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Are you having a new year clear-out? 

Don’t throw out your old electricals. Donate them to Encore Re-use – Ashbourne’s furniture reuse project.

At this time of year, we tend to cast our minds to having a good old clear out. You’ll probably find that some of the things you want to get rid of are old electricals. Things that still work but perhaps you’ve replaced them with something more up-to-date. We tend to stick old, working electricals in a cupboard somewhere, up in the loft or stashed away in the garage. They sit there until they’ve become obsolete or worse still, eventually get thrown away.

Encore Re-use in Ashbourne is a furniture reuse charity that is crying out for good quality, working household electricals and appliances. Donate your vacuums, kettles, radios, microwaves, fridges, washing machines and other working items that you no longer use to the project and they will find them a new home.  Everything’s tested for safety before being sold from their showroom on Henmore Trading Estate on Mayfield Road at very reasonable prices. Families on low incomes, students or just people on the look-out for a bargain can benefit – anyone’s welcome.

The benefits of this kind of recycling are clear – you don’t end up with all your storage space taken up with these unwanted items, the projects can sell them on to people who need them. And the bonus is – valuable products are given a longer life – they don’t all end up in landfill.

Encore is a charity and it costs around £120,000 per year to keep going. They are self-sustaining, covering their running costs from sales, but manager, John Howells admits that it is getting harder.“The tough economic times mean that people are not buying or donating items as much. We need good quality, resalable items that people will take pride in – that is the only way we can keep going.”

Large electrical items are covered by a collections service. Please take smaller items to the shop:

Encore Re-Use, Henmore Trading Estate, Mayfield Road, Ashbourne, DE6 1AS

Open Tuesday to Friday 9.30am-4.30pm, Saturday 9.30am-2.30pm.

From 28 January also open on Mondays between 9.30 and 4.30pm.

Tel: 01335 300907 .  www.encorereuse.org.uk

Encore is unable to accept large commercial or industrial items,car batteriesm,chest freezers, electric fires and heaters,electric blankets or TVs.

Broken Electricals can be taken to your nearest household waste recycling centre to be recycled.