Reflections From Our New Reuse Consortium Coordinator
December 2021 marked the month that the Circular Communities Scotland team waved goodbye to Lesley Campbell, our outgoing Reuse Consortium Coordinator, and welcomed Nicola Aeberli into the role. Lesley was in post for over three years, during which the Reuse Consortium went from strength to strength. [...]
Consortium Case Study in Social and Ecological Innovation
The Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium has been featured as a case study in ‘Clusters of social and ecological innovation in the European Union, perspectives and experiences’ which assesses ‘the role of clusters and similar forms of business cooperation in fostering the development of social economy’ [...]
Pilot takes off in Dumfries and Galloway
The Consortium is growing in strength all the time, enabling more local authorities and housing associations the opportunity to purchase quality reuse furniture and white goods. One of our newest members The Community Reuse Shop based in Stranraer has just started a pilot to provide the [...]
Aberdeen Furniture Leasing Scheme offers Reuse Option
In the last month, Aberdeen City Council has extended its use of the Reuse Consortium to offer customers the choice of reuse furniture through their Furniture Leasing Scheme. Over the last four years, Aberdeen City Council has used its Tenancy Support Fund to provide essential items [...]
Sustainable connections mean better furnishings for people experiencing homelessness
With a substantial demand for good quality reuse furniture, one of Scotland’s largest affordable housing and community organisations, Link, has chosen to work with the CRNS Reuse Consortium. Edinburgh based homelessness charity Four Square Scotland recently joined the Consortium to become the local supplier and a [...]
CRNS Consortium excels with new contract win
The CRNS Reuse Consortium was the highest scoring submission in the recent tender for a national framework contract with Scotland Excel to provide quality reuse furniture to Scotland’s local authorities and housing associations. Following four years of successful trading, the CRNS Reuse Consortium is now set [...]
Lockdown Conversations – Furnishing Temporary Accommodation
The Covid-19 lockdown created many challenges for third sector organisations across Scotland and our members have responded strongly and admirably to the crisis. Despite facing an almost overnight loss of trading income many community reuse and recycling organisations have been pivoting their efforts to support those [...]
Read our 2019 Impact Report
Our Consortium Impact Report published in 2019 demonstrates the value to Local Authorities of purchasing from the Reuse Consortium, and the impact this has made. We focus on the pilot with Aberdeenshire Council, and celebrate passing the £1million turnover mark. Read our Impact Report here