Over £5.2 million worth of donations from the Warp It reuse and redistribution community have been given to charities in the UK and abroad. The level smashes the target of reaching £5 million set at the end of last year. 

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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s sustainability and reuse work has received an internal environmental award, while saving £9,500 in just one year through the Warp It reuse and redistribution system.

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The University of Cambridge has saved £418,000 in just six years by using the Warp It reuse system.

The organisation joined Warp It in 2016 and during this time has extensively redistributed old and unwanted stationery, office furniture, and lab equipment throughout the university and to local charities.

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Swansea University has made £19,000 in savings, avoided three tonnes of waste and 9,000 kilograms of carbon since signing up with the Warp It reuse community at the beginning of 2022.

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A charity working relieve poverty and sickness across Africa is seeking unwanted medical equipment to distribute to the continent’s rural hospitals.

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A charity helping people escape conflict in war-torn counties is appealing for life-saving medical equipment and other supplies.

British charity Refugease has been organising emergency evacuations of vulnerable people from Ukraine since the conflict escalated in February 2022. The charity, which distributes supplies from two small vans, has joined the Warp It reuse community to ramp up donations to support its vital work.

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The Guy and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has donated nearly 1,700 hospital uniforms, worth £25,000, to the Sylvia Lanka Foundation for use in hospitals in Sri Lanka.

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The University of Glasgow is on track to hit a million pounds in financial savings as it enters its eighth year using the Warp It redistribution system.

The university has recorded total savings of £929,740 and has stopped at least 3,959 items from going to landfill since it joined Warp It in 2014. Now it has set a target to reach one million pounds by the end of 2022.

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The Warp It redistribution system has seen a surge in membership renewals during the last three months, highlighting the ongoing value of reuse and sustainability for many organisations.

Over 30 organisations, including local authorities, NHS Trusts, colleges, and universities in the UK and abroad, have renewed their commitment to ensure office furniture, fixtures and fittings, equipment, uniforms, and many other items are rehomed rather than sent to landfill.

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