KFR Operations Manager Dan Thompson at the extended warehouse in Devizes A CORONAVIRUS fund grant has helped a furniture recycling charity stay in operation after its revenue plummeted during the lockdown. KFR in Devizes was awarded £9,500 from Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund to help with running costs. The fund has distributed more than £1.1 million through more than 260 grants. The group, on the Hopton Industrial Estate, collects and refurbishes more than 150 tonnes of unwanted furniture from all over the county each year and then sells it at low cost. In the last year it has also given more than 150 pieces of furniture to victims of domestic abuse, people in extreme poverty and rough sleepers who have been given a home.
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A long-term solution to food poverty - New pantry opens in city centre THE Salisbury Pantry has now opened in its permanent new home in the city centre. Organised by the city council’s Communities Team, the pantry was originally operating out of the Friary Community Centre and Bemerton Heath Centre, with the support of Anybody Can Cook. It has now moved to Catherine Street - where the the old lighting workshop used to be - and has been open to new and existing members since Tuesday (April 20). The Communities Team are now running the shop as part of a franchise operation run by Church Action on Poverty called ‘My Local Pantry’ who help people set up food shop based-schemes in their area.
MORE young people from north and West Wiltshire can boost their confidence by learning to sail, thanks to a coronavirus grant to a popular club. West Wilts Youth Sailing Association has been awarded £5,000 from Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund to buy two new dinghies to replace ageing boats that are almost beyond repair. The fund has distributed more than £1.1 million through more than 260 grants. The pandemic has been just the latest upheaval for the Westbury Lake club after a serious fire six years ago and then being forced to move home. Juley Simmonds, the association’s vice commodore, said: “Thieves broke in and stole the outboard motors from our safety boats and then set fire to a container.