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May
2016.
Salisbury Furniture Retailer announces first charity “furniture drop off point”

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Leading Salisbury Furniture Retailer announces first ever "furniture drop off point" to aid Trussell Trust

Southern UK based solid wood furniture retailer, A World of Furniture, has announced it is to become the first used furniture drop off point for those wishing to support national foodbank charity The Trussell Trust.

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MD of A World of Furniture, Mark Hotson, is a long term supporter of The Trussell Trust and already sponsors all the boxes the emergency food charity sends out. Last year the firm was also responsible for the delivery of over 400 hampers across the local region over the Christmas period.

Mark Ward from the HQ of the Salisbury based Trussell Trust, which has now become a nationally recognised charity, explains how funding the food initiative has led on to the creation of a string of shops. "The intention has always been to feed people only in short term crisis, but as time has moved forward we have seen people with more entrenched issues. This has resulted in us designing a service called "More than Food" which enables people to deal with their underlying financial and other issues - welfare, housing, budgeting etc. We want to help people to stop visiting foodbanks and to be able to live sustainable lives.

"In Salisbury we started to develop social enterprises with our first shop in 2006 which has grown to 14 with more planned. These are supported by sourcing warehouses and workshops which upcycle goods and provide a lot of volunteering and training opportunities often for people who struggle to enter the employment market. It has the added benefit of saving thousands of tonnes of waste entering landfill which can be recycled."

Once again A World of Furniture has stepped up to the challenge by offering its Salisbury store as a used furniture drop off point. The Trussell Trust will upcycle the furniture deposited at A World of Furniture and sell it on in its shops. Mark Hotson explains, "Originally I wanted us to become a food collection point, but our proximity to Tesco meant this wasn't really feasible and so I suggested to the Trussell Trust that we could provide more support by becoming a centre where people could bring their old solid wood furniture and drop it off before possibly taking a look round our store to choose a replacement."

Mark Ward said, "We welcomed Mark Hotson's involvement in this pilot project and hopefully if it is successful in the Salisbury store, it is something that can be repeated in A World of Furniture's Poole, Southampton and Blandford stores too."

For more information about A World of Furniture visit:www.aworldoffurniture.co.ukor T/: 0800 1223334

Picture Captions: MD A World of Furniture, Mark Hotson with the Green "Baron" of Salisbury

For more information on The Trussell Trust, visit:www.trusselltrust.org

For further press information please contact: Jane Adkins, A Head for PR, T/: 01935 813114; M/; 07960698089 or E/:jane@aheadforpr.co.uk

Notes to Editors

First opened in 1994, A World of Furniture is an independent family owned business, started by Mark Hotson and his wife. There is a flagship store in Salisbury, just a few minutes from Salisbury Cathedral on the Southampton Road. The retailer has two separate units with showrooms in one, covering two floors and showing off some of the best ranges A World of Furniture has to offer. In the second unit there is a huge stock and most items are available to take away the same day.

Other stores operate in Poole, Chandlers Ford and Blandford, with the aim to provide a choice of quality solid wood furniture at fair, affordable prices.