FRC Group Wins Natwest SE100 Impact AwardFRC Group has won the NatWest SE100 Index Impact Award. Now in its 6th year, the leading market intelligence tool for social ventures, the NatWest SE100 Index, announced the winners of its 2015 awards this week. The 2015 winners receive a share of over £32, 000 in prize money, awarded at the NatWest SE100 Annual […]
What A Difference An Award Can MakeWinning the SE100 Award for Resilience in 2014 helped FRC Group to launch a new campaign – End Furniture Poverty. As the deadline for entries for the 2015 SE100 awards approaches, a new article asks all the 2014 winners, including FRC Group, what the award meant to them – to read more visit: www.pioneerspost.com/business-school/20150811/se100-award-winners-infinity-and-beyond
A Big DonationThe library has been created by Gateacre School in partnership with Belle Vale Shopping Centre and is based in the shopping centre. Their motto is: “take a book, return a book, donate a book”, in a gathering place where the community can share their favourite books and stories. Lisa Mitchell, Gateacre School Community Co-ordinator, said: “The Big […]
A Magical RefurbishmentBuckingham Interiors have supplied a full range of new communal furniture including easy chairs, tables, bookcases, window coverings, guest bedroom furniture and additional accessories. Niva Pandya, ILS Project Modernisation Officer, from Merlin Housing Society, said: “We are delighted with the finished look in the three schemes. The residents are very happy with the new style and […]
Introducing the Furnished Tenancies Working GroupWe were delighted to welcome 15 housing professionals from social housing providers around the country yesterday for our inaugural Furnished Tenancies Working Group. At End Furniture Poverty, we believe that a furnished tenancy can be an excellent route out of furniture poverty so we have been campaigning for many years to try and increase the […]
A Blueprint for Creating Furnished TenanciesAt End Furniture Poverty we passionately believe that the provision of furnished tenancies can offer a great route out of furniture poverty for some people. However whereas in the private rental sector, furnished tenancies are commonplace, they are much rarer in the social housing sector and we want to understand why. How can we support […]
Carpet Tiles Vs No FlooringFlooring is an essential furniture item but it can be incredibly hard to get hold of if you don’t have savings and can’t get credit. Often furnished tenancy schemes don’t include flooring as installing carpet is costly and if the tenant then moves, they can take any furniture with them, but not carpet. End Furniture […]
Social Enterprise World Forum – Day Two!Rachel Duty, our Finance Assistant, is representing us at the Social Enterprise World Forum in Ethiopia. Here are her thoughts on Day 2… Day 2 of the Social Enterprise World Forum and there’s so much to see and do here – and so much to learn. Our first session on day 2 was looking at […]
FRC Group goes global at the Social Enterprise World ForumThanks to being shortlisted in FIVE categories in the Social Enterprise UK awards, our parent charity, FRC Group, received a bursary from the British Council to attend the Social Enterprise World Forum which this year is in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa We opened up the opportunity to our whole team and the lucky globetrotters are […]
Come and join the team!End Furniture Poverty is recruiting – Closing Date Tuesday, 8th October! We need an energetic, multi-talented, hugely passionate new team member who will make a big contribution to everything to do with our campaign to End Furniture Poverty….and more besides. Working with FRC Group’s Business Development Manager, the Campaigns Officer, will be involved with every […]
The Social Value of FurnitureEnd Furniture Poverty is currently doing some work to work out the social value of furniture and appliances to low-and-no-income families who receive them. We are really excited to be working in partnership with Liverpool City Council to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) study into the value of our Essential Items. Once complete, […]
Come and see us at Housing 2019!There are now just a few short days to go until Housing 2019 begins in Manchester. We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be exhibiting, and we’d love to see you there! Come and see us at Stand F13 (opposite the Insight Seminar Theatre) in the exhibition hall. View fullsize End Furniture Poverty are on Stand F13 – […]
Lived Experience“There is no substitute for experience.” It might be a cliché oft-deployed by football commentators and nagging parents alike, but when it comes to poverty and homelessness, lived experience can be a genuinely transformative tool for setting policy and helping people in need. Data, surveys and statistics can unquestionably play a massive role when it […]
Fair by Design: Furniture Poverty and the Poverty PremiumPeople in poverty are forced to pay more for a range of essential products and services such as energy, credit, and insurance. This is called the Poverty Premium: the extra costs of being poor. Poverty is a driver of the Poverty Premium, and the Poverty Premium is, in itself, a driver of poverty. It’s a […]
