Evans Office Furniture - Recent Clearances and Stock Updates

• First and foremost, our responsible disposal policy underpins all that we do. 100% of items from clearances are either sold for re-use or broken down for ethical recycling. This is good for everyone, customers, clearance clients and the country as a whole. Nothing is burned, nothing goes to landfill.
• Offering free delivery makes life easier for customers and by planning routes carefully, can help the environment as one round trip in the van, making multiple drops can be much more energy efficient than having customers make numerous individual trips to and from our premises.
• Offering the widest possible variety is vitally important in the aim to make customers happy. We want everyone to be 100% pleased with their purchase, although sometimes, after big clearances, it takes a while to catalogue all the items on our website, so if you can't see what you need in our online shop just give us a call. We may well have just the thing waiting for its details to be uploaded.

This included making access to all items as clear as possible, removing every distracting item that was serving no purpose. That cull took care of odd fasteners, shelves and lengths of cable trunking that were serving no purpose, making sure that the progress of items in and out was as unimpeded as possible.

This also gave us the chance to make sure that every item of stock is offered for sale via our website, so that even if you can't make it to the shop, you can enjoy the same quality, choice and value as if you were there.

2. If the shop has been quiet in April, bookings for clearances have been anything but. The next couple of months will see us being very busy clearing offices for long standing clients as well as some exciting new ones. As always, this is going to give a healthy boost to the selection of top quality office furnishings to our customers online and personal visitors to the shop. We will look forward to welcoming you to either.

2. It is a matter of pride to us that our deliveries are not only prompt but are also free. The key to this is efficient route planning and vehicle deployment. As an example, there has been an increase in local customers making purchases for short run delivery. By adding a new, smaller van to the fleet, these can now be covered readily, leaving the larger vehicles for longer runs and multi-site drops.

Of course, Marco Polo doesn't work for us so we rely on Google Maps to help with making the route plans. Other online mapping services are available.

3. Seeing March draw to a close, the figures show that this has been yet another record breaking quarter. In respect of this we have to thank our customers for choosing to buy from us, and our superb team for maintaining the highest work ethic and readiness to go the extra mile to keep clients happy.

2. To make an even bigger impact on the choice and the range of office furniture you will find here, massive effort has gone into emptying our colleagues' warehouses, bringing the entire range under one umbrella. So far, in the first month, this has increased our stockholding by 10% and will put us on course to double the number of clearances carried out each year.

3. And finally... with the massive growth in stock, choice and value, along with the areas of operation growing, introducing new customers, more space has become a necessity. The next step in this programme of expansion is the opening of shop number two, watch this space for developments and all the news as it breaks.

2. Ostensibly for the kids, but just as enjoyable for us 'adults', the kitchen here has been converted into a Lego and Collectibles build and display room. There is a wide choice of absorbing and creative activity to engage the young mind. If they would rather enjoy passive entertainment or listen to music, there is now a large screen TV installed with YouTube playing.

2. This extremely busy period is great news if you are looking for office furniture. The year of 2024 is going to start with a huge range of high quality desks, office chairs, boardroom furniture and office storage ready for immediate delivery.

3. In the meantime, it is a chance for all of us to take a few days off to celebrate and relax, ready to spring forward into the new year with vigour and enthusiasm. May we take this opportunity to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful new year.

2. The source of recycled office furniture is of course, the clearances that we carry out. Largely the nature of these clearances helps to shape the choice of stock that we can offer. November's characteristic was a predominance of smaller office clearances. This is good news for choice as while the volume of items from each site is not so great, they were originally specified by a larger number of people, therefore, making the variety much wider for our customers.

3. One of the major contributing factors in the growth of sales over the last few months has been our new team member, 'H'. He has rapidly become the company's voice in social media channels. His efforts have really widened the audience for our recycling/re-using messages and opened up a shop window for all the office furniture products that we were not using to the full before he joined us.

1. With winter just around the corner, creature comforts for our customers and team members. While the three main display floors of our Ipswich shop have a very nice heating system, some of the smaller rooms are a bit out of range, making them feel rather more Stalingrad than Sierra Madre when there's a chill in the air. Portable heaters just didn't do the trick. This month central heating has been installed so you can now browse in comfort throughout the building.

2. While we were at it, the smaller showrooms and offices were re-organised and decorated. This gives more space for the ever-expanding product range and should help to enhance the showroom environment.

3. Customers visiting our showroom will find an ever-increasing choice of office furniture, so that they can pick the items which are perfect for their needs and budget. Well on our way to hitting the December target of 200 line items, our inventory now encompasses 170+ product lines. This is part of our long-term commitment to offer the widest choice, the highest quality and the best value in recycled office furniture.

1. Celebrating the passing of his first month with the team, Henry, AKA 'H' is making a real impact on sales here. Being the youngest member, H brings fresh dynamism and energy, along with his experience in office furniture to the goal of making sure that every customer gets office furniture which, like Baby Bear's porridge is just right for them. H has also made it even easier to find the items you need by opening up the world of Facebook market place for us.

2. Also with us for a month now is the replacement van. Already its extra capacity has made it possible to deliver more items to more locations on each trip. This cuts downthe number of trips, reduces fuel use and in turn keeps delivery costs lower so that we can continue to offer free delivery to many areas.

3. The office clearance activities are still keeping us very busy, both on behalf of new clients and old friends.This is great news for all our customers as it means even more choice oh high quality office furniture joins our range every day. The inventory currently stands at 140 line items, which we are aiming to increase to 200 by the end of the year.

2. Having taken a much needed summer break, returning to work brings the prospect of yet more record breaking sales and an ever growing portfolio of office furniture. With clearances, thus stock levels and available choices running at record levels, plus the experience and advice from our specialist team, we are more confident than ever that more organisations and home office users will be turning to us to find just what they need at great value prices.

3. As if in readiness for increased deliveries, after four and a half years, covering 220,000 miles, the time had come to replace our trusty delivery van. This also presented the opportunity to upsize the delivery capacity in order to delight even more customers with the personal nature of our delivery service. By offering free delivery, using only our own vehicles and personnel, we can be sure that the condition of office furniture on arrival will be every bit as good as when it left us.

2. Making some clear time in July also meant that the premises could have some attention to make sure that the customer experience is positive and uplifting. It is a matter of great pride to us that when customers visit us they come into a showroom that is clean, bright and above all interesting. It is also nice to know that essential systems like the heating and alarms are up to scratch too.

3. You can never start learning the essential life skills too young. That is why Jax, our 9 year old son has become the youngest member of staff. On days off, he joins us here, helping out while learning about deliveries, dealing with customers and how business works. By the time Jax is grown up, he will have had a great grounding if he wants to take over from Dad. As we all know what all work and no joy does, we have also built a Star Wars Lego building room where he (and some of us bigger kids) can exercise creative skills in between work sessions.

2. With all this new storage and new stock, comes even greater variety and value for our customers. The additional choice has resulted in more sales than ever. It's not rocket science, we have a simple philosophy here, the more stock we have, the more we can sell.

3. Not only has the volume of business continued to grow through the month of June, but the location of customers is spreading and becoming more diverse. This month there have been delivery trips to London and beyond, as well as a very pleasant drive out in the Cotswolds to drop off some office furniture. Customers everywhere appreciate value and this is coming through in the variety of businesses and locations that are producing all these lovely orders for us.

2. May was another extremely busy month in the Ipswich retail shop, with many familiar faces returning to become regular customers. Office seating is still a big seller for us and it is great to see people adding to their collection as needs change and grow. It is still very tough out there, not only in business but also in managing to keep up with the spiralling cost of living. We like to think that in recycling and re-using office furniture, we are doing our part to help with these issues, and with the number of returning clients growing daily, we must be doing something right…

2. This meant that there is now a healthy stock of very good condition used electric desks in our warehouse, which are being snapped up eagerly. Why use an electric height adjustable desk? There can be many reasons. For example in a huge office like the one the current (forgive the pun) stock came from, there are people of all sizes and shapes who need to be able to work in comfort. Even in a one man band they can bring comfort and health benefits by allowing the user to change posture during the day. At the highest setting they are just about right for most people to work standing up and are infitely adjustable to a low setting not much higher than a coffee table. Find out more at our online shop.

3. While all this has been happening, enquiries and bookings for office clearances have been pouring in, which will keep us well and truly on our toes way into the summer.

2. The presence in our store of celebrity cardboard cutouts continues to draw comment from customers. It is satisfying to know that their visit has been fun for them as well as providing great value in the serious items that they need for their office. This month, a number of items of Star Wars memorabilia hvae been added along with some fake black holes. The purpose of our business and products may be serious, but the atmosphere surrounding can still be fun and interesting for our visitors.

3.The trend in march for clearances moved toward a large number of smaller offices. This is great for our recycled office furniture customers as it helps to broaden the variety available from our online shop and our face to face outlet. Instead of putting into stock thousands of similar items, a large number of desks, chairs, cabinets and other items become available with a broad range of manufacturers and styles represented. This stock is changing all the time, so keep an eye on the online shop for the latest news.

2. One aspect of our service that always draws comment from customers is the free delivery policy. Customers are constantly saying that it makes a world of difference to them and they wonder how we do it. The answer is quite simply down to organisation and planning again. Even with a relatively small team, it is possible to plan deliveries in such a way that everyone gets their order without a long wait and wthout all the hassle of collecting for themselves. We also reckon that one vehicle on a well organised round trip is going to have a much smaller environmental impact than all our customers individually driving to the warehouse to collect. Everyone's a winner.

3. In keeping with our business with a smile policy, another celebrity has joined the ranks of cardboard cutouts wecloming our customers. This month, Conor McGregor has joined us and is standing opposite Tyson Fury. The 'Cardboard Cast' always gets a good reaction from visitors and we hope can help make shopping for office furniture less of a chore and more fun.

2. They say that efficiency is only organised laziness, which up to a point we can see. However, the real value of increasing efficiency to us is the freeing up of time to get on with the really important things like making our customers happy. In order to achieve a better balance of activities, January was a month for taking a good look at how time could be saved on administration. Judging by the fabulous success enjoyed this month, it looks like the exercise was worthwhile.

3. As part of the efficiency drive, storage and warehousing techniques have come under the microscope too. With a very strong policy of maximising choice and availability, the aim is to increase the choice of stock by 50% in coming months, so space and retrieval systems will be at the forefront of achieving this. Once again, the measure of success is in the number of happy customers so we hope you find the changes to your liking

This is also good news for all our customers at the warehouse as stock levels and the choice available has been greatly boosted by this level of clearance activity.

2. Growth plans have also been influenced by the ever increasing clearance workload. Currently, it is highly likely that a second warehouse site will need to be opened early in the new year. This could well also include additional retail floor space. This will also give more opportunities to enhance the experience of visitors to our premises. Look out for more art work and more life size celebrity cutouts to make your visit fun as well as practical.

3. Looking forward to 2023, the scene looks set for another very busy year. There are already 13 clearances booked before the end of February and it looks like there will be a lot more to come. At this point, may we wish all our customers a very happy and successful 2023.

The life size celebrity cutouts in our showroom always get a great reaction from customers when they visit. The latest addition to the 'celebrity assistants' is Kevin Hart, American comedian. We are currently looking for a life size cutout of the Rock to go along side him

2. With all these new contacts and accreditations, it is important to be ready for the influx of new and more varied orders by making sure that the stock levels are adequate. Over the last four months, we have increased the overall stock holding by over 50%, and continue to find innovative storage solutions to make sure that every inch of space is maximised.

3. The choice of chairs desks, cabinets etc. runs into hundreds of options for each in our warehouse and I can personally guarantee that whatever you need for your office furniture, you will be able to find it here.

4. Lastly this month, a reminder that when you do find what you are looking for in our range, you can benefit from free delivery anywhere in England.

2. We must be doing something right, as month on month, sales personal callers and online customers are still increasing steadily and we are well on target to exceed last year.

3. To gain more business from the public sector, this month saw our first advertising as an accredited supplier to KALTZ, who are public sector procurement managers with a responsibility to achieve "best value" with taxpayer's money. Their role is to attract and introduce preferred suppliers like ourselves to make sure that the budgets of NHS, schools, colleges and universities are spent with those who offer the best value. We are proud to be involved in this initiative and through our promotional partner, the Village Websmith, we are making outgoing introductory contacts with facilities managers and purchasers throughout the health and education systems. We are confident that this will bring us in valuable new business.

2. Slightly less expected but immensely gratifying nonetheless, was the clearance of tons of racking plus a large number of items from the kitchen and canteen. Once again the flexibility of the team has to be praised, taking in their stride a substantial amount of additional work and not being in the slightest bit fazed by it.

2. With the challenge of getting ready for such a huge influx of office furniture for recycling, July had to be used carefully to make sure all other contracts were completed and to clear the diary for the work ahead. Once again, the team gave an object lesson in pulling together for anyone who may have been watching. All contracts were completed, stock was efficiently organised and the warehouse was ready with plenty of space.

3. Meanwhile, back in the Ipswich shop, the ongoing facelift was completed with the fitting of a new electric roller shutter door in black to match the colour scheme. This will make getting in and out much easier for us, so you can be sure that if you are the first person to arrive on a given day, we will be ready for you, not all puffed out from winding up the old manual door, which used to get stuck a lot!

2. With strong sales throughout the first half of 2022 and a more spacious feel to the showroom, our focus now for the rest of the year is to concentrate on increasing stock levels of high quality office furniture. This should be helped by the high level of clearance work we are still being called on to do, with many clients' schedules being set back through covid disruption earlier in the year.

2. Having a nice smooth floor makes it easier for us to move stock in and out, as well as making the visit a nicer experience for our customers. To celebrate and make life even easier, the showroom now boasts a new black electric shutter, carrying through the neutral tones used inside, to the outside.

2. April has been a madly busy month for office clearances in Ipswich. Mostly, these have generated high class stock in small volumes, but then Ipwich is a small city. Large or small we love them all. Every clearance is an opportunity to recycle some top quality office chairs, desks, cabinets and other furniture to keep costs under control for our customers in businesses both large and small.

3. Possibly as a result of the high levels of stock and the vast choice on offer, our shop in Ipswich has been selling more than ever this month. There is more stock than ever being diverted from clearances in London, with an 18 tonne lorry to unload just about every week. This is great news for our customers as every delivery enhances the level of choice and the value that we can offer to home workers, small businesses and increasingly the NHS, whose local sites are enjoying the great value of recycled office furniture.

2. As a result the sales of pedestals and units both from our Ipswich shop and online outlet have gone through the roof this month. Customers can now choose from over 150 lines of stock in these categories so there really is something for everyone there. If you are in the area, please call in and see for yourself, or if not, visit our online shop.

2. The high end designer chairs are still in very great demand and selling well to both home and office users. There seems to be an air of renewed confidence now in the corporate market with many businesses making exciting plans and buying in furniture to be ready for new opportunities and expansion. It seems that there is a genuine desire to put the pandemic behind us and get going properly? Boom after bust!

3. There is certainly a busy period on the horizon. With many large office clearances queueing up to be done, we are champing at the bit for a time when we can once again gain access. It looks like there are not going to be enough hours in the day after April, but with the great team we have working with us, there is going to be a lot of pulling together, so as usual, clearances will be completed in time and clients will be happy. There will also be some great new stock arriving at the showrooms.

2. The word continues to spread across East Anglia with regular delivery trips out through Norfolk and Suffolk to keep our delivery team busy. With their regular workload covering Essex, London and surrounding counties, it is great to see them out every day, taking office furniture to its new home.

3. With this continued interest and sales levels increasing, investment in the showroom has continued to make sure that the customer experience is a comfortable, happy and above all fruitful search for the best in office furniture at affordable prices. More changes to the lighting in the building are planned for next month, so watch this space.

2. Now that there are two retail sites and 2 online sales outlets, making sure that stock is constantly monitored and updated is vital to ensure consistent offers between all possible outlets. Evans Office Furniture in London is our sister outlet mainly operating in business to business sales at the heart of the city. The stock in London is a duplicate of the stock in Ipswich, with everything being drawn from the same 'pool', which is updated daily to make sure every shop window we have is bang up to date and that everything on display is actually available at all times.

3. This involves strict discipline in stock management, and sophisticated systems to make sure that every sale removes the corresponding stock from every site. to compare, take a look at the online outlets in Ipswich and in London

2. With this aim in mind, the investment in stock this month has bee substantial. By naking sure there is a great choice of top quality office seats, desks and cabinets from the top names in the business, more visitors to our web site and our retail outlet have been able to find just what they need on their first visit. In world where time is money, this is vitally important, so not only do our customers get highly attractive pricing, they also get back to work in their new comfy office with a minimum of disruption.

3. The time saving element is also helped by our regular deliveries throughout the area. With the retail outlet being based in Ipswich, access to eastern areas is very easy. Our vans are now making regular deliveries to Norwich, taking in all the coastal towns on the way, so nobody has to wait long to get the office furniture they chose, whether online or face to face.

2. As an interesting side effect of the Covid 19 pandemic, we are seeing a change in the chair covering materials demanded by our customers. There has been a big swing toward glossy fabrics that can be treated with antiviral wipes and sanitising gels. This has been noticeable among our NHS customers and all who have a fast turnover of visitors needing seats. In order to satisfy demand, we are keeping as much of this type of stock as possible.

3. The demand for clearances continues to grow like wildfire, with this month seeing our biggest ever demand to quote for clearing office space. with lockdowns coming to an end in many areas, there is a need to get office spaces working again. A good proportion of this is to satisfy the needs of a continued increase in home working and a trend within offices to populate less densely, with fewer desks and more open breakout areas. It is still sad to see that some businesses didn't survive the impact of the pandemic, and all we can hope is that the people concerned re-surface in new businesses, possibly of their own.

2. This month, clearance work in London has picked up a lot too. This is where deadlines are tightest and the pace of work has to be flat out. We love this aspect of working in the capital, and see it rather like having a gym membership where you get paid for working out. These are the jobs that keep us fit. It is also very satisfying to get the job done amidst the hustle and bussle of the big city. Exercise, satisfaction and gainful employment all in one. It just doesn't get any better than that.

2. Driven by continued demand from home working and personal callers at our shop, we have increased stock levels by some 20% to ensure that there is sufficient choice of style and colour available at all times. Customers are really welcoming the choice that there is in our range now and that happiness is reflected in increased sales. It is really great to see this virtuous spiral driving sales upwards, making more customers happy.

3. Likewise, clearance work continues at an all time high. The greater volume of work is still in London but this month, substantial clearances have also been completed in Norwich and Leeds, so we are definitely seeing a nationwide upward trend.

2. The clearance side of our business has also grown exponentially this month. With levels of calls higher than we have ever known in 31 years of trading, the clearance team is working flat out every day. Some of the clearances being carried out now were those who missed out before lockdown but the greater part of this work is coming from regular and new corporate customers investing resources in moves, refurbishments and relocations.

3. July's biggest clearance was ABTA, who must be busier than ever with the level of travel disruption that has been and is still being experienced by the UK travel industry. There is little surprise that they are creating extra capacity.

2.The personal service of our business is also gaining us many new friends and customers, from all over the UK. This is greatly helped by our policy of delivering free of charge wherever possible. Whether your order is for a single chair or a complete office suite, the level of customer focus and attention is the same. Quite simply, no hassle with third parties or couriers, just a personal service from us to you. We see this as a major contributing factor to our zero returns rate. It is simple to provide an error free service when you accept responsibility at every stage.

3. Whether you live in a big city, or a small village, you are covered. From our Ipswich facility recent deliveries of hundreds of chairs and other items of office furniture have taken us to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Maidenhead and St Ives (not the one just round the corner either). Wherever you are (or the friends that you tell), you can be sure of great value and reliable service from a major, high quality used office furniture supplier.

2. With many of the larger sites still inaccessible to us, the month hasn't seen any large-scale office clearances. However, a large number of smaller clearances have kept us busy in places where access was possible. This has also provided a great range of stock for recycling through the Ipswich retail store, which re-opens on April 2nd. We are certainly hoping that this is going to be the last of the Corona virus lockdowns. Business needs some normality and stability now.

2. With many people working from home during the pandemic, sales of high quality office chairs are still going strong. Additionally, we are seeing quite a lot of interest from businesses planning for when they can re-open, and purchasing in advance. Luckily, our stocks of designer chairs are still plentiful with a great choice to fit all shapes and sizes, so bring on the boom after the bust, you will find us ready?

3. Ready to spring into action! For so long now, access has been impossible to many buildings that are in need of office clearances and re-organisation, quite a queue has built up. When April comes around and work is once again possible, we anticipate being very busy indeed. Many regular customers are in touch frequently to make sure that their urgent clearances will be carried out on the required date. It is going to be a challenge to keep up, but with a dedicated, flexible team, we will rise to that challenge while fitting in a few inevitable last-minute requests for good measure

2. It is also very satisfying to see the response our retail outlet is getting locally. Through word of mouth and targetted advertising, the word has spread, keeping our delivery team busy with more frequent trips across Norfolk and Suffolk. Thanks to the continuing support of customers locally and in our heartland of Essex, London and surrounding counties, despite the health crisis, business is looking good for 2021.

3. With such strong interest in the retail outlet, we have been taking the opportunity to further improve the visitor experience with changes to the layout, making it easier to locate just the item in comfort. This month also sees the start of a major upgrade to the lighting in our building, all of which should be completed in February

2. Hard on the heels of that job came the biggest office clearance of the whole month. Mintel called on us to clear hundreds of workstations, including a large number of designer items that made the job really interesting. On of the most fascinating pieces was a full size copy of Dr Who's phone box. That is now in pride of place in our own office. The people at Mintel were great to work with and there is a good vibe in the company as unlike many others in London, this clearance was to help move more people into their own office, with many others working in their homes.

3. A regular client of ours, a large IT company also called us back in December. In case of a sudden need to devolve staff to home work, the company had held back hundreds of chairs. As it turned out, the need never materialised so the chairs were removed for recycling and resale.

4. As it worked out, a large influx of chairs in December was a very timely thing. Demand for office furniture, particularly chairs for those finding themselves working from home continued to be very high. Such an increase in our online stock meant that we were able to keep up with the demand whilst offering even wider choice and better than ever value. With free delivery still possible in the majority of cases, we have been kept very busy making sure that people who now have to work from home can do so in comfort.

2. With the trend for working at home being still very strong, chairs and small desks are still selling very well. Also, due to the great value available from our range of recycled office chairs, customers are snapping up the higher specification chairs, realising that this is somewhere they are going to have to sit for long periods, so comfort and proper support are vital. People are delighted when they find that they can buy a far superior product for the price of something very ordinary. Add free delivery to that and everyone's a winner!

2. The major clearance this month was for a tech firm in St Pauls, London. The company thoughtfully held back the chairs for distribution to their staff working at home. A pattern is definitely appearing here! That left hundreds of desks and dozens of meeting room sets to be recycled. Another spin-off from the current health crisis is that London is now so much easier to get around. The huge recycling task was carried out easily and quickly thanks to the lack of traffic and the easy access to recycling partners in the capital.

This has meant a massive increase in the clearance workload from offices of ten desks right up to some of the biggest office spaces in London. It has also meant that some work has been in re-distributing the furniture from an office to smaller units and employees' homes, as well as re-using and recycling office furniture. Luckily, with a close-knit team of highly dedicated people, we have been able to be flexible enough to adapt to whatever was needed by our clients.

2. Small desks and office chairs for use of home workers has been very much the flavour of the month again. With the crazy times that we are all going through, this is much to be expected, and doesn't look like changing for the foreseeable future. Having seen how many buildings in London are now standing empty, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the city as a workplace has changed for ever. The news reports may say that the traffic is increasing again, but from what we see that is mostly service vehicles and people who don't want to use public transport. The stations are empty, with hardly anyone coming or going, even at peak times.

London's Square Mile is currently the world's least lived in city district. My prediction is for that to change in the wake of all that is currently happening and the balance will shift from commercial to residential use. Wherever you live though, if you find yourself working from home, our great choice and free national delivery mean that you don't have to labour in discomfort. Call us for the latest stocks of ergonomic office furniture at home.

2. The market for designer chairs still seems to be very buoyant, with literally hundreds of top name chairs coming in and going out. Even though money is universally tight at the moment, the importance of spending your work time sitting comfortably with a degree of style amounts to good value. Of course, our highly competitive prices help too.

2. "We can't work on a flat chair at our kitchen table anymore" is one of the quotes that we are very commonly hearing.

3. July has been a month for small clearances in London. Having received hundreds of enquiries, mostly driving through the deserted streets is still quite eerie, making our capital seem like a ghost town. There has still been healthy interest from corporates needing clearances as a part of their programmes to expand or move.

The most heartening sector to see growing is the new startup businesses. Even in these troubled, strange times, it is great to know that the entrepreneurial spirit is still strong, bringing new businesses to the market place, with their principals working from home. We firmly believe that it is this kind of vision, confidence and imagination that will help lead us out of the current economic slump.

2. With all of that going on, May gave us a massive kickstart. In addition to the surge in home working, Integro Insurance, one of our regular clients commissioned us to clear another huge office space for them. There have been many other projects started this month too. Sadly, some of these have been to clear space for those who didn't survive the lockdown. Hopefully, the people liberated from those roles will be part of the new wave of small, home based businesses that is burgeoning. Other clearances have been started because companies are realising that they can operate remotely and some of the enforced home workers will have their lives changed permanently, which is cutting down on the amount of space required, bringing us clearance work and new stock for recycling to home users.

Even when times are as bad as this, there can still be benefits to be gained in the long term and changed working patterns seems to be one of the best of these.

2. Retail sales and interest have surged at our Ipswich outlet too. One particular customer that it is great to see regularly is our local NHS. By using recycled rather than new office furniture, the savings amount to thousands of pounds that the health service can put to far better use. They have realised that from a quality point of view there is no need to buy new, the average price from us is about one third of new, and there is no lead time with most deliveries taking place on the day of order. We are proud to be helping in our way and thank the local NHS team for supporting us as a fellow local business.

3. Norlfolk has been a particularly successful area this month. We have been advertising and promoting throughout the county, which is yielding great sales success. This is great for our team as not only are we happy for the business and making people happy with great value, but it gives an opportunity to see the local holiday towns and beauty spots in the early summer sunshine, as well as a chance to grab some of the famous local fish and chips on the way home. Everyone's a winner!

However, with the number of people suddenly finding themselves having to work from home, many have appreciated our free delivery service for office furniture throughout the UK.

Where key organisations have carried on working and needed extra capacity or a re-organisation, we have been offering contact free delivery services throughout and will continue to do so until travel restrictions are lifted.

2. With the easing of travel restrictions, it is all guns blazing here for the backlog of office clearances that has built up while we were all locked down. It is extremely gratifying to see not only our regular clients coming back to us, but also a whole raft of new customers have been calling to arrange the clearances they need. Thge first really big clearance of the month has just started opposite the Bank of England. This is providing hundreds of items for re-use and recycling.

3. With a more normal business horizon now, we wish good luck to everyone picking up the pieces for the future of their business.

2. With the office clearances on hold and the retail shop being closed. Like everyone, we have had to adapt to the new circumstances. As well as delivering office furniture to those now forced to work at home, we have mainly been supporting key industries, the ones without which there would be no essential supplies. Farmers, food processing plants, shipping and transport industries are all working as hard as, if not harder than ever to make sure the couuntry is fed.

Helped by the policy of free UK delivery, introduced last October, sales through eBay Business should continue to grow. There is a wide range of stock already listed with more being added daily, so if you are in need of great value office furniture, take a look at our eBay items. We are hoping that this is going to prove a great asset in recycling high quality, previously owned office furniture.

The UK has seen a big shift in attitudes to used and recycled office furniture. With focus on corporate responsibility for waste and recycling, many of the largest comapnies are now buying used instead of new. Every item is refurbished to as new standard yet still sells at half the price of new. This is great news for the companies involved as it saves them money while increasing the public perception of their environmental friendliness. It is also great for the planet, cutting down on waste and manufacturing pollution, and of course, great news for us as it will keep us busy clearing, recycling, re-using and refurbishing for a long time to come.

The client was so impressed with the efficiency of that clearance, that they called us back in for what turned out to be the busiest start we have had in any year. Starting on January 2^nd, both jobs took three weeks to complete and all the items were successfully recyclced, re-used and re-sold via our nationwide network and our increasingly useful retail outlet in Ipswich.

It was very hard work but immensely satisfying to get the job done on time so that the owner could get on with the building's refurbishment immediately in the new year. Needless to say, we all enjoyed our Christmas Dinner and a couple of days doing very little.

The furniture that we collect from clearances all over the country comes back here for sorting, cataloguing and re-homing to help businesses keep their costs down and for society as a whole to reduce waste.

2. November was also a busy month for many smaller clearances of 50 ? 100 positions. This is a great, fun part of our business. It brings us into closer contact with our clients and takes us to exciting new towns. Every couple of days through the month, we had new ares to explore and new people to meet. Variety is the spice of life and all that!

2. The big clearances carried on throughout October too. Again, there were occasions when two or three big clearances were being carried out concurrently. On a rough estimation, our total unit recycling of office furniture items in the last three months amounts to some 20,000 pieces.

This is especially pleasing at a time when so much public focus is being brought to bear on the matters of ecologically sustainable living and working. By constantly recycling these items along the line, a huge amount of waste is prevented. Much of that furniture would have gone to the tip and been broken up had it not been for our customers giving a new lease of life and purpose to all these pieces.

It is also highly likely that when these pieces of furniture have been outgrown by their new owners, that they will find their way back to us, to be recycled for another user, thereby saving the waste and pollution of them having to buy new.

Of course, this was a huge challenge, but thanks to the hard work and dedication of our team, all the works were finished ahead of schedule.

2. Our Ipswich office furniture sales operation continues to go from strength to strength. This month, thanks to continuous campaigning on the part of our sales team, what started off as a job to supply furniture to a castle in Devon, led to our being appointed the preferred national supplier for the National Trust.

Because all our customers get free delivery wherever they are in the UK, our sales team had some other interesting travels this month. Even if you only need one item, the delivery is still free, so this month saw us delivering office furniture to small villages as well as apartments in the middle of London, Birmingham and Manchester.

We were also called in to undertake major clearances for two large London Colleges.

The retail shop in Ipswich is now buzzing and with all those schools needing to replace or top-up furniture, we have established relationships with education authorities all over the country to offer great value on recycled furniture, as well as a discount structure for education and free delivery throughout the country. This proved highly successful, not only keeping us busy throughout the holidays, but right up to the present, orders are still being despatched to schools and colleges.

Sustainability is the goal of very many local authorities and government departments, not to mention businesses and private individuals, who need great quality office furniture while avoiding the environmental cost of buying new. We are proud to play our part in helping businesses and government departments achieve greater sustainability.

2. Distance is no object when it comes to getting the job done. This month saw us called up to Edinburgh to clear over 800 work stations of office furniture for a national bank in Edinburgh. The work took a whole week of long days, but was completed on time, leaving a very happy client with cleared offices. We were made to feel extremely welcome in our Edinburgh digs and had a great time exploring the city in the evenings.

2. June wasn't so busy in the Ipswich retail shop but that gave us a great opportunity for a re-organisation. With three floors all bursting with great office furniture, there was a fair bit of sorting out to be done. The end result of this, along with recycling some old stock, is that it is much easier for visitors to browse the stock and find just what they need. Call in and try it for yourself. There are over 2000 chairs, 1000 desks and hundreds of storage units along with various office furniture items to browse and a relaxed, comfortable layout in which to browse them.

3. We are now proud to be the largest stockists of used office furniture in the whole of Suffolk & Norfolk.

2. Time flies! The Ipswich retail outlet which we took over is now in its 16th month of operation and going strong. The word is being spread now with radio advertising on IPWICH 102, the area's leading independent radio station. This is providing us with lots of good feedback & sales. Also, look out for our large road billboard sign put on the A11 in Norfolk, aimed at increasing brand awareness in to Norfolk and beyond.

The last phase was the biggest, comprising over four hundred desks and three hundred matching units. As always, the job was completed in good time and without fuss. It has been great to be an integral part of the Hounslow Council team in this move and we wish them well in their new premises.

2. We also found time in March to give our retail premises a complete facelift, so in addition to great deals on previously owned office furniture, you can now relax and enjoy the new surroundings. The walls now display much in the way of new artwork for enjoyment and as conversation pieces. There are also new Circus art deco signs to enjoy, pictures of which can be seen on our Google My Business page. We hope that you like them.

Half way through the month, we had an urgent call from Justeat.co.uk who were moving up a floor in their Borehamwood office building. With a fairly tight deadline to meet, there was a heavy workload, removing hundreds of workstations, chairs and office cabinets for recycling through our used office furniture outlet. The job was completed well within schedule so that Justeat were able to hand the old office back to their landlord. The company was happy, as were the staff who now moved into their pristine new space with nice white desks, colourful chairs and breakout areas. Everyone's a winner!

2. Then, as happens from time to time, an unexpected massive project appeared. CMED Clinical Group was moving from one building to another on the same site in Horsham, Sussex. This task involved recycling over 500 items of office furniture, as well as finding new homes for over twenty fireproof cabinets. The job was completed on time and all the items, including the fireproof cabinets were recycled or rehomed.

2. There was one large clearance this month though, for SBH Page Read. The task was to clear a very large Hertfordshire office block in readiness for a new occupier. Luckily, the building was not in use and we were given the keys in good time, which meant we were able to work hard without interruption. As a result, the clearance was finished ahead of schedule, making another client happy.

2. In an example of same day service, Olive Communications called us at short notice to clear one of their old offices in High Wycombe. The job was started on the day of the call and completed in just three days. Not bad for an office that had furniture and equipment for over 100 staff. Luckily we have the resources to clear, recycle and ethically dispose of large volumes of office funiture quickly, even at short notice if required.

Mostly the work was clearing smaller offices of 20-30 people where either all the furniture had been updated, or where staff had been moved up into larger offices. It is just as important to do a great job for a small customer moving a few dozen items as it is on the larger clearances. Make everyone delighted and you never know where you may get a call from next.

As the building hadn't been redecorated for some 20 years, the first steps in this ground-up facelift were in repainting each floor in modern colours, which, in itself, made a massive difference to the look and feel of the building. The studio was refurbished to take the most accurate and appealing photographs, which were posted to our web site in order to make sure that it was completely up to date and accurate.

The many positive comments from visitors during August were a sure fire sign that the improvements were not only welcome aesthetically, but were also making it easier for customers to find what they want. Water dispensers have been installed throughout the building to make sure that the health and well being aspects are well served, particularly in the hot weather that the country has been enjoying recently.

To help visitors find their way here, 6 metre flags have been erected at the front of the building. The next work is concentrated on the exterior with new walls to the front and improved signage to emphasise the exciting and comprehensive nature of the business, providing recycling services throughout the country.

2. As if to reinforce they power of the 'buy local' ethos, Birketts, the solicitors who acted for us in the purchase of the Ipswich shop, called us in to clear their old offices. The company has just moved into new premises and needed clearance of furniture and equipment that formerly served their 200 plus staff members. This was a nice, easy job for us as the people had already moved, so the place was empty and we could get on with the job at full speed.

3. Construction company, Wilmott Dixon provided the biggest clearance job of July for us. With two phases of refurbishment to complete in their Hitchin offices, the company called us in to help with phase one. We are all looking forward to phase two?