"Most furniture is manufactured to last a lifetime and as a result, furniture very rarely wears out.

Obsolescence through rapidly changing fashions contributes to the growing mountain of redundant furniture. The scope for furniture recycling is huge. To realise this potential work must focus on research, development and the marketing of existing waste re-utilisation initiatives."

'Sustainable Waste Management;
The Stakeholders' Guide',
Environment Council, June 2000

Established by local people in 1994, FN! is a registered charity. It collects donated furniture and household effects and makes them available at as low a cost as possible to people in need throughout Sussex.

FN! exists to put your unwanted furniture to good use, to prevent re-usable materials going to waste and to help thousands of people create and maintain a decent, safe home environment. We also collect office furniture and can help equip voluntary and community groups.

Social housing doesn't end with just a roof over your head; we believe the right to choose how you furnish your home is a basic 'quality of life' issue. Recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Shelter and Crisis has all emphasised that the lack of furniture is one of the key reasons for the failure of homeless resettlements in first tenancies. Many thousands of low income households cannot possibly meet the financial burden associated with equipping a home.

FN! therefore aims to offer as wide a choice of good quality furniture as is possible. If you are on a low income, we will only charge you what it costs us to supply what you choose: that means we are simply the cheapest way of furnishing your home!