Surplus NHS supplies find new life helping those in need

London Metropolitan University has donated over 3,670 items ranging from pens, files, paper and labels to support a community association’s quest to give 550 pupils in a local school stationery sets.

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An international charity working to empower the poor by providing food, shelter, education and medical aid has distributed essential furniture among rural hospitals abroad with donations sourced from the Warp It community.

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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust is maximising the opportunity to reuse office furniture and equipment as it relocates a Chesterfield-based vaccination centre onto one of its hospital sites.

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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), has saved £88,088 in the last financial year alone using the Warp It redistribution system.

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A charity working to educate, empower and improve the health of women and girls in West Africa has furnished schools in the area with donations sourced from Warp It system.

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The University of Tasmania is aiming to be the one of the most sustainable universities on the planet. 

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MedAID are a charity on a mission to bridge the gap between surplus medical devices and equipment and the shortage of medical equipment in resource-limited countries.

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Our team here at Warp It recently welcomed some incredible news, news that really puts us on a global stage.

The ‘University Impact Rankings 2019’ was released by the ‘World University Rankings’ and looks at many of the Sustainable Development Goals. It featured data on more than 200 universities from more than 56 countries around the world. ‘SDG 12: responsible consumption and production’ is the SDG most relevant to Warp It due to the nature of our business- making assets last longer, therefore reducing resource use. 

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We are joined today by Sam Kirby-Bray, the Sustainability Commissioning Officer at Shropshire Council. Sam is their Warp It lead, and handles a number of other important responsibilities in his role. We’re keen to talk to him about their reuse project, which launched to all staff in March 2019.

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