The Reuse Consortium is keen to extend a huge thank you to all of our Consortium members, local authorities and housing associations who signed to show their support for our parent brand Circular Communities Scotland’s ‘Policy Paper for Scotland’s Circular Economy’. Circular Communities Scotland and Reuse [...]

The Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium is delighted to announce our best ever year of trading, helping us save over one million kilograms of furniture since our inception.  The Reuse Consortium achieved its best year of trading ever in the financial year 2021-2022, with purchasing reaching over [...]

Perth & Kinross Council have decided to become a regular purchaser through the Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium following a successful 1.5-month pilot with Transform Community Development.   During the pilot, 548 kg of furniture were diverted from landfill (equivalent to 1.45 tonnes of CO2), 14 low-income [...]

Circular Communities Scotland’s Reuse Consortium is proud to facilitate meaningful relationships between our consortium members, who provide quality reuse furniture and white goods, and Local Authorities and Housing Associations, who furnish properties for community members across Scotland. Consortium member New Start Highland and The Highland Council’s [...]

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. [...]

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’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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