will come to the village and pick up smaller household goods that are now 'broken' or damaged from a central location and take away suitable furniture from individual pre-notified addresses. The PC will be publishing these dates in the September Cranfield Express and I will also flag them up on the blog.
The Parish Council has registered Cranfield with PREEN.
They describe themselves as follows:
We do a number of things but our main project is the Furniture Bank, a community reuse service that provides training, reduces waste and most importantly, supplies low cost furniture and appliances to vulnerable disadvantaged people in Bedfordshire.
To pay for this work we run 2 community reuse shops in Biggleswade and Dunstable which are open to the public. They’ve been described as ‘Aladdin’s Caves’ and stock all kinds of 2nd hand goods.
info@preencic.org 01767 600332
PREEN also take away and repair all those household goods that end up in the tip because no one repairs that sort of stuff anymore.
The Parish Council is identifying dates in September when PREEN will come to the village and pick up smaller household goods that are now 'broken' or damaged from a central location and take away suitable furniture from individual pre-notified addresses. The PC will be publishing these dates in the September Cranfield Express and I will also flag them up on the blog.
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