Furnishing Hope For
Families In Need
Everyone Deserves More Than Just Four Walls
At BCFS, we believe a home should be more than a roof and four walls. Every day, we support families and individuals in our community who are sleeping on floors or living without basic furniture.
While housing can sometimes be provided, there’s currently no obligation to furnish a home. That’s where we step in.
🛋 Furnishing Homes, Restoring Hope
We provide low-cost, quality furniture and essential household appliances to those in need—helping budgets go further and turning empty spaces into real homes.
• Beds for children who have none
• Washing machines so people can stay clean and confident for work or interviews
• Cookers to enable healthy, affordable home-cooked meals
We’re proud to be supported by local housing associations, homeless charities, and our local Council, all of whom trust us to help vulnerable people settle safely in their new home.
🌍 Reducing Waste, Protecting Our Environment
Our work has an environmental impact too. We help to significantly reduce landfill waste by collecting and recycling unwanted furniture and electrical items from homes across the community.
Thanks both to local families who kindly donate these items and to a partnership with our local authority for waste collection, we ensure as many items as possible are reused or repurposed to help someone in need.
❤️ Powered by People
None of this would be possible without our dedicated staff and incredible volunteers. Their loyalty and daily commitment are what keep our mission going—restoring lives, reducing waste, and rebuilding hope, one home at a time.
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BCFS Aims
To recycle, upcycle and reuse household items in the relief of poverty through the provision of low-cost quality furniture. To work with partners in the borough to reduce the carbon footprint by reducing landfill waste.
Purpose
To provide low-cost high-quality furniture and household items through responsible and ethical methods.
Objectives
To provide a range of furniture items and packages to those in need and to the local community.
To reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
To responsibly source and dispose of household items.
Bolton Community Furniture Store
We are a charity helping local communities by putting pre-owned donated furniture back into circulation, reducing waste through Reuse and Upcycling, and provide employment and skills experience to people facing long term unemployment or barriers to work.
Providing Furniture
In the last year BCFS collected and delivered furniture to 5600 homes in Bolton. The organisation helped around 30 families with its free service, providing 226 items of furniture totalling £9815. 93% of the total furniture sales were to families and individuals living in wards that are within the top 15% most deprived areas nationally.
Supporting People
We support local people in need, working directly and through intermediaries, through the provision of low cost donated and new furniture and household goods.
Protecting the Environment
We protect the environment by collecting donations of reusable household goods which would otherwise go to waste.
Training
We offer training and work experience, particularly for the long term unemployed to help them to return into paid employment.