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As an ISO:14001 Environmental Management-accredited business, we have a responsibility to promote sustainability and to ensure that the waste we produce (or comes into contact with) is cleared in the most ecologically friendly way possible.
The application ‘A Good Thing’ allows businesses to repurpose quality items with local organisations via a simple and easy online platform, making the whole donation process seamless and hassle-free.
Although we had been signed up to A Good Thing for a while, we hadn’t actually used the platform as we had been doing direct donations to our quite plentiful charity connections. However, in June 2025, we uploaded a huge amount of brilliant furniture including 85 beautiful chairs in great condition, some stylish modern tables, a designer meeting table plus 20 radiators. It was all really very simple.
As a company that completes sustainable office and furniture clearances for our clients, we are always looking to repurpose furniture as opposed to recycling… and A Good Thing provides us with a vehicle to do just that. Everything we have put onto the portal has been snapped up quickly: collections have been speedily arranged and all with very little hassle. Done and dusted in just a week!
This furniture had been cleared during one of our recent office removal projects. The client had no use for it, so we returned the chairs and tables to our warehouse for charity donation. Once uploaded to the app, we had an awful lot of interest in all the items; our inbox went crazy! The recipient charities arranged their own collections, and all the items went to a good home within a week!
The YMCA England & Wales was matched with radiators, chairs and tables for resale in its charity shop, raising much-needed funds for its important work with young people in the community.
The Basingstoke Community Radio charity was matched with chairs, to be used in its young adults’ training room, as they explained: “We train young students with learning difficulties to become radio presenters: these chairs would replace our current old ones.”
A Good Thing has so many charities signed up to their platform now right across the UK, and they are often just waiting for a local firm to create a great listing like our one. Charities are so resourceful and can make use of so much.
We really recommend to other businesses who may have items to donate, and our client is happy that some of their old products have been donated to local charities. Of course, we’re also happy that the furniture hasn’t sat in our warehouse for weeks waiting for someone to take it!
Our furniture donations ended up being split between the YMCA England & Wales, Basingstoke Community Radio and Wycombe Multicultural Organisation.
Wycombe Multicultural Organisation (WMO) was matched with 28 chairs. WMO is a community organisation that manages the Hilltop Community Centre in High Wycombe: Melissa Humphrey, the centre’s manager, told us: “It was a very easy process; I clicked to request the items and that was it. The process couldn’t have been simpler, and the quality was superb.” Melissa told us a bit about how the donated chairs would come in useful:
“The chairs are for our community centre hall users to benefit from. We’ll now be able to offer more comfortable facilities to groups and activities using the space. Some of the participants in our older people’s support group had been struggling with our older chairs – plastic school chairs that were not so comfortable to sit on. The donated chairs exceeded our expectations. Plus, we had an extra three chairs included, which we weren’t expecting but are very grateful for.”
Sometimes something as simple as some fresh, comfortable chairs can make a huge difference to a local charity. Melissa told us how appreciative WMO is of the donation:
“We are extremely grateful to the A Good Thing platform: it has enabled us to obtain donated items we might not otherwise have been able to afford, therefore being able to serve our local community better with improved facilities and in turn offer access to our vital services. Once again, we’d like to thank the Active Workplace Group for its generosity. Director Adrian Powell was super helpful and made the process very simple and straightforward. We really appreciate this kind donation.”
If you’re interested in taking the pain out of the circular economy and helping charities then you can read through a simple guide How to donate unwanted items to charities | A Good Thing, and join us in offering your items!
