A small charity with a big vision! hfs is the local independent furniture and electrical reuse charity that has been fighting furniture poverty in Hastings and Rother since 1988. HFS - alleviating poverty, creating homes, rebuilding lives and protecting the planet.
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Combating Essential Furniture Poverty
HFS plays a crucial role in ensuring that the most vulnerable individuals have access to basic essentials. The demand for our services is growing, and it is vital for HFS to continue meeting these needs.
Our Vision - We believe every person, across Hastings and Rother, should have a bed to sleep on, a cooker to prepare basic meals with and the essential furniture to create a comfortable, safe home.
Our Mission – To help alleviate poverty by providing low-cost quality re-used furniture and electrical goods to low-income households; creating opportunities to enable individuals to improve their lives; diverting waste from landfill and reducing CO2e emissions.
For 35 years, HFS has been committed to supplying low-cost furniture to low-income families. Despite furniture and white goods poverty lacking the same recognition as food or fuel poverty, it remains a harsh reality for many families in our society.
For example, without a means to cook food (cooker, microwave, etc.), families relying on food banks can't safely prepare the food they are given. Without a fridge to store fresh produce, many families end up throwing away donated food that has perished or, even worse, trying to eat rotten food. Without a bed each to sleep on, families end up sharing mattresses or even sleeping on the cold floor.
New research has highlighted that over a million children are currently enduring inadequate sleeping conditions. Families in crisis are having to prioritize essentials such as food, heating, and electricity over things like replacing moldy bedding or fixing a broken bed.
What we're doing to help families in poverty:
By providing low-cost, quality furniture, white goods, and essential starter packs (including bedding, cooking utensils, toiletries, etc.), we were able to support 4200 low-income families last year.
We are also proud to be part of the circular economy and we aim to be at the forefront in tackling climate change across the region; to inspire and energise our community to reduce C02e emissions and be part of the solution
for Net Zero.
Choosing preloved furniture isn't just about getting a great bargain, it's also an eco-savvy way of helping the planet.
We are all familiar with the concept of recycling and that’s certainly a better option than sending our furniture, white goods and homewares straight to landfill. But even recycling comes at an economic and environmental cost, as we need to generate energy in order to break down and recycle these products.
Reuse is even more effective than recycling because it extends the life cycles of our products at no extra cost to the planet
When we cultivate the habit of purchasing quality 2nd hand goods and we interrupt cycles of overproduction and consumption.
Go on, let's help our planet!