Kennet Furniture Refurbiz Ltd (KFR), an award-winning small charity based near Devizes that specialises in saving furniture from landfill, is seeking applications for a new Chairperson for its board of trustees.


The company has recently been chosen as the “Reuse organisation of the year 2019” by the Bristol-based Reuse Network, following a public vote.

Operations manager, Dan Thompson says that after 17 years, current Chairman Ken Brown was looking to step aside and give someone else the chance “to climb their soap box and shout” about the brilliant work of the charity in reducing landfill and helping families on low incomes. Thompson added that KFR had experienced an “epiphany” in the past two years, realising that success for the charity was entirely tied to getting the word out there – and that the new Chair would play a vital role in this.

The role requires attendance at nine monthly meetings each year, and would involve some management; primarily, however, the work will build on the networking and publicity that has given KFR such recent success.

In 2018 alone, Dan Thompson and his team of over 30 volunteers managed to save over 200 tonnes of usable furniture from landfill, and sold over 4,000 items of furniture and white goods. These sales come from the furniture restored by the charity, which provides them at a significantly reduced cost to low-income families through a two-tiered system. It is in this vital, but sometimes overlooked, mode of poverty alleviation that KFR does its excellent work, and the charity is now looking for a Chairperson who can take it from strength to strength.

For enquiries, please call Dan Thompson at 01380 720200; email info@kfr.org.ukwith “Chairperson” in the subject line; or contact them via facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KFRWiltshire/