reuse | HFS

Pop Up

21/05/2019H F Saffordable furniture, armchair, bargain, benefits, chair, charity, cheap, chest, clearance, collection, dining, donate furniture, drawers, East Sussex, furniture, Hastings, help, home, homeless, house, household, low income, low-cost, Pop-up shop, recycling, rehouse, repaint, resettle, reuse, second-hand furniture, social enterprise, sofa, sussex, table, volunteer, volunteering, wardrobe

We’re excited to announce that HFS Hastings will be relocating to the Priory Meadow shopping centre temporarily.

The pop-up store will give us a chance to reach more people and reuse even more furniture.

It will also enable us to redecorate our full-time premises in Dorset Place. We haven’t seen most of the walls or floor since we moved in after our re-build in 2007, so we can’t wait to give it a lick of paint!

The pop-up is on a rent-free “meanwhile” basis, while the landlord looks for a new paying tenant. We are moving on Tues and Weds (21-22 May). Hastings store will be closed on Weds 22nd.

The new store will open at lunchtime on Thurs 23rd May

Open Tues-Sat 9.30-4.30

Phone 01424 44 11 12

Address SU2 (former Top Shop) Priory Meadow Hastings TN34 1PH

Thrift Fest is this Saturday!

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The big day is Saturday 22nd September!

We’re celebrating 30 years of furniture reuse with a whole day of community activities at the Hastings Centre on the Ridge (opposite Conquest Hospital).

Please join us and have fun making, doing and trying new activities that don’t cost the earth!

Free advance tickets are available until the end of Friday on Eventbrite, or you can pay just £1 per adult on the door.

The programme and ticket link are on our website here.

Work with us!

14/07/2018H F Sactive jobs, Bexhill, charity, charity job, clearance, driver, driving, employment, envrionment, furniture, green job, Hastings, job, job ad, job search, lifting, manual handling, outdoor job, recycling, removals, reuse, Rother, situation vacant, vacancy

We will really miss Robyn, who is leaving us to join her family’s business and train to be a Plumber. Watch the interview with her about her role at HFS (click play above).

We are looking for someone with the same positive attitude, love of active work, friendly but professional communication skills and enjoyment of coaching and helping others.

Could it be you?

Changing our times

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We’ve simplified our opening times. From 1st July 2018 we will be open from 9.30–4.30 every day from Tuesday to Saturday.

This means there will be more time for our Saturday shoppers to explore our stores.

We will also be able to provide some collections and deliveries on Saturdays for folk who cannot take time off work during the week.

We will be closed so our team can rest on Sundays and Mondays.

Podcast features HFS

29/06/2018H F SBexhill, cause, charity, comedy, furniture, Hastings, interview, listen, local, manifesto, Mark Thomas, partly political podcast, podcast, politics, reuse, small charities week, Tiernan Douieb

HFS featured in Tiernan Douieb’s Partly Political Podcast.

Tiernan compered our fantastic comedy fund-raiser in May and wanted to feature HFS as part of Small Charities Week.

We talk about the challenges and joys of running a small local charity, the issues affecting people in our area, how policies affect us and how people can get involved and support us.

Listen to the Partly Political Podcast (Contains some swearing. Interview starts approx 20 mins into episode)

Photo of Tiernan Douieb and Mark Thomas on stage at De La Warr Pavilion in May by Bob Mazzer

Everyone deserves a comfy sofa

26/05/2018H F Scollaborate, collective responsiblity, connect, design. art, heroes, letterpress style, manifesto, poster, recycling, repair, reuse, revolutionary, rights, sustainably solidarity, volunteer

HFS patron Mark Thomas launched our Reuse Manifesto poster at our Mark Thomas & Friends fund-raising comedy night on Friday 25th May.

We worked with local artist and HFS team-member Pea Crabtree to design the poster and it was printed by Martel Colour Print in St Leonards.

Supporters were able to buy their own copy of the manifesto poster (A3) to take home from the comedy event, and you can pick up a copy from your local HFS store for the launch price of £5. We also have postcards with the same design for £1. All proceeds help the charity.

We’re back!

02/01/2018H F SBattle, Bexhill, furniture, Hastings, New Year, office furniture, open, recycle, reuse, Rother, secondhand, St Leonards

We’re back from our break and looking forward to helping you furnish your homes and offices in 2018.

Pop in to see us in Hastings or Bexhill:

Mon-Thurs 9.30-4.30

Fri 9.30-4

Sat 10-3

Bedhead Benches

28/04/2017H F Sbedhead, Bexhill, bright, carpentry, colours, furniture, garden, recycled, reuse, spring, upcycled, volunteers, wood, workshop

Our workshop team has been working on an exciting new project to reuse and upcycle unwanted bed-heads into fabulous benches for the home and garden.

Sometimes we collect bed frames that can’t be reused because parts are missing but we don’t want the wood to go to waste. These benches use up the heads, ends and slats of the bed-frames to make an attractive new piece of furniture.

It’s been a fun challenge for our workshop team. Our expert Ron has helped the volunteers to figure out how to reuse the wood and make strong sturdy bench seats. Our volunteers are local people who have enjoyed HFS courses and want to do more carpentry, restoration and painting as part of the team. Pauline, Heidi, Percival, Phil and Victor have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and we are really proud of the stunning results.

Each bench is unique. There are children’s benches as well as full-size and we have painted several in fun bright colours.

Child-size benches are £70 full price (£45 benefit discount price) and adult-size ones are up to £195 (£145 discount price).

The benches will be on sale at our Bexhill store from Friday 28th April.

back to school or college?

01/09/2016H F SBexhill, Hastings, office furniture, pupils, reuse, student discount, students, studying, working

Office furniture

HFS Bexhill has a huge Office Furniture department. Pick up an affordable reused desk, chair, filing cabinet and get your studies organised!

The store in London Road, Bexhill has a variety of items in stock, from small computer tables through to huge corner desks.

If you are a Full-Time student bring proof of your enrollment for 10% off + free local delivery (Hastings Borough or Rother District areas).

If your household receives means-tested benefits such as Working Tax Credit or Housing Benefit, bring proof of this for 30% off and free local delivery.

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pop-up bookshop needs a new home

10/08/2016H F SBexhill, books, charity, community project, empty shop, Pop-up shop, reading, reuse, volunteers

Our team of bookshop volunteers is still searching for a new home for the project in Bexhill.

The pop-up bookshop reused thousands of books and encouraged people to read. The friendly volunteers also provided a welcoming place for people to pop in for a chat. People gave donations for their books which raised funds for our craft and DIY sessions at local Refuges.

Meanwhile, the shop they used was kept open, used and aired and the owner quickly found a commercial tenant.

The team is looking for an empty shop in Bexhill to continue the project – please get in touch if you’re able to help.