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Help charity secure premises

Free For Fuel is a Scottish Registered Charity operating to reduce poverty in Ayrshire while improving the levels of recycling. Unlike other organisations Free For Fuel doesn't ask the public for donations of their no longer required further, all stock comes from East Ayrshire Council's waste management department. This means that when diverting furniture from landfill this can be done on a different scale to others as all stock is on "furniture's death row" awaiting on a Barr's lorry to come and take it to landfill until Free For Fuel swoop in and save it. 

 

Over 4000 items have been uplifted and re homed all within Ayrshire by a team of only 2 people who started off with a red van, a mobile phone, a Facebook page and a farm shed. At no point has any funding been applied for as all funds to cover the expenses has been gained through re-homing furniture. 

If you have a house fire and lose everything, Free For Fuel will furnish your home with what stock they have available for no cost to help you get on your feet - 

If you flee abuse and are uncomfortable telling people your story just to have the chance of free furniture Free For Fuel won't ask questions, will purely give when they have the stock available - 

Child has broken their bed and all money is tied up in bills? Most single beds are delivered to homes in Ayrshire for only £15.....Free For Fuel makes living in a warm and safe home affordable again. 

However, the farm shed mentioned above had to be vacated on 16th April 2019 which included two weeks school holidays when they couldn't get much work done to source other premises as their children were off school and nursery which has left them stuck for where to store items.

In their Catrine shop there are usually a large selection of free items of furniture but this hasn't been an option since the warehouse was vacated as the shop and the van has been used as storage. This has prevented a lot of reuse for poverty reduction to be done and they are struggling - it is a sink or swim situation as there are no affordable premises around that don't create competition for other charities. 

 

A chance has come up for a huge industrial unit in CUMNOCK, East Ayrshire but funds are required to secure it and currently by only breaking even each week the charity has nowhere near the funds required. 

 

We are begging for your help, to help secure the unit in order to fill it with free to £150 furniture including free suites, free tv units, coffee tables, bedside cabinets etc. (items priced from £5-£150 contributes to the running costs already an asset to the charity). 

We need £5000 to secure this by the beginning of next week. This is a huge ask but we know there is a huge demand for the service. 

 

This is far from a regular fundraising/begging fundraiser from charities, we are genuinely struggling and don't want to let those who rely on the charity down, we want to see more children having warm, comfortable beds to sleep in rather than on the floor, we want to be able to have ex-homeless OAPS sleep in beds rather than on bags of their own clothes as it's all that is in their homes (we have had both cases supported by us). 

If you can help then please do, please help us help families or individuals furnish their homes without going into debt, struggling to buy or having to go without - this is 2019 not 1902 where the struggle is real, we need to update society and have everyone living comfortably. We need to look after those that the so called staff behind universal credit fail to remember are living beings. 

Please help, please done, please share....every penny will help. 

 

Please 

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Lee Ann
Organizer
Scotland

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