Furniture can be dropped off at the Purfleet Pantry, where we can then transport it to our storage warehouse or deliver it directly to someone in need.
Donate Your Furniture
Our van can pick up your furniture for free anywhere in West Norfolk. Please contact us to arrange a suitable time for our drivers to collect your donations.
Support fresh starts by donating furniture
By donating your furniture, you can help vulnerable people and people experiencing homelessness in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk as they move forward into fresh starts.
Our project, House2Home, gives vulnerable people the best start possible in their new property by providing the essential furniture to turn their house into a home.
Donated furniture is also used to furnish our Training Houses, which help prepare people for a future of independent, sustainable tenancies.
We also sell some of the furniture at affordable prices in our shop at the Purfleet Pantry. This gives people in need in our community access to affordable, good quality furniture for their home, whilst supporting a local good cause.
What can I donate?
We support many people that are housed in many different types of accommodation, but the majority are in small flats and HMO rooms.
Furniture that is most suitable for donation are smaller furniture items that can be used in rooms that are often more compact.
Please bare this in mind when donating your furniture!
The people we support deserve respect and this extends to the furniture that we are willing to provide to them.
This means items that your donate:
- should not have obvious stains, rips, marks or odours
- must work (particularly electrical items)
- must have all parts in place (for example, no missing doors on wardrobes, no missing drawers on a chest of drawers).
We are legally unable to sell or provide upholstered furniture to someone in need unless it carries a valid fire safety label.
Upholstered furniture refers to items with padding, cushioning or fabric coverings, such as sofas, mattresses and padded dining chairs.
If you are donating upholstered furniture, please ensure that:
- each item has a fire safety label securely attached or sewn in
- there are no rips or tears exposing the inner material, as this means the item no longer meets fire safety requirements
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept any items that do not meet these standards.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept ‘white goods’ including refrigerators, washing machines, and cookers.
We also do not accept used bedding including duvets, sheets and pillows.
The Purfleet Trust has limited storage space, so please consider contacting us to see if we currently have suitable space before donating any items.
Please consider contacting us for an updated list on items that we need most or view our Donation List
Donating funds can help to provide our projects by helping us with van costs, storage costs and more.
How donating furniture can support us
Support our House2Home Project
House2Home provides furniture packages to vulnerable people moving into their new accommodation around West Norfolk.
Our House2Home service relies on donated furniture to operate. Thanks to your generous donations, we have helped hundreds of individuals over the past few years successfully settle into their new independent accommodation and break the cycle of homelessness.
Find out more about House2Home
Support our charity shop
The Purfleet Trust’s charity shop is located at the Purfleet Pantry, and helps to provide affordable furniture for our community, whilst raising funds to support our work.
Thanks to your donations, we have been able to offer hundreds of items of furniture, ranging from sofas and coffee tables, to beds and cots.
Find out more about our charity shop
Raising funds for our services
By selling some of the furniture at the Purfleet Pantry, we can help raise money for our homelessness services in King’s Lynn.
Every year, our homelessness services support hundreds of vulnerable people. We provide support with Housing, Employment, Wellbeing and more to help people on their journey out of homelessness and towards fulfilling lives.
